Tonight was movie night, and we watched Star Wars. Yes, my kid’s meanie parents FINALLY let him watch Star Wars! Can you believe we made him wait so long?<\/p>\n
To attempt to make amends for our obvious parental deficiencies we spontaneously showered him with gifts: a teeny x-wing fighter from some long-gone playset (from Jonathan), and old school R2D2 and Chewbacca figures (from me). Because aren’t they better played with than collecting dust on a shelf in our bedroom? Then of course Gus kept asking throughout the whole movie if we had any other toys for him.<\/p>\n
I’d forgotten about all of the new scenes. I know it’s not the only thing that makes me an old fart, but I don’t like ’em. They’re just discombobulating and distracting, all of that CGI amidst the spaceship models + prosthetic aliens. Down with computers!<\/p>\n
Continuous questioning is the gold standard for movie watching around here, and tonight was no different. He was a little stressed out by the garbage masher. And he was confused about many characters names: lots of “Dark” Vader (predictable), and also Obi-Wan became “Toby,” which always got a giggle out of us old folks.<\/p>\n
Indeed Gus was so into it that we’re breaking our kid-imposed movie night pattern of watching one cartoon (last week: Castle in the Sky<\/a>), then one live-action film, etc. (they talk about patterns a lot in math these days so we are always hearing about them here). Next week it’ll be all Hoth, all the time, baby. Saddle up yr tauntaun<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight was movie night, and we watched Star Wars. Yes, my kid’s meanie parents FINALLY let him watch Star Wars! Can you believe we made him wait so long? To attempt to make amends for our obvious parental deficiencies we spontaneously showered him with gifts: a teeny x-wing fighter from some long-gone playset (from Jonathan), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}