So my son is obsessed with Star Wars. I couldn't pull the Disney + subscription because they have all the Star Wars content. Since school ended, " The Clone Wars" cartoon is on our TV almost constantly.
I'm already not happy giving them ANY money. In the last couple of days I started paying attention. The crazy thing is, the main themes of this show are govt corruption, treason and democracy. They basically present the Seperatist or the bad guys as the Deep State.
I have to admit, I was expecting woke bullshit. I am shocked Disney is releasing this stuff. It's basically explaining and demonstrating government corruption. My 10 year old just asked me what a conspiracy is while watching.
Whoever is writing this script is definately a Patriot. I know Disney is evil and Im an asshat for giving them $. I just want to report there is one cartoon we can feel safe to let our kids watch.
I completely had these thoughts at first. The thing is, it opened up a dialog w my son that never would have come up. He has been asking questions like is Joe Biden like Count Dookoo? I then had the opportunity to explain using the show as examples of what is going on in our government on a kid level. I teach him good morals, but I try to sheild him from the micros of all this. I found it to be a great teaching opportunity.
I also think by putting this out there to normalize it would make our kids start to question everything. If they have the seed planted that govt corruption could exist, it's not so shocking in reality.
I also don't disagree with you. I could just be looking at this through hopium rose glasses because I just had a cool moment w my son.
Each parent has to make their own decision. If it provide you with an opportunity to teach, then that’s great. I’m happy that you’re able to have conversations like that with your child, without causing them alarm. You sound like a good parent
Make sure to explain how palpatine hijacks the senate and becomes a dictator. And then plays both the republic amd separatists against each other. Having his mind controlled clone troopers turn on and kill the jedi after palpatine was done using them. The republic then becomes the empire.
The original 6 movies and clone wars series is a great overall story. And pretty darn relevant to the current time.
If yall havent seen clone wars, is a couple episodes where they learn the clone troopers have a brain implant that will be triggered when palpatine issues order 66 in revenfe of the sith. The clones then start killing jedi.