Shoot us if you want, but this writer is one of those people who hasn't seen a single episode of Game of Thrones. It's not that we are smug and trying to be cool about going against the grain. It's just that when the series released in 2011, we missed the bus and haven't hopped on to it yet. And even with the Marvel Cinematic Universe — which, like GoT, is all the rage at present — we are far from completing the ride, making us further hang our head in shame.

But Star Wars is one franchise we have gone the distance with. We entered "the galaxy far, far away" rather late in life, in our 20s, and there was no looking back once our foot was inside that door. The universe that George Lucas first built in 1977 was so far ahead of its time that the director was initially ridiculed for conceiving such a fantastical epic.