Well, Naturally, I'm Watching Star Wars

I'm breaking in a new computer, after all. (New to me, a refurb'd Mac.)

So, there's this bit (I'm sorry to report I'm watching the SWs I have on DVD, which means, yes, the "prequel trilogy", but, really, I'm reading this *awesome* thing by John McPhee called "Encounters with the Archdruid" -- so, so cool -- while it plays and I download the cross-platform word processor Abiword) in Phantom Menace, after the kid wins the race thing, and Mom (Shmi) hugs him and tells him how proud she is --

and I thought to myself, this scene is all wrong. Wanna know why? Course you do.

Because she doesn't whip out a hanky and start spit-cleaning Anakin Skywalker's face.

Come on. She's a mom, for pete's sake. He's dirty as hell.

blah blah blah...
"Ani, I'm so proud of you"
[kid says something inane, I'm sure]
Mom whips out hanky, spits, starts cleaning.
"Moooooom!"

Now, *that* would've been a realistic scene.