Shared by u/CitizenKeen:
My son is eight, and he’s seen everything Star Wars except Andor. (And that means he’s seen more than most people in this subreddit, because Young Jedi Adventures is longer by screen time than Andor, and yes, it’s canon.)
He loves Star Wars. But I’ve noticed something weird: when he talks about Star Wars, he almost never mentions Luke Skywalker. He doesn’t mention Leia that much, either.
And I realized that, since he’s never seen Star Wars in theaters, his concept of the Star Wars universe is entirely dominated by screen time. And when you compare the Original Trilogy to the run time of Rebels or Mandalorian or even Resistance, Luke’s barely in the Star Wars universe. He’s just this guy who’s in the old movies – barely seven hours – and then he makes cameos in other stories. At least Leia was friends with Ezra.
I assume this post will be downvoted to oblivion, but I thought it merited discussion that there’s an entire generation out there who are watching Star Wars on small screens and aren’t reading comic books or old novels about redheads, for whom Star Wars is defined by Ezra and Nubs and Groku, and that really blows my mind. The grognards are going to have a rough decade or three as these kids start aging into their own purchasing power.