Always in my heart

[mrissa]

Twenty trick-or-treaters cleaned us out of candy. It's the most we've ever had. But that's not why I'm posting here.

On the way back from our early dinner at our favorite Vietnamese place in the south suburbs, we saw the very best thing. First we saw Darth Vader and his daddy, walking down Duckwood. A few feet ahead of them strode a tiny Princess Leia. She was clearly Princess Leia; she had the white dress and the braid-buns on the sides of her head. She had the purposeful walk of a four-year-old who knows where she is going and is going to get there in her own good time, which will be faster than everybody else's good time by several minutes. She also wore a brown Jedi robe over the top of it. In one hand, she clutched her plastic pumpkin; in the other, a light saber.

She was Princess Leia the Jedi.

I have said before that the part that always gets me at the end of Galaxy Quest is the bounce of the little blonde fangirl when the crew crashes the ship into the con. I am that girl's bounce, and I always will be. But this is me, too. I am always the tiny purposeful hand that's clutching the light saber and not only will not but cannot hear any objections to her having it. Princess Leia the Four-Year-Old Jedi is perfectly prepared to kick the butt of any naysayer who tries to point out that this is not canon; this is her light saber, and she is Princess Leia, and you wanna make something of it, buddy? She thought not.

Yeah. Yeah.

(timprov wants to suggest that if you have one child dressed as Darth Vader and one child dressed as Princess Leia, you really need to have or borrow a baby to dress as an interrogation droid. I admit this would be awesome.)

Comments

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

GAH, the cute.

i haven't seen Galaxy Quest, but i might have to to see the little girl bounce that is mrissa.

i got a compliment on my candy-giving costume tonight. (i'll probably post this later.) a 12-year-old girl said my costume was "tight." i'm sure you know this but that is 12-year-old-Californian for "freaking awesome." she said i was tight three times.

i am noah lowry, (http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x314/amazninazn303/sf%20giants/346.jpg) SF Giant, complete with eyeblack and lipsticked birthmark.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. Tight.

I love Galaxy Quest. The ending always makes me cry. A lot of people don't understand that, because it's a comedy with a happy ending, but there it is. I recommend it in all sorts of moods.

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Me too. I can't watch that movie end without tears running down my face.

I tell people it's because I'm laughing.

[tanac.livejournal.com]

Me three. (although I don't bother telling people anything)

I can't bear to watch it right now - I'm so far away from fandom, or fannish sorts, and I miss it a lot.

[laurel]

The ending always gets to me too.

I happened to see that movie in a packed theater, at some sort of sneak preview or something (not for press, but one of those public previews) and that was pretty awesome. Most of the time I don't care for being in a crowd at a movie theater, but in this case it was fab because people were cheering and just way into it. Applause at the end, the whole bit.

And it was all so unexpected because I really had heard very little about the film so had no idea what we were in for. A fabulous pleasant surprise.

[lutzethesweeper.livejournal.com]

I've been jonesing for that movie for a week now. Guess it's time to cave in. I love that story - thank you immensely for sharing it :)

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

I like the way timprov thinks. :D

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Our best was a four year old female Incredible Hulk. She was fierce! And not Tyra Banks "fierce" but seriously hardcore ferocious!

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Wait, Darth Vader and his daddy? I thought it was Luke whose father featured prominently in that series?

Yeah, well, it would probably cause costuming problems, trying to get the size right and all that.

[lutzethesweeper.livejournal.com]

Dress the father up as Luke, and it's a Star Trek Time Travel Episode - Star Wars crossover episode!

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I discovered, at the department party, that I should not be allowed to give out candy. I answered the door once, got a lackluster trick-or-treat, demanded a better one (I pulled the candy bowl away), then was asked for more candy ("You didn't give me one!" "Can I have another?") so... I threw three bits in the air and told them to fight for them.

The department party had a great many very geeky costumes, but very few children. Alas.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

And our Yoda had stolen a clone trooper blaster and was blasting merrily away at all 40 comers-for-candy that we had at our house.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Awesome.