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My Son, The Sith

07/23/2010 By

My son is six years old and like most boys his age he is obsessed with Star Wars.

Unlike most of his peers, he doesn’t want be Luke Skywalker, he wants to be Darth Vader. My son wants to be a sith.

Thirteen years ago I had a huge crush on this guy. He was a good friend of mine and we spent a lot of time hanging out together in groups. This was during the re-releases of the original three “Star Wars” films.  It came out on casual conversation that this cute boy liked the dark side. He rooted for Darth Vader! He was the first person I ever talked to that actually sided with The Empire. I had never heard of such a thing. Who wants The Emperor to kill Luke? This guy did.

He also thought Boba Fett was really great. I had never even given the bounty hunter a second thought. What was wrong with this guy? How can you like Boba Fett? Clearly Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Princess Leia were the cool ones. Not some random guy that takes nice rebels to Jabba for money.

Of course I married the cute guy and had babies with him and now his son wants to be a Sith.

My six year old son was coloring the other day. He drew a picture of him and Anakin shooting lightning at Obi-Wan Kenobi.

How could a child want to harm Alec Guinness?

I suppose in his case her wants to hurt Ewan McGregor (which I guess I can understand given some of the dialogue in Episodes II and III) but he is teaming up with Darth Vader.

And get this! This six year old wants to kill The Emperor so that he can be Darth Vader’s apprentice. Darth Ian.

Ian Sith My Son, The Sith

Because there can only be two.

I can honestly say that I think I would be worried if my husband hadn’t grown up to be such a productive, upstanding citizen.

But do you worry if your child wants to be the bad guy? If he prefers the dark side? When my niece always wanted to wear pink pants like D.W. in “Arthur” I was convinced that she would grow up to be a serial killer. D.W. is a whiny bully, but she’s got nothing on Darth Maul. She doesn’t even own  light saber.

Maybe my kid is a nonconformist. Maybe he will grow up to be a super villain. Either way he can kick your ass at Star Wars trivia.

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Goon Squad Sarah originally typed that her son’s peers wanted to be Luke Skyywalker. That is a much different post.

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  • http://www.kariannaspectrum.com Karianna

    My six year old is in love with Boba Fett. He giggles about how he really loves the dark side. So… I think it is okay, given that your husband grew up to be decent and all.

  • http://www.poobou.com/ cindy w

    “How could a child want to harm Alec Guinness?” is my favorite sentence of the day. Love.

  • http://the-holmes.blogspot.com The Holmes

    My 4 and 2 year old have somehow developed a love for Spiderman and Batman, but they’re constantly talking about how they kill people, which, ya know, kinda weirds me out a bit.

  • helenel

    My son also wants to be Darth Vader. He LOVES Star Wars/Clone Wars/whatever Wars. He has never seen the movies. For his sixth birthday next week, I’m going to sit down and watch Star Wars (Episode FOUR) with him. And then we’ll see what happens.

  • Karen

    My son’s friend dressed up as Anakin Skywalker for Halloween one year. I said to him, “Dude, why would you want to be the guy who becomes Darth Vader?” He said, “I’m Anakin before he went bad. And he’s still the most powerful Jedi EVER!” So there ya go. Kids like to be the most powerful dude, and come on, Darth Vader has that long-distance choke hold move. That impresses them every time.

    That being said, we really don’t allow our kids to pretend to be the bad guys. One of our house rules. While they’re still learning to be good (nobody is born knowing how), we want to them to emuiate the good guys.

    • Della

      I can’t hear the phrase “the most powerful jedi EVER” without thinking of this:

      http://bit.ly/brcKlR

      one of the most quotable SW satires EVER. heh heh heh heh heh heh thbbt.

  • http://www.didactic-pirate.blogspot.com Didactic Pirate

    My 8-year-old daughter has decided she’s going to be a super villain when she grows up. I asked her why she would rather be a villain then a hero, and she said, “because they have the cool weapons.”

    I have no idea what to do with that information.

    • Karen

      I remember my then-14-year-old nephew arguing that he’d rather side with the Romulans rather than the Federation because, and I quote, “The Romulans’ weapons are so much COOLER!”

  • Heidi T

    My 5 year old could give your son a run for his money on Star Wars Trivia. He actually wants to be General Grievous when he grows up

  • http://byflutter.com flutter

    I am so totally in love with your kid

  • http://thiscouldgetuglier.blogspot.com Kathryn (@Kat1124)

    How totally cool…I have a 5 year old who plays Darth Maul every single day. He’s obsessed, totally. He has six light sabers…we make him buy them with his own money now, after number three we were like DUDE! You have too many light sabers! The boy is a Star Wars maniac and he loves the dark side, too.

    They could have one hell of a light saber battle, your boy and mine. :)

  • http://plasticsardine.livejournal.com Becca

    We prefer COBRA to GI Joe for several reasons: the characters are cooler, they’re more fleshed out, the weapons rock, and they have better names. The bad guys are just consistently more interesting. That’s why the image of the anti-hero is so popular.

    BTW, Boba Fett worked with the Rebel Alliance too. He worked for whoever paid the most, hence his profession. All the bounty hunters were pretty cool, though Zuckus is the man.

  • Tricia Honea

    It’s all about their finding out the difference between good and evil. We let our boys play and figure out who they want to be. They both pick the good guys now, but for a while there Atticus only wanted to be the bad guy.

    Now that he’s a year older (7) he’s figured it out that the good guys are pretty cool too.

  • http://www.themummychronicles.com Vicky

    I used to breathe into my milk glass at the dinner table and pretend to be Lord Vader, who I now follow on Twitter naturally. Your son rocks! I still love Darth Vader and would rather be him any day.

  • John

    At least… At least your son doesn’t want to be Jar Jar Binks

  • norm

    I, personally, was Batman. There are photos. But you have to look at the bright side, Sarah, my son was the Joker for a while. Until the makeup ran out. Now that was effing ominous.

  • Samantha

    My son is four and is all about dinosaurs. We let him watch Jurassic Park when he was three, because we are awesome parents, and he cheered for the velociraptors to eat the kids in the kitchen.