So I finally saw Episode III

[innerSpaceman]

Ewoks are awesome. Yes, they are small, furry, loveable creatures. Aliens of a different scale aid in the illusion. Your choices are big or small. For sympathetic characters creatures, do you want nice or mean? And for friendly aliens, would you prefer scales to fur? It's very easy to complain about the Ewoks, and very shortsighted.


And it's such a canard to praise The Empire Strikes Back as the great Star Wars film. It's a dark, dark movie, in look and in tone, with the main characters quite miserable and unhappy throughout. It may be a good movie, but it can't be the best of the Star Wars films with such a downbeat mood and such paucity of fun. Sometimes I think Star Wars fans don't have a clue what makes Star Wars Star Wars.




Oh, was I going on about the original trilogy in a thread about the new films? Sorry, I'm just practicing pretending that the "new trilogy" never happened.