The Mr. retired in 2020, so he spends his days playing house husband while I work.
His days consist of sleeping in, leisurely drinking his coffee, attending to an old, needy fur baby, and performing any number of chores (putting away dishes, laundering the clothes, and grocery shopping – to name a few).
Once I get home, we tend to our dinner needs before settling in for downtime – which for us has become watching shows together.
We’ve got subscriptions to most streaming services, and since we love sports, there’s never a lack for things to watch.
Last week, the second season of Andor dropped. This is a Star Wars spinoff.
Do I have any Star Wars fans in the house? I’m a child of the 70’s and remember my mom dropping me off at the mall to watch the original movies (originally installments I, II, and III, but currently known as IV, V, and VI). It’s all gotten rather confusing.
Season 1 of Andor came out two and a half years ago. It’s a safe bet that I forgot what happened in the first season, and watching the fifteen minute recap only slightly refreshed my memory.
We watched the first episode, and I truly was lost.
The next day, I did some googling and found this timeline of what episode/movie epistles to watch and in what order.
I thought about rewatching Season 1 of Andor on the down low so I wouldn’t have to confess to the Mr. that I was clueless, but he knows me so well that I finally owned up to it and asked if we could please just start at the beginning. Of the entire movie franchise.
I think he coughed a little. Bless his heart, but he didn’t marry the brightest matchstick in the box.
Regardless, we queued up Star Wars Episode 1.
Can we all agree that Jar Jar Binks is one of the most annoying characters ever created?
Saturday night, it was time for Episode III.
The Mr. did have to explain some of the political stuff to me because my brain kept messing things up. Ha!
We had a whole debate on watching Clone Wars Sunday night. It’s an animated series that’s seven seasons long. Yikes! The Mr. had watched one episode way back when and had not enjoyed it. I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything, so we compromised and watched the last episode of season 7.
Then, we watched Episode III of Star Wars.
This movie is heartbreaking. The Mr. had forgotten, but I had not. Anakin’s turn to the dark side is fraught with emotion and life lessons.
Monday night, we watched Solo. Y’all, we had somehow missed this movie when it came out. We found it an absolute delight! It was chock full of humor, and we finally learned how the partnership of Hans Solo and Chewy came to be.
That’s where we currently stand. We are debating whether to watch the Obi-Wan series. I have no recollection of it despite the Mr. telling me we viewed it when it came out.
My rebuttal? I had surgery in December. My brain is still fried from that. 🤣
It looks like we will be watching the Star Wars series for a few more weeks before I feel like I’m completely caught up and in the know.
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