Today was a monumental day, the day Besher first saw Star Wars. Last week he announced he was ready, and yesterday I found the last boxed set of the original trilogy at Costco ($5 cheaper than Amazon yeah!).
Of course, by original I mean it’s the Luke-Leia-Han trilogy. Not original as in before Lucas messed with it in the 90s. But I digress.
Mommy was concerned that parts of it might be too scary, so I watched most of it with Besh. Just, you know, to make sure he wasn’t scared. He wasn’t.
Here are some of Besh’s observations during the movie:
“Did he drive that floating car? That doesn’t look safe.”
“Why doesn’t R2D2 fly?”
“How did they get the recording in R2D2?”
“See him? [Luke.] He’s wearing white. He’s a good guy.”
“Wait, those other guys wearing white [Stormtroopers] are bad guys?”
“How did they get Darth Vader’s costume on?”
And, when he asked his favorite part, he eagerly responded:
“The lightsaber fight with Darth Vader and the gray haired guy!”
Daddy: “You mean Obi Wan Kenobi?”
“Who’s that?”
“The gray haired guy.”
“Yeah. He fought Darth Vader. Did you know he fought Darth Vader?”
“I did know that. I’ve seen it, you know.”
“When you saw it, who did you think would win? Did you think ‘He’s going to win!’ ‘Oh, no, he’s going to win now!’ ‘Wait, now he’s winning!’?”
I laughed and told him I couldn’t remember. It was been a while. But I’m glad this huge event has taken place.
Tomorrow, he and I are going to have a long conversation about Han and Greedo.
