Star Wars through the eyes of a ten year old

I have never been a huge Star Wars fan. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movies...once each, but my son has watched every movie and every episode of the animated series at least a dozen times. I wanted to find out what made this such a great story, so I interviewed him about it.

Kevin: “You’ve watched Star Wars like, at least a half a dozen, a dozen times each…”

Troy: “Yeah”

Kevin: “Why?”

Troy: “It’s a good movie, it’s pretty entertaining.”

Kevin: “What makes it such a good movie?”

Troy: “It’s just, uh it’s really action-ey…I’m not sure.”

Kevin: “What about the story line?”

Troy: “Um, well, there are these people that break off from the old republic and form the CIS and the republic has these guys called Jedi who are fighting them, but they don’t have any army so then the Karmenian, these people, give them an army of clones and they fight the droids and end up beating them. And then the republic turns into the empire, and goes bad and the rebellion starts and the main bad guy Darth Vader has a son who’s with the rebellion and ends up beating the empire.

Kevin: “So what about that story makes it so interesting?”

Troy: “It’s just a great process, I think, because it goes, it’s so unordinary.”

Kevin: “What is so unordinary about it? The fact that it’s in the future?”

Troy: “Well it’s in the past, but it has more advanced everything than now; like the weapons and vehicles, and it’s just there is so much stuff that you wouldn’t even think about.”

Kevin: “So that leads me to another question I had: What technology from the movies would you like to have today?”

Troy: “Laser weapons, light sabers, proton canons…”

Kevin: “Why would you like all that weaponry?”

Troy: “It would just be so cool to have, and like it would make the battles so much…it would help the battles because when you fight, when you fight, like the sides, it would help, because you can’t really…um now it is a lot of numbers game, but in Star Wars a lot of times the under dogs win because they have a lot better people. The lasers and light sabers make it so that you don’t have to…it’s not only about numbers. It’s more about strategy and skill. You watch the war movies, and you know pretty much all of the movies are about the same, and then you go to this totally different; there’s nothing like it type of thing, and when there is nothing like it, it makes it really interesting and good.

There’s only 10,000 Jedi. It sounds like a lot, but in the movies, there’s…they fight all over the galaxy so each one, what makes them so powerful is they use the force and they use a light saber which can deflect laser blasts. There so powerful, but there’s not too many of them. There’s not enough to fight the entire droid army which has hundreds of thousands of droids. The droids are the main bad guys, and I like the Jedi because they’re cool and the droids, they’re stupid pretty much.”

Kevin: “So what makes the Jedi cool?”

Troy: “Well they’re just so smart, and they do things that you wouldn’t normally think about like picking their troopers up and moving them to places using the force. And they’re just so awesome I think.”