Mrebo said:

WhatsMyName said:

I dunno. I guess its not different then believing in Santa all your child hood and then one day you realized that Santa was never there in the first place and move on with life.

And the main topic thing, this is just weird. Restricting kids from the PT because it wasn't anything like the OT? Awkward...

That makes sense.

As far as the topic goes, I have great sympathy for xhonzi's point of view. I certainly won't feel motivated to subject my future younglings children to the PT. It's not about being merely different from the OT...it's about undermining the glory of the OT, to put it slightly melodramatically. I certainly don't want a world for my kids in which the PT is considered Star Wars gospel. Whether I could be as diligent and steadfast in keeping the influence of PT out of my home...I don't know. But they will know the truth!

It's not really that hard. There's always a bit of exaggeration for entertainment value in my posts, but here's what we really do:

1. I never put the PT on to watch. Just like the appx 1 billion other movies I don't put on. I tend to put movies on for my kids that we all have an interest in watching. The PT doesn't make the cut.

2. I dremeled lightsabres off of 2 Galactic Heroes figures: a Yoda and an Emperor . It took maybe 2 minutes to plug it in, and remove the weapon.

That's about it. As I've said, my kids' imaginations are far better than the PT.

I like Mrebo's word "undermined." It's not that I think my kids will like the PT better than the OT... it's that I think the PT lessens one's ability to enjoy the OT.

That is all.