Questions You Didn't Know You Needed The Answer To
Number One - What did Fathers Ted and Dougal make of Star Wars: A New Hope?
Courtesy of Neon magazine and Cardinals Linehan and Matthews.
Father Ted
I’m a huge fan of the film. Not one moment goes by in the day when I’m not thinking about Han Solo, Chewbacca, the woman and the other man and the man with the beard. Interesting story actually but Father Jack seems to be able to undersand both the squeaky robot and Chewbacca. Every time Chewbacca says something, Father Jack laughs and shakes his head in admiration. I think we’re losing a lot of the humour in translation
It’s a very, very good film. I can’t understand why they didn’t make any sequels. I first saw it at an afternoon screening in Wexford and there were loads of children shouting and jumping all over the place and generally having a bit of a laugh. It was impossible to hear anything. But even though you couldn’t make out any of the dialogue, the story was so powerful that you could still follow it. You knew instinctively that everyone on the Battlestar Galactica were the good guys and everyone else wasn’t.
Father Dougal
When did I first see Star Wars? What? I don’t understand the question? What are… With the big dogs?! And the robots?! That thing?! That was a film?! Ah, thank God. Oh, brilliant! It’s just so realistic. You just think - this is all mad stuff. It couldn’t really happen and yet there it is, actually happening before your eyes. Sometimes I think it’s a lot more believable than the religious thing (Father Ted: I’m going to have to stop you there, Dougal…)
Life on other planets? Well, the latest evidence from Mars suggests that there is definitely life on other planets besides Earth (Father Ted: No, it doesn’t, Dougal…)
so I suppose, why not? But would they all have their own God? Or would he be the same fella? Best not to think about it too much. You could go a bit mad.