Best reaction eVAR

[janradder]

Arie and Éiden just watched The Empire Strikes Back for the first time.  When Darth Vader told Luke he was Luke's father, Arie gasped and quickly turned to me, his jaw hanging open in disbelief and astonishment, absolutely stunned at the revelation.

"Is that true?" he asked.  "Is Darth Vader really his father?"

When I said yes, he again gasped, his mouth still open in stunned disbelief, and turned back to watch the end of the movie.

Comments

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

That was my exact reaction to the Ewoks.

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to say, tell your sons the series ends there, unless you want to make them cry.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

They're young enough (6 and 4) that I think they'll actually like the movie a lot and will probably think the Ewoks are great (Éiden, after all, laughed like crazy at the trailer for that stupid Chihuahua movie which, if yu haven't seen it, is pretty bad).

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Is that because they were so adorable, you just couldn't believe it and had to pinch yourself to make sure you weren't dreaming?

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

Precisely!

Oh, wait, no, it was the crashing realization that my childhood myth had been spectacularly destroyed in order to line a dullard's pockets.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

To this day I think that could have been a seriously kick-ass movie if someone pulled Lucas away from the controls and cut out all the Ewoks/puppets crap. It coulda been a contendah, instead, it wound up a schill for the Star Wars toy line.