My young apprentices

We have just finished watching, as a family, Episode One of Star Wars (The Phantom Menace). We watched a few chapters every night. This took quite a few nights.

It is possibly the Star Wars episode most suitable for family viewing. No attempts at emotional depth, not too much death and destruction (and it's mainly droids getting smashed) and not much that is potentially scary for the young. Darth Maul wasn't even frightening ("Look Mummy, he's wearing face paint!"). It also has a young child in it (doing impossibly precocious things). Jar Jar Binks's antics, as painful as they are, were enjoyed.

Isabelle and Aidan liked Yoda, and have resumed pouring over Brendon's Revenge of the Sith sticker book.