So if you hadn’t heard by now, The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm and therefore owns Star Wars.  The internet basically exploded for the hour after the announcement.  But now that the dust is slowly starting to settle down, everyone’s starting to ask a few more questions and wonder what this means for the Star Wars universe as a whole.  If you are interested, our friends over at Tosche Station are doing a live podcast to discuss their take on things.  However, I wanted to take a few minutes to share my own thoughts and feelings about this news.

A lot of us were doing a very good impression of this gif. There were tears and screaming and jumping up and down. Truly, Troy speaks for all of us.

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Now that I’ve had time to think about it, I’ve determined that I have mixed feelings.  Don’t get me wrong.  I think this is a good thing but I have a few reservations in regards to some of the information I’ve heard but let’s start with the good things first.

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