Trying to settle an argument with a friend of mine. Do you hate the Ewoks in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi? Or do you like them? Explain your reason below!!
Poll: Ewoks. Love them or Hate them?
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These uncivilized little balls of fluff played way to big of a role in defeating the empire.
A hate Lucas for having ******* teddy bears beating the most well armed galactic army with logs they just happened to have tied and ready for Imperial Walkers.....
Bull to the ****
Bull to the ****
They're kind of cutesy and silly sure.
But if you read them as either...
(a) a stand-in for tribal societies standing up against colonial empires
...or...
(b) or as a lesson that we all can do something to help defeat evil, if we are small and weak and simple, that heart and brains matters more than might...
...I think they are pretty cool.
Yes, some of the moments are stupid (who knew Stormtrooper armor was useless against blasters *and* small rocks thrown by creatures <4' tall or so). However, for every one of those, there is a cool one (the logs crushing the walker) or an emotive one (when one dies from a laser blast, his friend gets up to wave him up, and then realizes that the first is gone).
Wars have casualties. Even ones in the stars.
They are silly and pushing the line, but their society and role in the Battle of Endor is actually a pretty good bit of world-building on the part of The Return of the Jedi.
But if you read them as either...
(a) a stand-in for tribal societies standing up against colonial empires
...or...
(b) or as a lesson that we all can do something to help defeat evil, if we are small and weak and simple, that heart and brains matters more than might...
...I think they are pretty cool.
Yes, some of the moments are stupid (who knew Stormtrooper armor was useless against blasters *and* small rocks thrown by creatures <4' tall or so). However, for every one of those, there is a cool one (the logs crushing the walker) or an emotive one (when one dies from a laser blast, his friend gets up to wave him up, and then realizes that the first is gone).
Wars have casualties. Even ones in the stars.
They are silly and pushing the line, but their society and role in the Battle of Endor is actually a pretty good bit of world-building on the part of The Return of the Jedi.
