Star Wars may be set a long time ago in a galaxy where explosions in outer space are audible, but what it’s actually about is broken families and absent fathers in particular.

In the films no one lives with their parents. Dad has almost always gone missing and young boys are always in search of surrogates. Young Anakin never had a father and his son, Luke Skywalker, is brought up by distant relatives.

In fact the emotionally stunted Luke spends the original three films seeking out his old man and is only reconciled to him in the last reel. George Lucas fans will know that Indiana Jones also suffers from an emotionally absent father; again they are only reconciled in the third film.

Now Lucas brings us another fatherless son in Attack Of The Clones: Boba Fett, who is due to prove such a nasty piece of work as a bounty hunter later on in the saga, transporting a captive Hans Solo around in what looks like a giant bar of chocolate. (Incidentally Master George is a father, of one, lucky boy.) Unusally Boba has a father when the film starts, space warrior Jango. The two even have a great relationship going until Jango is slain by Mace Windu. But what is the secret of this perfect father-son relationship?

The answer, spookily, is that Boba is a clone of Jango. Now I don’t know about you but surely the answer to the problem of alienated fathers is not simply to make sons who are identical, without a mind of their own?

The world is now full of men missing their children (Sunday afternoons have never been so fraught as kids across Britain are driven back to their mothers) but building better father-child relationships is not a matter of cloning our sons into compliance. Tempting as that might be, Georgie.