I went on a trip with my freinds last week, and I brought along a good collection of movies to watch. And of course, I brought all six episodes of Star Wars for good measure. To my suprise, the others wanted to watch them. In fact, we watched every one of them, in one to six order. Not in one sitting, but over the course of a couople of days. Basically none of them had seen any of the movies more than twice (haha, what losers), and one of them hadn't even seen The Empire Strikes Back (gasp! )

It was a cool experience, observing how they reacted to events. Here are some of their impressions and questions:

1. Why didn't Count Dooku sense Obi-Wan when he walked right past him with the seperatists in the hallway on Geonosis?

2. The quality of the movie is directly porportional to the awesomeness of the lightsaber fights.

2b. A New Hope sucked.

3. How did Obi Wan cut off both of Anakin's legs and one of his arms with one lightsaber slash on Mustafar?
3b. How could Anakin survive after being totally burned in lava?
3c. Well, he was already stopped and dropped, all he had to do was roll.

4. How old was Luke/Anakin?

5. WTF was going on with the Padme/Queen/decoy/senator thing?

6. Why doesn't Vader ever use Lightning?

7. Use Force heal! (When Qui Gon is dying)
Use Force Speed!
Finally, he used Force Push!
Come on, use Absorb!
etc. Basically, a general opinion of "Why be a Jedi if you don't use your frickin powers!?"
He was obviously a fan of the Jedi Knight games.

8. Oh man, I hated that level.

9. How can they survive inside the asteroid without space suits?

10. Wouldn't point five past lightspeed be really slow?

11. How are there sandpeople in ANH if Anakin killed them all in AOTC?

12. What are those called?

13. Are those banthas?

14. Is lightsaber color determined by your aura or something or just how it's built?

15. What's the point of armor if it doesn't do anything?

16. Yoda f***in' pwns!

17. (At the beginning of ESB) Is that the same actor for Luke? He looks way uglier like he got into an accident or something.
17b. (In ROTJ) Luke is just so ugly.
17c. (In TPM) Wow, look at how ugly Yoda is.
17d. Haha! Look at that guy in the back with the really long neck! (Refering to Yarael Poof in TPM)

18. Oh, that's hot (Sarcastic, refering to Sy Snootles)

19. OW. (When Padme jumps onto the Reek's back)


There were questions that I was expecting to hear but didn't, and many more questiosn that I never expected but heard. Some were questions I could answer, some I couldn't, some were just strange opinions I didn't expect. It was interesting though. The movies were broken up, interupted, and made fun of enough to spoil any actual "All Six at Once" experience on my part, but simply seeing Star Wars through the eyes of people who don't know jack about it was a fascinating experience.