So, there's a new Star Wars film on the horizon and the trailer has the internet tying itself in knots about potential plot twists to be revealed in the latest instalment.
One thing that has become obvious over the years is that, when you strip away the CGI, the Star Wars saga has now eclipsed all other stories in popular culture centred on that familiar topic of family breakdown - going beyond even Dallas and the Royal Family.
As someone who queued up multiple times to see the first episode in its revolutionary big screen glory, and has kept faith with the franchise ever since, even I'm getting confused about who's related to whom and why the discovery of a bloodline seems automatically to lead to a level of violence not seen since Aeschylus.
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