The first episode of Nerdist Industries’ six-part Star Wars: Course of the Force, a series of videos promoting the pre-Comic-Con charity event sponsored by Lucasfilm & Nerdist goes live on You Tube today with new episodes slated to unspool every week.  The videos are promoting this year’s Olympic-torch-style relay with lightsabers, which begins near the Skywalker Ranch in Marin County on July 9th and ends at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 16th (see "Course of the Force Returns").
 
Episode 1, which was written by scribes from Saturday Night Live, sets the stage for this year’s saga as the Course of the Force lightsaber goes missing from Nerdist headquarters with R2-D2 quoting from Office Space and dancing like Justin Timberlake and Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick dressing up as Princess Leia.