So the other day we were looking at a preview online to the Star Wars in Concert coming to Milwaukee in July. I had gathered my kids around to watch the nifty little video. However, I knew that I needed to re-evaluate my parenting experience when, upon seeing Han Solo on the screen, one of my daughters said, "Who is that?"
Ouch.
As my boys would say, Epic Fail.
So I decided to remedy the problem by having them watch the original movies. Just to be clear, they have seen Episodes 1-2 (3 was a little rough for them at their age when it first came out), and are big fans of the Clone Wars series (which, by the way, is great fun if you don't try to compare it too much to the movies) so I'm not a total failure. But still.
The classic moment came when Star Wars A New Hope (the one that started it all) started, the awesome beginning scene with the massive Star Destroyer taking over Princess Leia's ship. Then as the door burns down and we see all of the stormtroopers appear through the door, I overheard Cassie say,
"Wait - I thought they were the GOOD guys!"
As the Emperor would say, "your failure is complete...."
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