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pronker
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11/5/07 12:23pm
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 Don't tell anyone, but I thought there were going to be NINE movies! How gullible I was, at age twenty-four. Also, I thought at the time that the Holiday Special was kind of cute. Lucas was definitely reaching for a extremely young audience at Christmastime, well, why not? Now I cringe at it, though. I think it's Han Solo's character trying to be all warm and friendly. And not bringing it off well.
A weird sidenote: I saw ANH more than twice that summer (by more than twice) and the running-screaming-AHHHH! Han leaping through the blast door in the corridor scene was seen only once by me, because our local print was spliced at that point due to the film's extreme popularity and showing. For years, I remembered the troopers saying, "Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!" and then when I saw it on TV, pre-VCR days, I heard it again. Ahh, vindication. 
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TaunTaunHerder
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11/7/07 10:26am
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Why would you think that Boba Fett was Luke's brother because you thought he said "He's no good to me, Dad?", when Boba was talking about Han Solo, not Luke. Boba wouldn't have been telling Darth Vader that a particular person was no good to him becaue Boba was there to capture Han Solo. For a bounty. If he "was no good" to him, Boba wouldn't have chasing him.
But I guess your little undeveloped 8 year old mind didn't think of logical things like that.
Not that when I was 8 years old my mind was any more developed. It was probaly even less
developed.
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Darth Sin
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11/7/07 11:53am
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Some misconceptions I had about Star Wars as a kid were some of these:
1. I always thought Yoda said "Always emotion the future is" like others did.
2. Until ESB came out, I thought they were calling Threepio, "Creepio"
3. I thought the Vader that confronted Luke in the cave on Dagobah and was actually a robot that Yoda built to test Luke.
4. I thought Owen was once a Jedi like Obi-Wan, maybe moreso because of the fact that his clothes were like Obi-Wan's. Also I thought his dislike for Obi-Wan was because Obi-Wan succeeded as a Jedi and he did not because he was willing to fight in the Clone Wars.
5. For whatever reason I thought that Han Solo and Boba Fett were either once close friends or brothers. Don't have any idea why I thought this.
6. I thought the entire Galactic Empire was destroyed when the Death Star was blown up and Darth Vader would be all alone. Of course that was not the case when I learned about ESB.
I just have to throw this in, because I actually had some misconceptions about TPM before it came out.
1. In the TPM commercial previews, for whatever reason I thought Liam Neesom(Qui-Gon) was young Obi-Wan and Ewan McGregor(Obi-Wan)was young Anakin. I don't why I thought this and from those previews they would show I thought the movie was going to begin with the Clone Wars
2. I thought Darth Maul was going to be played by Samuel Jackson when I heard abou the movie coming out.
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TaunTaunHerder
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11/8/07 11:30am
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Please delete my previous post and this one too
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DarthSticky
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11/9/07 8:36am
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I used to think, as a kid, that the Emperor and Vader were both some kind of weird humanoid species because both had pure, super-white skin. Wierd, I know.
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Master_Starwalker
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I thought Vader was a zombie. 
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ServantOfWaru
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I was 8 when Episode 1 came out, and was about 6 when I saw the originals.
I thought Darth Maul was Darth Manual.
The first time I saw Empire, I got scared when we saw Vader without a helmet and didn't come back in until Boba Fett was escaping with Han, so I kind of connect those scenes together.
I thought that lightsabers absorbed the blasts, so when I saw Episode 1, I thought they had lightsabers that weren't as good that just bounced the blasts off.
I also thought that the line said (and I still say it to this day)
A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far Far Away, There Lived:
STAR WARS
I'm sure I have more....
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ServantOfWaru
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Lines I misunderstood:
"Now explode this thing and go home." (Blow this thing)
"Yeah..it's just what I thought, Flying Ox." (Mynocks)
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Blonde_Handmaiden
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I was an over analyzing sort of kid. I had to find hidden meanings in the main characters names. I thought Obi-Wan was spelled OB-1 and the B stood for Ben. Of course I only just recently figured out the entire plot line of the movies. I have watched these movies since I was a squealing infant in my father's arms, but I just thought that it was a cool movie because it had pretty lights and cool sound effects.
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Darth_MacDuff
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It would kind of hard for me to answer this one as I was a junior in high school when Star Wars came out in 1977. I did go see the movie at the theatre 17 times. A record for me. And here I am 30 years later and still a fan and now have a complete Darth Vader costume. The older I get the more fun I have. 
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Wraith20878
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The first star wars movie i saw was Empire Strikes Back. It was when they rereleased to theatres. My dad aparently found out about the re-release kind of late, A New Hope wasn't showing any more at that point. Anyway, I guess he decided that I didn't need to see A New Hope to enjoy Empire Strikes Back. I did enjoy the movie, but he had to explain things the entire time. I've been a huge fan ever since.
Lets see, I thought Darth Vader was Dark Vader, Jedi was Jet Eye, and that lightsaber was life saber. The scene wher luke fights a vision of his father completly went over my head. I also had heard people talking about the movies before I saw them, but I must have heard something wrong, I thought Vader was Luke's uncle. Empire is still my favorite movie.
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SuperNerd14
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12/19/07 7:34pm
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I used to think that Leia called Han a "Ner Furter" and that it was a real word. I used to be afraid to say because I didn't know what it meant.
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Well, that's probably still better than calling him a Frankfurter
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clio
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This is a little embarrassing to admit!
The first time I saw ANH was when it was re-released in cinemas in 1997 at the age of seven. Because of the evil kiddies at my school, I already knew that Vader was Luke's father and that Leia was his sister. So, I was happy to watch the film with the knowledge that I KNEW what was going to happen before it did. Unfortunately, I just got really, really confused.
I figured that Bail Organa was still alive after Alderaan went kablooey and that he greeted Leia when they returned to Yavin 4. Well, she never grieved or anything – what was I supposed to think?
I also thought that Leia’s real mother was Bail Organa’s wife and that she was alive (and on-screen) at the end of the film. I have absolutely no idea why I thought that she was there – maybe I feel asleep?! I thought that Alderaan was ruled by a matriarchal society and that she was in charge of everything and had ordered Leia to give Han and Luke medals for their work against the Empire.
I thought that she must have had an affair with Vader just before the Republic fell and had become pregnant, given birth to twins and then separated them so that no one knew whose children they were (which just makes NO sense whatsoever.) I figured that Bail thought Leia was really his daughter and that Leia’s mum was a real piece of work, manipulating and lying to everyone like that. I wasn’t sure if Vader knew about his children or not. I imagined that maybe he did know and had to pretend not to, to save them from the Emperor (who he didn’t really like, but had some kind of power over him). Or that perhaps Leia’s evil mum hadn’t ever told him the truth and he didn’t know. And that Obi-Wan and Vader had been friends and that they'd fought over Leia + Luke's evil mum and then Vader had turned to the dark side!
I thought that she was the real bad guy in the film, and that she and the Emperor were battling for power…
What a weird little kid I was! 
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