Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 14 years and 9 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.A few months ago my daughter and I watched “Star Wars: A New Hope” together. We had been playing through Lego Star Wars on the Wii and had ridden Star Tours together over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and she was really into the characters. Considering I was younger than her when “ANH” was released (I remember seeing it in the theater with my parents and falling asleep during the second showing), I figured she was ready for the full experience.
She loved it!
Of course, she latched onto the whole Princess Leia thing, since she loves princesses, but she really got into the other aspects of the movie as well. By the end, when the Death Star exploded, we were both cheering together … it was a really cool bonding sort of moment.
My ultimate “proud father” moment happened early last month when she was selected as a padawan in the Jedi Academy show over at Disney:
This weekend, since my wife is away, we started watching the other movies. So far we’ve gotten through “The Empire Strikes Back” (she was floored when Darth Vader proclaimed he was Luke’s father, as I remember being when I saw it in the theater), “Return of the Jedi” (ugh, she liked the Ewoks, I’ll have to work on that 😉 but she was happy Luke and Leia were twins), and started “The Phantom Menace.” She’s very interested (as we all were) in how little Anakin becomes the formidable Sith Lord from the later movies.
It’s a cool experience, watching these again with her …
We finished all of the movies and then completed the corresponding levels in Lego Star Wars. As expected, she was upset to see Anakin turn to the dark side (“Revenge of the Sith” is a little disturbing, especially when Anakin slaughters the younglings in the Jedi temple) but was happy to see the birth of Luke and Leia and how everything tied back into the first (fourth) movie.