astroboy
Master Member
So I introduced star wars to my kids recently. We watched in a version of the machete list. (I included the phantom menace because I thought they would relate to Anakin more if the knew him as a child). My kids are 4 and 6
So we watched them like this:
A new hope
The empire strikes back
The phantom menace
Attack of the clones
Revenge of the sith
Return of the Jedi.
There were a couple of very interesting things.
- return of the Jedi really is that much better after the prequels. It's nice returning to old friends at that point. And it truly is the joyous end of the saga that had my kids really ramped up.
-my kids really loved the reveal in ROTS that palpatine was the emperor. It all clicked once they realized the leader was actually the bad guy and that those friendly clones turned into stormtrooper. Up until that moment, they kept asking why that nice man always talks so sneaky
- the payoff of Vader saving Luke at the end was much stronger because they were invested in his story. Oddly enough, my son doesn't call him Darth Vader anymore. He calls him Anakin.
-the reveal that Luke and Leia were siblings is SO much better in ROTS. It also made my daughter excited that she knew the secret before Luke, Leia, han and Vader. So when those reveals happened to the characters in ROTJ happened, it was far more interesting.
-oddly enough, I realized that Vader died knowing he had a daughter, but he didn't know it was Leia. You think Luke could have said something.
-sadly, the slapstick of the prequels REALLY worked on my son. He didn't like jar jar, but he laughed at him.
-on the whole, I think I liked ROTJ far more than I ever had. Even though there was a second death star, the film was good enough that it felt natural. Not like they ran out of ideas.
-i also felt that ROTS was a bit of a horror show, considering how invested you get with 8 year old Anakin. It was pretty sad when he started to do bad things
https://youtu.be/57Novv2nh0Q
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So we watched them like this:
A new hope
The empire strikes back
The phantom menace
Attack of the clones
Revenge of the sith
Return of the Jedi.
There were a couple of very interesting things.
- return of the Jedi really is that much better after the prequels. It's nice returning to old friends at that point. And it truly is the joyous end of the saga that had my kids really ramped up.
-my kids really loved the reveal in ROTS that palpatine was the emperor. It all clicked once they realized the leader was actually the bad guy and that those friendly clones turned into stormtrooper. Up until that moment, they kept asking why that nice man always talks so sneaky
- the payoff of Vader saving Luke at the end was much stronger because they were invested in his story. Oddly enough, my son doesn't call him Darth Vader anymore. He calls him Anakin.
-the reveal that Luke and Leia were siblings is SO much better in ROTS. It also made my daughter excited that she knew the secret before Luke, Leia, han and Vader. So when those reveals happened to the characters in ROTJ happened, it was far more interesting.
-oddly enough, I realized that Vader died knowing he had a daughter, but he didn't know it was Leia. You think Luke could have said something.
-sadly, the slapstick of the prequels REALLY worked on my son. He didn't like jar jar, but he laughed at him.
-on the whole, I think I liked ROTJ far more than I ever had. Even though there was a second death star, the film was good enough that it felt natural. Not like they ran out of ideas.
-i also felt that ROTS was a bit of a horror show, considering how invested you get with 8 year old Anakin. It was pretty sad when he started to do bad things
https://youtu.be/57Novv2nh0Q
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