As I type this, it’s been maybe a couple of hours since I finished watching Tales of the Underworld, the latest animated offering from Star Wars.
And I’m still a bit of a wreck.
The first three episodes featured fan-favorite Asajj Ventriss, while the last three episodes featured another fan-favorite, Cad Bane.
All the episodes were good, but when I got to the final episode and realized what they were doing, I simply could not believe it.
Minor spoiler here, but basically they were paying tribute to High Noon.
Which is one of my Dad’s favorite movies. The one that both of us would stop what we were doing and watch if we found it playing on some TV channel.
There so many scenes in the episode that echoed the movie.
By the end, I was tearing up, but smiling, and about an hour later, thinking back on the episode, I began to sob and totally lost it.
Dad’s death anniversary is a week away, a day before Mother’s Day this year, so that combo would inevitably do me in emotionally, but of course it triggered a week early because of Star Wars.
While watching a reactor’s first viewing of the original Star Wars today, I was reminded of something I asked my Dad when I was 10:
“What was your favorite part of Star Wars?”
Dad told me that he liked the part where Luke blew up the Death Star.
I think he would have liked this episode of Tales of the Underworld, even though he didn’t watch much of the animated shows.
And to be totally honest, I felt him there, watching that episode with me, as we always did with High Noon.