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The Star Wars Experience

Cowgrit took Calfgrit4 out for a few hours Saturday so Calfgrit7 and I could watch Star Wars (A New Hope). Friday night, I told CG7 that we’d do this. He was hesitant. “I might not want to watch it,” he said. “Is it scary?” he asked.

I told him it might have some scary parts, but nothing really scary. And he didn’t have to watch it if he didn’t want to.

When the time came, I told him I was going to watch it and he could watch it with me, or he could go to his room and play with his toys. I didn’t want to stress him. But he seemed excited, and he sat down on the couch with me. He held a clone trooper action figure in one hand and an Anakin Skywalker lego mini figure in his other hand as the movie started.

I read the scrolling introduction text aloud because, although he can read, I wasn’t sure he could read it fast enough and understand what it was explaining. Then Tantive IV rushed through space, followed by the massive star destroyer. Calfgrit7 was immediately engrossed.

All during the movie, he asked many questions. When the story introduced Luke Skywalker, he asked about the order of the films. “This is the fourth part of the story,” I explained, “but it was the first movie made.”

Sadly, he already knows that Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father, becomes Darth Vader. In fact, when Ben Kenobi told Luke that Vader “betrayed and murdered” his father, CG7 spoke up to say, “No, he’s still alive.”

This was the problem I was fearing. He knows so much about the Star Wars story already, but he’s never seen any of the movies. He knows who Yoda is, so he won’t be surprised when he reveals himself to Luke in the next movie. He won’t be stunned by Vader’s pronouncement that he is Luke’s father. He won’t be shocked when Luke tells Leia they are brother and sister. Etc.

But fortunately, there were many things, non-plot things, that CG7 didn’t know. He liked how the Force worked — “These are the not droids you’re looking for.” He had never seen a lightsaber in action. He didn’t know Han was going to shoot Greedo at the table. He had never seen the real inside of the Millennium Falcon. He didn’t realize how big Chewbecca was. He didn’t know how big the Death Star was. He had never seen the starfighters in action. He had never heard what blasters sound like.

He had never even heard what R2-D2 sounds like. When he and Calfgrit4 played with Artoo, they had him talk like everyone else. The beeping fascinated him. He’s now explained it to CG4.

So although the overall story was known and spoiled, it was the minor details that really got his attention. He’s already stated his interest to see the next two movies. But since I’ve seen that the story surprises are already lost, we won’t be in a rush to see them all this weekend. We’ll space them out a bit over the next couple of weeks. Maybe we’ll watch them over Thanksgiving weekend.

Bullgrit

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