Last night, legions of Star Wars fans gathered together to watch Monday Night Football. As you may have noticed if you were watching the situation unfold across the various channels of social media, they weren’t particularly happy about being forced to watch sports just to get a glimpse at the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer.
WATCH: The final Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer.
But under the less-than-happy veneer of fans waiting for halftime of an otherwise uninteresting game of NFL football, there was a darkness that had already begun to grow. A pall cast over the entirety of fandom. Just as advanced tickets for the most anticipated movie in years went on sale, it was clear that the world’s ticket-takers and their high-tech infrastructures were not ready. While the trailer eventually brought The Light to fans across the globe, The Dark Side appeared to be winning the war. These are the harrowing stories of The Star Wars Ticketpocalypse.
But first, some thoughts from social media on having to watch Monday Night Football to see the trailer, beginning with a message of hope from The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams:
#TheForceAwakens #MNF http://pic.twitter.com/yw6XvlpJNe
— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) October 20, 2015
New #StarWars trailer during Monday Night Football :-) #BillsMafia http://pic.twitter.com/QBuO8XPKb2 — Terrence A. McKelvey (@Terrence_CFP) October 19, 2015
Someone bring me the Venn diagram of Star Wars fans and Monday Night Football watchers…
— Faith E. Korpi (@faitherina) October 19, 2015
I’m going to have to watch football to see the new Star Wars trailer? What a cruel twist of fate. — philippe iujvidin (@philyuck) October 19, 2015
Those poor humans. At least their suffering was not in vain, as eventually, the trailer did play. But there was more suffering to be had for those who wanted to secure their tickets to the opening night of the century.
The Opening Crawl: London Servers Falling Down
Not long after tickets went on sale in the UK, the first country to come online, servers began to go down. According to a report by BBC, not since Benedict Cumberbatch starred in a one-night broadcast of Hamlet had the servers of companies such as Odeon and Picturehouse seen so much traffic. This led noted humorists across UK Twitter to take to social media to voice their displeasure:
The dark side has won. Half of england trying to book the @BFI for Star Wars causing the website to crash and them to suspend booking ???
— Jack O’Connell (@Jackdudeblue) October 19, 2015
Is “I’m sorry, I was trying to book Star Wars tickets but the Odeon site kept crashing” a valid excuse for being late for work? — Ailsa Scott (@ailsas) October 19, 2015
The Force is not strong with the Odeon website today. Took Yoda’s advice too literally they did; load or do not, there is no try. #StarWars
— Joel Tennant (@ThatTennantGuy) October 19, 2015
In the end, persistence won the day:
I didn’t abandon hope. The Force remained with me. Secured tickets after lunch. Midnight screening. Leicester Square Odeon. #TheForceAwakens — Stewart Gardiner (@StewartGardiner) October 19, 2015
Scary stuff, but it was only getting started. Because as we know, no one does unreasonable outrage like those of us in the United States of America…
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