Star Wars thru Pre-K Eyes
My husband and I have been introducing our 4 year old to Star Wars.
We were apprehensive as she may have been too young for 1) the story line and 2) the violence.
It turns out she is ok with both. She is pretty good at leaving movie and TV events in the make believe realm.
In Empire, when we got to the part where Han was frozen, she got really quiet. She asked what happened to him. We told her that Vader froze him, but that he was still alive. He just couldn't move. She tells us she's really sad.
Then, when Vader reveals to Luke that he was Luke's father, she repeated what Vader said and told us that can't be right, that Vader is the bad guy and couldn't be Luke's father.
We'll be watching Return of the Jedi this weekend. We'll see how she reacts to the twists.
This really made me smile :) My two oldes girls did not get into StarWars at all. But my son, who is almost 3, came up to me the other day and said "Daddy, I like lightsabers. WOOSH" while swinging his red lightsaber I got for him. Happy day for me :)
Posted by Chris Melissinos on October 07, 2008 at 01:31 PM MST #
My 5 year old watches all of the time! We took a recent trip and instead of packing Dora DVDs we packed all 6 movies, plus the two old Clone Wars cartoons. She has seen each of the 8 movies at least 4 times each. We watched them in release order, and story order, and then some.
Posted by Kevin on October 08, 2008 at 03:54 PM MST #