Via Torontosun.com:

There may be no trickier concept to define than cool. It’s a subjective, mutable thing, and one person’s cool is another person’s, “You’ve gotta be kidding me.”

Today we’re kicking off what will be a monthly feature leading up to the December release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. A wee sci-fi film getting a smidgen of buzz. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.

Truly, it’s going to be a big, big year for Star Wars fans, as J. J. Abrams returns to the saga that we last saw on the big screen a decade ago. Over the course of the coming months we’ll learn more about the movie’s plot, settings and new characters, from John Boyega’s Finn to Daisy Ridley’s Rey to whoever it is that’s playing the sinister cloaked dude with the broadsword lightsaber. (Adam Driver? Andy Serkis?)

But the Star Wars lineage is already rich with unforgettable characters. Some good, some evil, some in a grey area in between. And some that were especially, well, cool.

Click below to read the full article.