{"id":442,"date":"2012-03-26T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2012\/03\/26\/email-from-my-brother-in-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:28:25","slug":"email-from-my-brother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2012\/03\/26\/email-from-my-brother-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"email from my brother-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got an email from my brother-in-law (my sister’s husband). He is almost<\/span> as big a fan of the original Star Wars <\/span>series as me. I have been bugging him for a while now – when will his daughter, my niece, be introduced to Star Wars<\/span>?! This has been a major discussion point for me regarding the raising of my nieces. My nephew, the son of my brother, was a Star Wars<\/span> fan long before he was in double digits (I wasn’t, because the movie didn’t come out until I was 12).<\/p>\n

Here’s the email, with my niece’s name redacted, and my brother-in-law’s name altered, so as to give my sister peace-of-mind:<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Big News at the Richard House.<\/span>

Your niece watched Episode IV with me Saturday. She enjoyed it enough that she wanted to watch it yesterday as well.<\/span>

While watching, she brought up some questions that I did not know the answer to:<\/span>
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  1. Princess Leia was held in the Death Star, but in the getaway scene she had pretty cheek makeup on. When did she do her makeup?<\/li>\n
  2. Who did Princess Leia’s pony tail for her at the end? <\/li>\n
  3. Who was that big hairy cat walking around? I actually explained this one to her, but the name didn’t stick, he was still a cat.<\/li>\n
  4. She asked several times throughout the movie if Luke was still sore from getting beat up by the sand people. <\/li>\n
  5. How did they clean Artoo up so quickly at the end after being fried in the trench run?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    Since this was the first viewing, I catered more towards answering these questions, than actual teaching. I figured I would explain the Han shot first concept and Darth being Luke’s father later. I will probably never force her to watch Episode 1, I don’t want to subject her to unnecessary Jar Jar pain and suffering.<\/span>

    Yosh<\/span>

    Kelvin<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just got an email from my brother-in-law (my sister’s husband). He is almost as big a fan of the original Star Wars series as me. I have been bugging him for a while now – when will his daughter, my niece, be introduced to Star Wars?! This has been a major discussion point for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[989,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fangirl","category-movies-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}