Well. 

Considering that last post, it's amazing I didn't wake up yesterday morning with a pounding hangover.  But I didn't.  It's a Labor Day Miracle!!

Yesterday was not a good way to end the summer.  Good thing we have today as well.  It's not great outside, but at least it's no longer gray, dank and cold.

Yesterday was one of those textbook rainy days.  So dark and cold all day, there was nothing else for it but to plant myself in front of my largest tv and pop in a movie.  

There used to be a very distinct line between movies and tv.  It's impossible for my kids to understand that when I was growing up, they were two different industries and there simply was no crossing over.  When a movie that you really enjoyed came out, you went and saw it as often as you could because when it's run was over, it was gone forever.  Unless it was a big enough hit to perhaps be aired on tv once a year, like The Wizard of Oz, or once a decade, like The Sound of Music.  When those blockbusters were on tv, it was an event.

My kids can't possibly understand what a ground breaking (worlds colliding) shock it was when Sally (This isn't supposed to happen!) Field won an Oscar.  She was a tv actress.  Bad tv, too.  She was the Flying Nun, for God's sake. 

It was video of course, that really blurred the line between tv and movies.  Suddenly, a movie you really loved, you could have.  You could watch it every day if you wanted to.  

It took a while for us to realize that the line was not only blurring but disappearing.  It took time, and technology.  No one who ever saw Star Wars on video could be fooled into thinking that it was the same as seeing it on the big screen.

When StarWars was re released in theaters, prior to Episode I the Phantom Menace coming out, I took all my kids to see it.  They all thought they'd seen Star Wars.  They realized during that opening, seat shaking shot of the bottom of the Emperial Cruiser as it cuts down from the top of the screen that they hadn't seen anything.

Tv; movies. Two different mediums.

Then came dvds.  The picture was so much better there was no comparison.  We could watch entire seasons of tv with no commercial interruptions, skipping all music and credits as well.  I watched the first season of 24 as though it were a reallllly loonnng movie.  Video shrunk movies down to tv size and dvd's and large screen sets made tv as big and beautiful as the movies.  On my giant wide screen tv, watching Star Wars at home is now just as good as in the theater. 

All this crossed my mind while watching Darth Vader attack and capture Princess Leia's star ship in the opening sequence of Star Wars.

  What a great flick.  I started it at 4:00 and it ended before Jay had even started dinner, so of course I popped in The Empire Strikes Back.

I think that's my favorite of all of them.  Han and Leia were so hot.  What went wrong when it was time for Padme and Ani?  They were just icky.  Anyway, I took a break to eat dinner.  Jay had planned on cooking the tilapia outside but by evening it was thundering and pouring so he fried it inside instead.  It was delicious.  Is anything better than fried food?  Even Josie, who doesn't like fish ate two big pieces.

Oddly, Jay didn't care for it.

After dinner, I watched the Return of the Jedi.   It's interesting to catch little things that mean something now that we've all seen the first three eps.  When Obi-Wan says "Ani was a good friend", when Yoda refers to Obi-Wan's student, why Obi-Wan just stood there and let Darth Vader strike him down...it all makes sense.

Okay, at least it's a good way to spend a rainy Sunday.

Time to go vacuum the porch.

 

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