Help a Star Wars virgin pick an order to watch the movies in.

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Bingo. And for bonus points, Darth Vader was already her favorite even after just watching IV and V – she’s long since declared her desire to choke people with her mind, in between running around making COO-CAH, COO-CAH sounds – and so she was absolutely hooked by the idea of seeing him as a little kid.

Seeing that little kid win the race? She cheered. Seeing that little kid blow up the droid-control ship to win the war? She cheered louder, with arms straight up.

She was okay with him: didn’t mention liking him the way she liked, say, R2D2 – but laughed when his tongue went numb, which she mentioned when retelling the story later. (She spent much, much, much more time painstakingly explaining to anyone who’d listen that the real queen had the fake queen wear a lot of makeup so the real queen would be safe when people attacked the fake queen; that part made a huge impression on her.)

Be that as it may, she never said “I hope he’s gonna be okay” about Jar-Jar the way she did about various other characters, and hasn’t otherwise mentioned him despite eagerly going on and on about Luke and Yoda and the bear. (We keep telling her Chewbacca isn’t a bear, but she doesn’t believe us.)

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What made a big impression on my and my sister, back in the day, was the scene in Star Wars when Han shot first. We spent much time explaining how that didn’t make him a bad guy, that Greedo had made it clear that if Han didn’t hand him cash that instant he was probably just going to shoot Han to save trouble. In that situation, you don’t let the other guy shoot first - he just might not be a blind motherfucker with an uncontrollable twitch.

Big, hairy, brown. Can’t talk. Yep, a bear. :wink:

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I see Agent posting in other boards… but she/he never responded to this one. I want to know how Machete order worked out (if it happened at all).