I've just started showing my 5-year-old the Star Wars films. Going chronologically (1, 2, 3, 4, etc), one each weekend, which goes against some other dads' advice to show them thusly: 4, 5, 1, 2, 6, 3 (skipping the part when all the Jedis get massacred). Even going chronologically, my son has a ton of questions about the plot lines and characters. Some of these questions are answered by the many Star Wars encyclopedias he's taken from the library, especially after I taught him Roman Numerals. But other questions are really only questions because, of course, I refer to the episodes with different numbers based on the order I saw them in starting in '77. Mostly because of this, we find ourselves spending almost every bath time locked in an endless "Who's on First?" routine. Here's how last night's went, word for word:
Abbott and Costello Meet Darth Vader?
Teaching my son Star Wars has started to resemble Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?"
Image: from the Wikimedia Commons
