Let’s start with this fact : I don’t know anything about Star Wars. Okay, that’s not entirely true. It’s set in space, right? And Yoda’s part of the “good” gang. And they use light sabers. I also picked up from Toy Story 2 that the sentence “I am your father” is very Star Wars-y.
A few weeks back Julien and I watched the third… well, the third movie that preceeds the first real movie.
I sincerely pretended to look like I knew what or who the Droids were while we were lining up for the film.
I thought I could buy some popcorn so I could pretend to be fishing for unpopped corn kernels at the bottom of the tub to chew on whenever I didn’t understand what was happening, but the popcorn machine was marked broken.
I thought the theme song of Star Wars was the theme song of Superman – I mixed them up.
The movie was exciting (listen to me! ‘The movie was exciting’. God what an idiot I am – that’s the only adjective i can come up with) — okay, the movie “had me at the edge of my seat” (ha), but I kept scratching my arm – not only because of my mosquito bite – but also because I was wondering when Harrison Ford or at least the actor playing the young Harrison Ford would come out.
When Queen amidala was having a rough time giving birth, I tugged Julien’s arm to ask him if she was going to die.
He rolled his eyes and ignored, to the best of his ability, my Star Wars ignorance.
When Queen Amidala finally did die I once again whispered to Julien, “But she doesn’t really die, right? ‘Cause she’s going to be in the next episode, right?”
“Of course she’s dead!” he seethed.
I should have shut up then, but I tried to redeem myself by following up the blunder with another question.
“But the babies- are they going to die?”
Julien tsk’ed. “Of course not! They’re going to be Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker.” He looked incredulous at my question.
So, I sulked back in my seat, worrying about my Star Wars ignorance.
No I didn’t. I don’t really care about Star Wars.
*dodges flying tomatoes and rotten cabbage heads being thrown at my direction from Star Wars fans*
