How & Why That '90s Show's Star Wars Obsession Will Be So Different
That '70s Show included numerous Star Wars references, thanks to Eric Forman, but the upcoming That '90s Show will feature a different protagonist and a different era of Star Wars. That '70s Show took place between 1976 and 1979, which meant that the lovably Star Wars-obsessed Eric had a limited pool of content from which to pull his jokes. Assuming that his fittingly-named daughter, Leia Forman, is as much of a Star Wars fanatic as her father, That '90s Show can acknowledge far more material, from films and TV shows to comics and video games.
Towards the end of That '70s Show season 1, Eric Forman and his friends see Star Wars on its opening night of May 25th, 1977, turning Eric into an obsessive fan, much to the annoyance of characters like his father, Red. Throughout the series, Eric references Star Wars, though his allusions are limited to the 1977 film. The franchise included a plethora of comics and a few novels between 1977 and 1979, but Eric Forman referencing Vader’s Sith apprentice Kharys or the planet Mimban would have confused the majority of viewers.
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That '90s Show will likely depict Leia Forman as a Star Wars fan—like her father before her—but the franchise has changed quite a bit since 1979. In addition to having two more theatrical films, two spinoff movies, and two cartoons, the Star Wars franchise experienced a massive resurgence of non-movie material in the 1990s, with novels like the Thrawn Trilogy, comics like Dark Empire, and video games like Star Wars: TIE Fighter keeping the universe alive far before the prequel trilogy began.
Leia Forman will be a teenager in That '90s Show, so while she’ll undoubtedly be familiar with the
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