A few weeks back at Space Night at Katherine’s school, we saw a planetarium presentation that included a retelling of the story of Perseus, Pegasus, et al. Katherine followed the story raptly, so I immediately went out and ordered a copy of the classic flick, Clash of the Titans.
Came a few days back, and this morning, Margie and I IMed …
Margie: kittn woke up at 6A this morning
Dave: 🙁
She seemed restless when I went in to close her door.Margie: wanted to sleep with me – that lasted 10 min
eventually she went down to watch a dvd – Clash of the TitansDave: ??!! Cool? And … disappointed i couldn’t watch it with her.
Margie: I’m sure that she will want to watch it again with you 🙂
Dave: Coolness.
Margie: She is enjoying it very much
Dave: Oh, excellent.
My Plan to Make Her One Big Geek progresses well …Margie: I asked her what she was watching and she called it Andromeda
Dave: 🙂
Groovy.
I remember loving that film when it came out. So, you don’t think it’s too much for a 6 year-old because I’m always eager to introduce Will to my favroite geek classics, but then afraid I’m being a Bad Parent.
Thus far, Katherine has been really interested in watching it. Though she did turn to me last evening and ask, “Daddy, is this real? Or did they make it up?”
Which, of course, is always an interesting sort of question for me, since, as a liberal arts type, I want to answer with talks about eternal verities and myth and metaphor and Jungian this-n-that and, as well, reflect religious faiths held by peoples past, and …
“No, the movie is just a story.”
“Okay.”