Musings on Star Wars

I want a dirty Anniken poncho.

I showed my daughter the original Star Wars: A New Hope. She asked why the guys got married at the end. They were getting medals for saving the rebel cause.

In the second one I tried to video tape her finding out Darth Vader is Luke's father. She wasn't having it, and I think I distracted her because she wasn't even following it close enough to register shock. I showed her videos of kids being shocked, but she wasn't interested. In the 3rd one she walked away, abandoned the ending of the trilogy at the Ewok party. Maybe she was too young. I couldn't even get her to watch prequel trilogy.

Rewatching the Star Wars, I realized I don't think I saw the middle three movies when they came out, only later with my sons.

In Community, Abed makes fun of the midi-chlorians, but I just heard for the seemingly the first time that they are a symbiotic species. That makes it much more interesting.

Anniken blows up the power supply to take down the enemy in The Phantom Menace. It is what will happen to him later on when he is Darth Vader.

Jar Jar Binks is annoying, but I wonder it's not annoying that he's so stupid and clumsy. It's that the acting of him being clumsy isn't good. He's supposed to be the fortunate fool.

The constant "pew pew" makes the noise of guns annoying. But the sound track is amazing. My sons went to a live concert of the music of star wars.

I didn't notice but on Naboo there's a buried Buddha statue, like the Buddha was all over the universe and was ancient already in a long long time ago galaxy far far away. In Wookieepidia they call them the elders.

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