Having conversations about Star Wars is incredibly fun when you have no idea who anyone is or what’s going on
I just caught a bit of the 6th film (which is technically also the 3rd but I’m not getting into that one) and spent the entire time laughing because I had no idea what was going on because all the things I thought happened here happened in other films
Here’s how that hour(-ish) viewing session went:
- I heard Luke say ‘Obi Wan’ and immediately yelled ‘Ewan McGregor!’ even though the man was like. 12 when this film came out, so duh it wasn’t going to be him
- I managed to get Han and Luke mixed up. I think this is very impressive considering they have very different haircuts. Also I thought Han was stuck in concrete forever
- Cackled when Yoda died. Like, RIP to the guy but I wasn’t expecting him to just disappear when he died. Thought he would’ve at least stuck around until rigamortis set in
- I didn’t know who this random woman was. It was. It was Leia…
- Love C3PO and R2D2 and Chewbacca but where did they come from? I’m assuming there’s a planet of Wookies (I think that’s what Chewbacca is?), but what about the robo duo?
- Apparently Palpatine blows up and then comes back somehow?
- The visual imagery of ‘Teddy bears (Ewoks) taking down the Empire with sticks’ (direct quote from someone irl) is so good I had to stop watching before I got to that point
- I thought this was the film where Vader went ‘I am your father’ to Luke, but apparently that had already happened!
I am going to be honest here, my complete lack of knowledge about Star Wars is entirely on me; I couldn’t give less of a shit about the franchise as a whole, and honestly it’s way more enjoyable of a viewing experience not knowing anything
Like, I get way more enjoyment out of people explaining Star Wars to me than I do when I’m actually watching Star Wars, so if you’d like to give it a go, feel free :D!