My New Dating Requirements: Star Wars
I’m learning that I have an odd requirement I need to add to my dating requirements: he must be a Star Wars fan.
Not a super fan who follows all of the fan fiction stuff, although that’s a bonus because I don’t follow all of that and I’m apt to delve right into a Wiki of anything I happen to look up- but that’s another story. But he needs to at least have seen the original Star Wars films, realize the difference between the originals (Episodes IV-V-VI), the Digitally Remastered originals, the prequels (Episodes I-II-III), and by this point in time have seen the newest one in the theater. Or at least have plans to go soon.
I say this because I’ve only dated ONE person who hadn’t seen them at all, and frankly he was old enough to have been alive when they were in the theatres so there’s no excuse for him, and I realized afterwards that he was basically Satan incarnate. (Ok- maybe not quite that bad, but remember how I told y’all I was going to be more honest? Well, I call him Satan in private company so there you go.)
I also kind of dated one other guy who didn’t really care for the films. And that didn’t work out for a variety of reasons.
Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies were the go-to movies for my brother and I growing up. We would have movie nights almost every Friday with our parents and those were what we watched most frequently. It didn’t hurt that I had a crush on each of Harrison Ford’s characters. I’m also realizing this might have been when I first became attracted to smartass men… light bulb moment!
But really, they were a big part of my life growing up. We would hotly debate the quality of the digitally remastered films when they came out in my house. (Gotta be honest- I’m not a fan of them.) And then later the prequel movies. My father still has yet to see Episode III because he was so mad about Episodes I & II. We’re that family.
So this is now TWO, yes a small number of two men, who it didn’t work out with who either hadn’t seen the films or didn’t like them. And I think I’m going to use this as a barometer for dating in the future.
Maybe. It sounds like a good idea to me at least.
Love to all y’all,
Molly
