Whether Episode IX sinks or soars, Star Wars will face the same fundamental challenge of thriving outside of its core narrative and sans its marquee characters.
The global success of Sherlock has sent the profiles of the programme's lead stars soaring and both Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the famous detective, are now busy with other projects.
As early as 1997, at age 13, Van Wastell appeared in the pages of his hometown newspaper, The Ventura County Star, soaring over a ramp at a newly opened skate park.
If you're Van Cliburn, the answer most certainly has to be Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B flat minor, the work that sent his star soaring in 1958, when he won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, got a ticker-tape parade in New York and sold more than a million copies of his LP recording.
As Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, he is also a star soaring.
His company's soaring share price made him a Wall Street star.
Time then seems to accelerate as the pole fights back, returning energy with interest to send him soaring towards the stars of the Ukrainian winter sky.
And if students want to have a go at penning their own tomes of adoration, this lesson on how to use similes and metaphors will have their romantic sentiments soaring like shooting stars.
But it's burly Aaron Neville's voice, soaring for the stars, that defines the band's sound.
Themost welcome of the new material derives from the hippie scene's San Francisco cohort, particularlyTheGrateful Dead's "Dark Star", a soaring 20 minutes of essential psychedelia.
