Direct object pronoun for a show

Question

I want to translate this English sentence to Spanish:

¿Luna, do you want to watch the Muppets and use the last fastpass for it?

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el ultimo fastpass para los/lo?

Answer 1

¿Luna, do you want to watch the Muppets and use the last fastpass for it?

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el ultimo fastpass para los/lo?

Para is a preposition, so it would be an object of a preposition, not a direct object. So los and lo are wrong.

Really you are using it to refer to the action of watching it, so I would lean to the neuter, although you argue for the show. It makes less sense to use it for the Muppets as a group of individuals to me- you didn’t say for them in English- you said for it.

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el último fastpass para él? él= the show. Not how I would do it, just to illustrate the pronoun as an object of the preposition.

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el último fastpass para ello? Ello= the act of watching the show. Still not how I would do it. This type of use of pronouns is not natural Spanish, whether technically correct or not. But this is probably what you mean by “it”.

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el último fastpass para esto? Esto= this, meaning the act again. Much more natural Spanish- to replace our it with this or that. This is how I would do it.

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el último fastpass para hacerlo? Just making explicit what you really are saying- Do you want to watch the Muppets and use the last fastpass to do it.

Luna, ¿Quieres mirar los Muppets y usar el último fastpass?

Another good option- what else would you be using the fastpass for, you don't really need to say it.

Just my opinion as a fellow learner, wait for other input.

I like the sentences that end in "para esto" and "para hacerlo" To me the English phrase was a little awkward. - Daniela2041, Jun 23, 2016

Thanks, it is nice to have my instincts confirmed. :) - bosquederoble, Jun 23, 2016

Thanks so much Bosque!! I forgot about demonstrative adjectives!! I like esto and the last option. The hacerlo sounds a little weird - Ramonaspiker, Jun 23, 2016

I use hacerlo quite a bit, and clearly Daniela liked it. But I bolded my favorites of course. :) - bosquederoble, Jun 23, 2016