badgenome said:
I agree with a lot of that, but I think the general consensus is that the Ewoks completely clowned the Empire. I know George Lucas has massive boner for the Viet Cong and all, but the Rebel Alliance already fulfilled that role quite nicely. The Ewoks seem like a bridge too far, especially when they only exist for merchandising purposes (like a lot of the revisions to the ROTJ script). The original plan was to use Wookiees, and I think that would have been far preferable. Wookiees could have credibly defeated the Empire in guerilla warfare. A bunch of teddy bears, not so much. |
The only part that really seemed incredulous to me was when the Ewoks were beating them down with those little cudgels. You'd figure the armor would deal with that, but otherwise i found it rather believable: The Ewoks experimented with what worked and what didn't, like the hangglider dropping rocks on the AT-ST's, or trying to use tripline on the AT-ST's, until they got to the dual logs and the log avalanche, and while they were experimenting with what didn't work, they were fairly getting their asses kicked, or at least that was implied, even if only one (i think) Ewok was actually shown getting killed
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