4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 ?
- Call me Mr Vader
My nephew will be of roughly the right age that the first time he sees a Star Wars film, they'll all be available. This puts him in an interesting, and almost unique position to be the subject of a psychological experiment. After all, he'll be able to watch the first three without knowing that the tow-headed little boy will become the scourge of the universe. He won't necessarily connect Palpatine and Darth Sidious, will he? And when he gets to the end of Empire, he won't have to wonder whether or not Vader is Luke's father - he'll know.
Those of us who were old enough to see the first motion pictures when they first appeared now bring so much baggage to them that we can't watch movies like Attack of the Clones without wondering about these niggly little things - like how come C-3PO has no recollection of Tatooine when he gets there in A New Hope...
Lucky baby.
17 May, 2002
