Media Insight

[pyat]

Elizabeth (aged 6) upon watching Empire Strikes Back for the first time and seeing Yoda:
"That rubber puppet sounds like Fozzie Bear."

After watching Return of the Jedi:
"What happened to make Luke's father bad? Did something made him sad?"
And after that:
"Did the Emperor kill Darth Vader's wife?"

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

We all thought Yoda sounded like Grover.

[iridium-wolf.livejournal.com]

You have a very astute daughter!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

"Did the Emperor kill Darth Vader's wife?"

Either she at some point in the past saw or heard reference to Revenge of the Sith and thus you have a daughter with an excellent memory, or she didn't, in which case she is very clever indeed.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

She is both very astute AND has an excellent memory. So a casual reference could easily have stuck with her until she got to an age where she could make sense of it.

Most of my students have to be pushed to think about character motivations and pasts that make them act as they do. The level of inference required to think about what happened to make someone act a certain way is in itself a marker of high intelligence, not to mention high empathy.

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she is starting early with character development. Another author in the family, perhaps. :-)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Definitely. This is the kid who, for three years, has planned to be a screen writer (or other similar jobs involved in movie-making.)

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

That's right! I forgot that she wants to be a screen writer. My brains are particularly tired this evening.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, you have more than one - they can trade off. :)

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

My other brain is plugged into my laptop. The one that resides in my head does not work nearly so efficiently, especially after a rather sleepless night. ;-)

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

I said the same to my mom the first time I heard Yoda. (n)_(n)

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

We were watching Empire during the original run when a woman in the audience yelled out, "Hey, it's Fozzie Bear!"

So, not just six-year-olds. :)

Oh, if only we had left it at her speculations, and Lucas hadn't shown it onscreen. :(