The Profoundly Flawed ‘The Phantom Menace’ Created a New Generation of ‘Star Wars’ Fans – And I Was One of Them

I was five when my father dragged me to the first installment of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: The Phantom Menace , in 1999. Five-year-old me had no understanding that Star Wars was a long-established galaxy, that other stories existed, that those stories existed chronologically ahead of this Phantom […]