Dude, Seriously... Just Watch.

We started watching the original Star Wars trilogy with our three-year-old a little while back and we just finished the second movie this evening.

Now, I have not taken him out to the movies (yet), but mommy has taken him out to several with friends and she claims that he is very well-behaved in the theater.   He does great in restaurants and awesome in church so I have no reason to doubt her.

I guess...

Here are some of the questions he had throughout the movies so far.  And when I say “throughout” I mean “Throughout” - bolded, italicized, and complete with a capital “T”.  First, take the list below and pepper the movies very, very liberally with these first few items roughly every 30 to 90 seconds.  

Where are they now?

Who is that?

Is that a ship?

Is he good or bad?

Is that a good guy’s ship or a bad guy’s ship?

Is/are he/they dead?

What happened?

And now here are some of the more unique questions requiring me to actually pause the movie:

Why are they in Africa now?

Why do they [Jawas] speak Spanish?

Who lives in that boat [talking about Jawa sandcrawler]?

Why can’t Chewbacca talk right?

Where did Obi-Wan Kenobi go?

Why can’t I see Obi-Wan Kenobi when he talks?  Is he a shadow?

Why does he [Darth Vader] wear a cape?

Why is he [Darth Vader] sitting in that clam?

Where did his [Luke’s] hand go?

Why is he dressed up like Darth Vader?

This last one resulted in a two-minute Who’s-On-First-like verbal exchange that, if he was fifteen years older, would have resulted in a fistfight (What do you mean “Who’s in there?” It’s Darth Vader!  Yeah, I know, but why is he dressed like Darth Vader?  Oh... I see... So he can breathe.  See, a long time ago he was hurt and... Yeah, but who’s inside of there? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, I JUST TOLD YOU! I KNOW, BUT WHY IS HE IN DISGUISE?! HE”S NOT IN DISGUISE, THOSE ARE HIS CLOTHES! etc, etc...) 

But it was not all questions and me patiently answering them while psychically pleading with him to shut up for two seconds for Chris’sake. He had some comments, too.  It is getting late so I will just list the best one and the worst one so far:

Best Comment So Far:

When the first Imperial Cruiser glides into view at the beginning of A New Hope: “Whoa!”

Worst Comment So Far:

When Luke dramatically drops to the bottom of Cloud City shortly after having his hand chopped off by Vader:  “Wheeeeeee!”

Even though this last comment easily blows away the awesomeness of the first one, we will start and maybe finish the third (and final) movie over the next few days.  

More later.