Here is a good example. I have a 3 year old son who is very energetic but he will sit still through A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and if my hand is within a foot of the remote he tells me not to touch it and will smack my hand while his eyes are still fixed on the TV.

I put on Phantom Menace and he wants off the couch and plays with his cars. Then the podrace comes on and he watches that while making noises when its over he asks to see the racing again. I say no and he goes off to play his cars.

He hasn't seen Return of the Jedi yet.

So from a very early age they can what is crap and what is not.

The fact my son is called Luke has nothing and I mean nothing to do with Star Wars.

I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.

Filthy Pierre said:

I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.

Did she think he would follow Count Dooku on a damn idealistic crusade like his father did?

Heh. Just ran across this and thought it oddly apropos to this thread. Hopefully your kids, and mine, won't end up like this:

I know we all have varying opinions on what merit there is (or isn't) in the PT, but allow me to quickly reiterate mine and that might help a few of you understand why I have gone down the "almost completely censor" approach.

I think Star Wars is irreverisibly devalued through association with the PT.  I don't keep the PTs out of their fragile lives to prevent them from liking the PT... I keep the PT out of their lives so that they'll like the OT.  I know kids are all into the Clone Wars stuff that's out, but I think that their attachment to it will be fleeting.  I doubt any of their generation will remember that crap in 30 years the way we remember Star Wars today.

I could go on, but I'll leave it there for now.

Bingowings said:

Filthy Pierre said:

I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.

Did she think he would follow Count Dooku on a damn idealistic crusade like his father did?

I was a damn fool. I knew she was gonna say that.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/explanations-about-Vader/post/378800/#TopicPost378800

I tried to find earlier posts containing other stories from denying my kids the PT.  This was the best I could find.

I'd take a different approach.  First I wouldn't let my kids watch any of the movies until I've properly instructed them on the difference between good movies and total crap.  Then I'll let them watch the movies and see what happens.

awe, the little Vader looks sad :(

Luke Skywalker he say :

I care.

EyeShotFirst said:

I constantly quote the emperor's lines from ROTJ. I like taking the remote control and putting it on a channel that nobody likes only to say:

"You want this....don't you."

 I say this to my kids all of the time.  Especially when they're really little.  It works great with pacifiers.  You hold it out in front of their face until they lock eyes on it:

ME: You want this... don't you?
HIM: ...
ME: Take your baby binkey!  Strike me down with it!  THEN!  Your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!
HIM: ...
ME: ...
HIM: .....  <WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH>
ME: (looking offscreen) Honey?!  He wants you!

There won't be a new generation of oot fans, since the originals are suppressed and don't exist as far as George Lucas is concerned.

Ironic that he wrote on the video box for the vhs " i hope your children and children's children, enjoy them."

He has made sure that cannot happen,lol.

My daughter was 3 when she was R2-D2 for halloween.  She called him "Hardy-too", but would actually just say, "That's me!" anytime she saw him.  She still does that.

I thought about having her wear a tutu with her costume so she could have been RD-22, but it never happened (ergo: no pics).

My friend posted a picture the other day of his few-month old son in a Star Wars onesie. It's stuff like that that really makes me want to be a father.