My son is twelve, and he only wants to talk about Star Wars.
I don’t mean he likes it. I mean it’s the only thing. Every car ride. Every dinner. I asked “Hey, tacos tonight? What do you think? He said, “Did you know Ahsoka Tano was originally supposed to die in Season 5?”
That’s what we’re working with.
For a long time I thought he was stuck. That he needed to broaden out, diversify, become more well-rounded. That’s the phrase I use, isn’t it? Well-rounded‽‽
There’s an old Greek fragment of a sentance that survived two and a half thousand year… “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
I’m a fox.
My son is a hedgehog.
And this episode is about discovering that the hedgehog might be the wiser animal.
Because Star Wars isn’t just Star Wars. And going all the way into one thing doesn’t mean you’re missing everything else.
It means you’re finding everything else inside it.
He’s not stuck. He’s free. I’m the one who forgot what that looks like.
