It is Star Wars Day. Listed here are the individuals who’ve by no means seen the films.

But for a choose few, Star Wars Day is nothing however a black gap in popular culture.

Imagine it or not, there are individuals who have by no means consumed a single a part of the franchise — not the unique movies within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, not the love-them-hate-them prequels of the 2000s, not even the seemingly infinite sequels and streaming spinoffs in at this time’s Disney-dominated leisure local weather.

And so they’re superb with it.

“I’ve by no means felt like I’ve missed something by not seeing Star Wars,” 28-year-old Harris Foster of Austin informed The Washington Submit. “Actually, I’ve come to seek out that I do know the whole lot I have to know in regards to the collection via issues like parodies and simply the general cultural osmosis of media dialogue.”

Foster isn’t alone. Some abstainers say they will’t take the films critically or don’t have any clue what the story is about, regardless of one of the best efforts of our tradition to jam it into their brains. On social media, some even celebrated the truth that they’ve by no means seen Star Wars as followers cheered the vacation and Disney Plus launched a slew of animated shorts for the event.

“I think about myself a film fan, a patron of the cinema,” Foster tweeted Thursday. “However I’ve by no means seen the Star Wars prequels and I plan to maintain it that method. Each time somebody tells me about these films they appear to be burdened by having watched them. It haunts them like some form of Lovecraftian entity.”

Kory Blandford of Nacogdoches, Tex., stated he’s proud to have spent 34 years on this Earth with out seeing tales of a galaxy far, far-off.

“Now it’s a problem to by no means watch it,” he stated. “If I’m flipping via channels on TV and one thing Star Wars-related comes on, I rapidly change it.” He stated his associates have tried placing Star Wars on TV and he’s walked away.

Others merely don’t have the time to observe the franchise. Jeff Hartman, a 40-year-old author and podcast host who covers Pittsburgh sports activities, grew up in a home that didn’t worth science fiction. As an alternative of watching area operas, his household centered on “Die Onerous,” “Caddyshack” and “Billy Madison.”

“There’s nothing improper with Star Wars, simply not one thing I’m actually involved in,” he stated.

As an alternative, Hartman stated he prefers to observe comedy movies — together with “Spaceballs,” the Mel Brooks spoof on George Lucas’s franchise. “I can solely say I do know Star Wars solely within the satirical sense via Brooks’s tackle the film,” he stated.

That stated, he does acknowledge Darth Vader when he sees him.

Not one of the characters, he informed The Submit with huge bravery, look cool to him.

Paul Frushour, a 39-year-old occasion operations supervisor in Dallas, informed The Submit he’s by no means watched Star Wars as a result of he didn’t catch it on TV as a child and by no means tried afterward.

“It’s actually one thing that I can cling my hat on that goes in opposition to the grain of so many different folks,” he stated. “At this level, I can use it as an ice breaker.”

Requested to recount the plot, he ventured: “I’m guessing it’s an area exploration film the place the man defeats the unhealthy man and will get the lady.”

Cassidy Holman, who lives in Salt Lake Metropolis, one of many greatest Star Wars hubs within the nation, is aware of it’s full of motion, preventing, lightsabers and, nicely, Yoda.

“However I’m probably not positive what the aim is,” she stated. “I generally tend to get distracted, so watching lengthy films is difficult for me. I’d most likely watch it if somebody may actually persuade me to, however nobody has ever actually tried.”

Nikki “NikkiNineLives” Dee, a Twitch streamer, informed The Submit that her mom wasn’t into Star Wars rising up, in order that they didn’t have a set of DVDs or movies to observe. She by no means purchased into the hype and doesn’t see that altering.

“I most likely received’t watch Star Wars ever. I simply don’t care sufficient,” she stated. “I believe it’s a battle between some kind of authorities and rebels? There’s some robots and lightsabers? The massive unhealthy man who finally ends up being the dad of the massive good man? Yoda speaks backward? There’s a princess? Yeah I actually don’t know a lot,” she stated.

Blandford additionally is aware of bits and items of the story, however not the whole lot.

“Some man named Darth in a masks is Luke’s father,” he stated. “They’ve cool little mild sticks that they wave and bounce round like ballerinas. Robotic-looking camels roam the snow. I do know Yoda is common for one thing. I actually don’t have any clue about what goes on.”

Some want to change their methods. KiraHeartX, a Twitch streamer and social media character, tweeted that she would binge the franchise on Disney Plus in honor of Star Wars Day.

Frushour, then again, stated it’d take a “giant money cost” to encourage him to observe the franchise.

However Malique Rankin, a reporter for 10 Tampa Bay, a CBS affiliate in Florida, stated she has spent 27 years with out ever watching the franchise, and, at this level, she is aware of it will take an excessive amount of time to catch up.

And Blandford, who considers it a “private problem” to keep away from the franchise, stated he wouldn’t even know the place to start.

Of their protection, watching Star Wars in 2023 is an advanced enterprise. The best method could also be to observe the films so as of their launch — beginning with the unique trilogy from the ’70s and ’80s, then the prequel trilogy from the early-aughts, then the sequels of the previous decade. However Disney has amassed numerous animated and live-action films, in addition to some tv exhibits, that make it arduous to finish a clear re-watch or binge.

So for a lot of, subsequent 12 months’s Star Wars Day might look the identical as this 12 months’s — a day of yub nub celebrations for his or her continued obstinance.

Not that they’d know what a yub nub is.