Okay Obi Wan, Now I Need Help
It’s happening. Actually, it started happening several weeks ago but I didn’t realize just how bad it had gotten until The Wedding Date and I went to the see Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
Not expecting to find myself particularly enamored of the film, I brought a bag of Cheez-Its, a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies and two miniature bottles of wine, one for me and one for The Wedding Date (give me a little credit). I figured I’d need some way to entertain myself in case the official Hasbro Star Wars Fighter Pods which we’d received with our tickets weren’t quite as exciting as the website would have lead one to believe.
We made our way to a pair of seats in the back of the theatre and that’s when the trouble started.
There were kids. Everywhere.
And they were totally ruining the movie.
I like kids but I do not like kids on weekends. Weekends are for recharging, for eating chocolate chip pancakes with one’s boyfriend and for engaging in grown up conversations in order to stave off the onslaught of shoe tying and nose blowing that will occur, without fail, on Monday morning.
As such, I was none too pleased when the family of six seated directly in front of us started grumbling.
And when the unaccompanied teenagers to our left started talking, it was all I could do to keep from yelling “Shut up!”
Especially when they started talking nonsense (i.e. “Look, that’s Princess Leia.” Um, no. Actually it’s not Princess Leia because this is Episode ONE. Don’t you know anything? Princess Leia isn’t even born yet, you little halfwits.)
The Wedding Date seemed rather amused by my indignation, especially when the teeny boppers started insisting that Anakin Skywalker was going to grow up to be Obi Wan Kenobi; even a neophyte such as Yours Truly knows that he’s destined to become Darth Vader.
(Duh.)
But that wasn’t the real problem. The real problem is that three days after we saw the film, I was still talking about Darth Maul and how cool his double-edged light saber was. I mean seriously, why use a light saber sword when you could use a light saber bow?
When I posed this question to my father he said—and this is a direct quote—“I don’t care.”
How could you not care?
If the Jedi knights had had double-edged light sabers, Obi Wan would have killed Darth Vader in A New Hope, and Luke would have never had to spend all that time standing on his head in the swamp and it wouldn’t have mattered if Han shot first or not because the Dark Side would have been put in its place years ago.
(He did, by the way. Shoot first, I mean.)
Sigh. Some people just can’t appreciate cinematic genius.
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Kat Echevarría Richter 
17 Responses to “Okay Obi Wan, Now I Need Help”
Oh my…I can see that the transformation is almost complete… 🙂
lol, you’re starting to scare me.
I know… I’m crossing over to the Dark Side. Can you believe I included TWO Star Wars pictures in a single post? [Shudders]
LOL, Kat. Good for you. You have a new family of interests. Love can do wonderful things. Those
characters have been very important to my younger son all his life. Very amusing!
OMG!!!! need I say more?????
Ha ha ha! You’re in! Next up is Lord of the Rings, because the Hobbit is coming out in December. Is TWD a fan?
On another note, almost every time I go to the theater I’m reminded of why I don’t often go see a movie. The restless kids and the non-stop talking teenagers. If it’s a kid movie, I expect it, and I’m fine with it. But for the rest, I remember why I netflix.
Excellent! Welcome to the Dark Side.
This was a hilarious post…… but it put a smile on my face.
YAY!
And now it begins…Wedding Date’s evil plot to convert you has been completed. Welcome to the throngs of GFs who were helpless in their efforts to avoid star wars but are now fans….
OMG. You’ve gone to the Dark Side. I’m right there with you though. I wish those little b@#$%^&s would sit down and shut up so I can eat my popcorn and allow the sound of light sabers to get my adrenalin pumping.
When you start dressing as Princess Leia, THEN we have a problem.
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Okay, okay, you win. No one is better than you.
The Dark Side is awesome … remember, we have cookies 😀
Btw, I HATE hearing the original movie referred to as “A New Hope” … I know that fits it into the spectrum of the six movies, but to me that will always and forever be STAR WARS … the one I saw at least twenty times in the movie theater when I was twelve.
Sigh.
great post.
Just been to watch the movie with my youngest son.
Was devistated to realise that we went to late to get the cool pod racer glasses.
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Haha…awesome. I felt the same when Adam and I went to see The Avengers. It was packed and we were stuck in the back row. The prosti-tots (young girls who dress like whores) in front of us started gushing about how gorgeous Chris Evans is. Meanwhile I’m trying to enjoy the movie that we had to pay a ridiculous amount for and using most of my energy to control my temper. All I really wanted to do was smack them upside the head and tell them to shut the f*ck up.
Hah! Boy do I know the feeling…