Count Dooku was right? Tim Hickson's Star Wars book marathon keeps reading on
The two-hour essay on the prequels, built from the expanded books and split into seven parts, has passed 1.7 million views in just over a month.
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I read all the Star Wars books, and now I understand the prequels
Thirty-four days old, "I read all the Star Wars books, and now I understand the prequels" is still the video doing most of the work on Hello Future Me. Tim Hickson, the New Zealand writer and worldbuilder behind the channel, posted nothing new over the past seven days, and the prequel essay kept drawing several times the daily crowd of anything else he has up.
It is a long sit. The chapters run close to two hours and read like a syllabus with opinions: The Phantom Menace as a story about capitalism, the Trade Federation's turn to the dark side, a Galactic Senate that "sucks," a plea for someone to please do something, and a seventh part on the inevitable war. Part six carries the boldest billing of all: "Count Dooku was right." For a channel whose about text admits to talking about The Last Airbender a little too much, it is a reminder that the other great love here is lore, read the long way.
Behind it, two older essays keep a steady pace. "How Trade Routes Really Work," from early summer, moves from the Silk Road and the Suez Canal to Hormuz, with Avatar, One Piece and Disco Elysium in its tags. "Videogame Worldbuilding vs Normal Worldbuilding" is nearly five months old and still finding readers of its own. Perhaps the trade video and the prequel essay feed each other: both are, in the end, about what happens when commerce runs a world.
The channel as a whole ran a touch above its usual daily views, with close to 290,000 over the week. Among the movie and TV channels around its size, that is the quietest total, while 酱sir电影局 is having an enormous few days and Science Fiction Station and IMDb are running well above their usual pace. Hello Future Me's week was simply Dooku, the Senate and the slow pull of an essay that rewards anyone with an evening free.
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Which actor played Senator, later Chancellor, Palpatine in the Star Wars prequels?
Ian McDiarmid played Palpatine in Return of the Jedi and returned for all three prequel films.
