Star Wars Clone Wars Episode II

As noted in an earlier entry, Benjamin's excitement for all things Star Wars didn't extend to a darkened theater. However, bring it to the TV and he's there.

Cartoon Network had the premiere of the new TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars tonight. I was originally just going to tape the two episodes and let him watch them tomorrow, but since they started at 8, I used the carrot of watching them in real time to get him to behave through the day. It worked extremely well and we got all our bedtime activities done in time to sit down on the couch.

Then his mother, who was taking the picture, though he needed his buddies as well. R2D2 and Wicket the Ewok were obvious, as was his favorite animal, Light the dinosaur. We also had the end of a bag of gummy bears, one of our past evening snacks that we hadn't done in a while, to help us enjoy the show.

There was a counter on the screen as the show before it was running. Being that it really wasn't something he should watch (and that's the big drawback of it being on Cartoon Network, we had to keep flipping to the baseball game during commercials), we watched baseball until it got down to under a minute. The final part of the countdown looked like this:

And then, the history of the first ever Star Wars TV show:

Benjamin was pretty much enthralled through both episodes and I found them fun as well. They are in the same vein as the movie, obviously. It doesn't necessarily have deep meaning, but it's fun and more kid-friendly than some parts of the live-action movies.

There's no doubt we'll be tuning in next week as well!