Last night when I stopped by Mom’s to pick up the kids, they were watching Return of the Jedi –specifically, the scene when Yoda dies. I remember watching that same scene for the first time in Almonte 6 Movie Theater on May 25, 1993.
After Yoda died, disappeared and joined the force, Morgan exclaimed, “Fiyoda’s dead!” She calls him Fiyoda, a combination of Yoda and Fiona (Shrek’s wife). On the way home, that scene launched an impromptu game of 20 questions. “Do people really disappear when they die daddy? Is Fiyoda real daddy? Why does Fiyoda sound like Grover daddy?”
Mason already knew the answers to most of these. I started him out on Star Wars pretty early on.
“Fiyoda”…awesome. That’s what I’m going to start calling “Yaddle”, glimpsed briefly in the Jedi Council scenes of The Phantom Menace.
You and I are really in sync here with respect to our little girls. Following her participation the Jedi Academy show at Disneyland last June, I’ve got a foundation by which to indoctrinate Bella into all things Star Wars over the last few weeks. The Empire Strikes Back is scheduled for Saturday night. So far she really seems to enjoy it.