What's it like to introduce your children to the Star Wars series (pretty emotional, that's what)

[andrewducker]

Seriously, I teared up a few times reading this.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Via chris_walsh, who is strong with The Force.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

Oh that's wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing this.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Only read the 1st 2 but...

Gosh, I never got so het up about a film (or anything) my life! Not even as a kid...

Another thing that struck me was that it wasn't 100% clear if the kids knew it was "just a film" - maybe maybe not... hard to tell from the articles. I just too strong and early a sense of reality vs fantasy I guess (partly innate, partly trained).

And the way they talked to the daughter in the Part 2 writeup (and they way he talked abtut his wife) wound me right up.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

... of course now I am wondering all over again what is wrong with me....

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. It's nice to see some people really are invested in what happened to Anakin, etc, even though most fans are annoyed at the first three movies.

[andrewducker]

I don't think most fans are that annoyed. I think there's a vocal faction of ultra-fans who are, but most people aren't actively annoyed with them.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6.

I always figured it would be the 'correct' order. Good to see that it is. And yeah, I may have teared up a litte too :)

Awesome set of articles. Almost makes it worth having kids! :)

[andrewducker]

Almost makes it worth having kids!
That was pretty much my feeling!

And yeah, that ordering definitely works.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Wow. This was delightful, and indeed tear-inducing at a couple of points. Thanks for sharing.

[zz]

wow.

and also interesting to see their reactions as first timers without any cultural osmosis, and how bits work differently for little kids than for older people.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'd love to be able to watch them again for the first time. And to be able to see them all as a kid would be awesome.

I shall have to settle for introducing kids to them at some point in the future!