We watched all the Boba Fett episodes. Now Obi-Wan Kenobi has his own show. We watched the first episode and princess Leah was really cute. It felt like watching an episode of Netflix's Anne of Green Gable until the plot twist came.
It's worth watching for Star Wars fans, but my kids said there was not enough Luke. They were disappointed when the only glimpse of Luke was from far away. My wife hated the suspense of the whole episode. But that's the way Boba Fett and Mandalorian went. There wasn't much dialog in the first episode. It's just a lot of mystery and suspense. I would say it is worth watching just to see Princess Leah in her most bratty behavior.
My son invited me to play the clone war version of Star Wars Monopoly. Two places makes a slow monopoly game, but he just wanted to try it out.
The game is played just like regular Monopoly except the names have been changed. Instead of houses there are settlements and instead of Hotels there are cities. There are Jedi cards and Sith cards instead of community chest and chance. It was pretty fun to read the cards and settle the properties.
Rent at Jabba's palace is 2000 credits and one settlement is 200 credits. So the rent at Jabba's is 2200 credits. That is enough for anyone to get close to bankrupt.
We sped up the game by using an auction for cards that we didn't want to buy. Having an action with only two players is pretty funny. We just gave the properties away for as cheap as possible and helped each other to get monopolies. We set the time for one hour and just played for fun.
The game can help elementary school students gain confidence in numbers and also improve communication and conflict resolution. It is not as boring as a regular Monopoly game and not as violent as the game I played with my brothers many years ago. I don't think it is worth the 70 dollar price tag, but everything seems overpriced these days.
Star Wars wouldn't work without the great music tracks from John Williams performed by The London Symphony Orchestra.
I chose this one considering the background of the Obi-Wan movie. The song shows the struggle between Anakin and Obi-Wan. From that time on Obi-Wan thought he had failed, but in fact he had restored balance in the force.
When I was a kid watching Star Wars it looked like the theme of light verses dark, but as the years go by I see the theme of the balance of light and dark.
There are always new mysteries revealed to me in the Star Wars World. A funny thing is now Disney owns the voices and images of the star wars movies and with AI they will bring back to life characters that we would not expect to be walking and talking at their age.
I guess 2200 credits for Jabba's palace is pretty good rent considering today's stagflation.
