freak. n. 1 monstrosity. 2 abnormal person or thing. 3 colloq. unconventional person. 4 fanatic of specific kind.

Thursday, 19th May 2005, 12:01am - The official opening of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. People having been lining up since 9:00pm. Darth Vadars are seen duelling with light-sabors. Madness is everywhere.

So what exactly is the fascination with Star Wars? This film series has been the beginning of a cult that is surely going to exist for centuries, probably the equivalent in some ways to the controversial Illuminati. Even more interesting, is more modern times that have brought the release of Episodes 1, 2 and finally, 3, where Darth Vadar is born. With the release of these new films, new freaks and nerds have been born, and us "normal" folk have nothing better to do than sit there and ogle at such characters, that obviously have been awaiting this release since they took their first breaths.

Everybody knows, that where you find Star Wars, you find nerds. But we have discovered that there are two kinds of nerds, that is, nerds who are nerds, and then you have nerds that dress up (much worse we figure). To demonstrate, we have captured these people in action, out in the wild, however, much to our dismay and bagging of them, we do have to say, that some people looked really cool.

If you check out Channel 10 tonight (Thurs, 19th) you can see the winners of the best dressed competition (and the Blue Girl who we didn't manage to snap, but looked awesome with much effort put in to costuming!)

"May the force be with you"