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Nienna_Narmolanya Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/5/05 9:52am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I was very, very little when I first heard Vader say to the Emperor: "He [Luke] could be a powerful ally." (That wasn't an exact quote.) I thought Vader said "L-I". So I turned to my brother and said, "Cool! So the good guys are Jedis, and the bad guys are L-I's!" He just shook his head. It was years before I found out why. -----signature----- "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert Goddard The Padawan Chronicles - http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/27250281/p1/?54
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MiaTiska Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/8/05 2:19am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	The biggest misconception I had about SW as a kid was that it sucked. See, as a kid I never saw any of the OT movies completely, or in order. One day I'd wander in while my brothers were watching the end of ANH. The next time I'd see the middle of ESB, then the middle of RotJ, you get the idea. I always tried to ask questions and ask what was going on, but my brothers got mad and would tell me to shut up. So, of course, I grew to hate Star Wars, because I could never figure out what the kriff was going on! I knew the basics, and who the good guys and bad guys were, but chronologically and story-wise, I was completely lost. -I felt that Yoda was slightly annoying, he was supposed to be this great Jedi Master, but he acted like a retarded muppet at first for no reason, then kept withholding important information from Luke about his family that could've helped him. -The cave scene always confused me. I couldn't figure out why it was Luke's face in the helmet and it freaked me out. Finally someone in my family explained it to me. -I always thought that when Vader and the troopers board Tantive IV at the beginning of ANH, that Leia was, for some reason, already on the Death Star. Or something. It took me forever to realize that she wasn't, and that that was her ship. But it still totally looks like the interior of the Death Star. I finally saw the OT, in order, when I was a teenager, and things made so much more sense after that. There were scenes I finally saw that I could never recollect ever, ever, ever seeing before. And even when I watch the OT now, I still forget those scenes are in there, because I somehow always missed those when I wandered in to watch as a kid. Skimming this thread has made me realize how many misconceptions I'm still holding onto and don't even realize it, because the scenes I saw over and over were so ingrained into my head as a kid. LOL. -Mia -----signature----- MiaTieska's sock http://www.ltue.org - KJA & Rebecca Moesta @ LTUE 24, Feb. 16-18, 2006 http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=17863328 - Mischief & Mistletoe, co-writer Abby
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yoshifett Registered: Apr '04	Date Posted: 8/8/05 2:54am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I didn't realize that the titles actually had meaning. For example, I didn't think "The Empire Strikes Back" was a description of the film. It was just a group of words that signified that film.
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Lemmy Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 8/13/05 2:55am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Hello My misconceptions varied as a kid - sometimes I would understand things (like ESB's Luke-Vader Dagobah scene) then next time I saw the films I'd be utterly confused. My only lingering misconception was why Vader didn't shoot Luke's Xwing in the trench - it wasn't until a few years ago I realised Han had been shooting at them. All this time, I thought the TIE pilot next to Darth had swerved and crashed into him - even though it didn't explain Darth's "What?!)" or the red flashes. I thought Han had just been watching from a distance. A friend of mine thought Yoda's species was Jedi, the only true force-sensitive people, and they trained other people to use the force because they were dying out. He also thought the lightsaber blade colour depended on the user's force ability (even though that meant Obi Wan was as weak as Luke!). I always knew Star Wars was fictional, but I thought the planets, robots and ships were real - like the way I knew "Cagney and Lacey" was fiction but that New York, cars and criminals were real! I was heartbroken to find out that we didn't have ships to travel to other planets, and my only consolation was that at least the droids were real... Life was a steep learning curve when I was 4.
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Luke_Kenobi1 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 8/13/05 7:39am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid. - Date Edited: 8/13/05 7:40am (1 edits total) Edited By: Luke_Kenobi1
	I thought for a long time that in ROTJ when Luke wants to kill the emperor with his saber he just wantted to fight Vader because he had his saber up really quick. -----signature----- The oppression of the Sith will never return. Your plot to regain control of the Republic is over , you have LOST . Just because there are two of you does not asume you have the advantage.-Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus.
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Atte Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/13/05 8:10am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	well, The first SW movie I saw was TPM, and I was umm... maybe 7-9 years old, don't know. I ofcourse thought that everything was real :P that lightsabers existed and u know.... And then I belived: TPM I, ANH II, TESB III and ROTJ episode IV Also, my friends sayd DARK maul, and one of them thought dath maul will appear in AOTC in a wheelchair, and one of my friends used to say Maul was Anakin's father because schmi says somtehing liek "there was no father". -----signature----- kitara
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pink_saber_girl Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 8/13/05 8:33am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	My biggest misconceptions were probably the fact that I didn't think Obi Wan had died. I thought that all those 'ghosts' of Ben were the real deal. When I saw Return of the Jedi later on (I watched one a day for a week at my grandmother's house when I was six) I realized that they were ghosts. I cried too . -----signature----- You're like Poe wrapped up in a Valley Girl with a major shot of Southern Belle. I love you Sivy!
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VadersBBQ Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 8/13/05 1:39pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I'm 26 now. When I was about 7 years old, my original ESB was taped off of TV. The tape ran out right after Luke leaves Degobah.... I did have a complete version of ROTJ. And just figured that ESB ended with Luke taking off. It was about a year later I was at a Christmas party where the kids were watching ESB and I saw the real second half of the movie. I was so excited and it made so much sense. That's my Star Wars misconception as a kid. Brad
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Jin_Verde Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 8/15/05 7:12pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	As a long time lurker, I'm finally posting. The responses I have read so far are awesome. Obi-Wan was Obi-One. I saw ESB before ANH, because my parents though it would be too violent for me to watch when it first came out. I think I was 6. Anyway, I thought it was really strange that the final fight between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader seemed so tame after seeing Luke and Vader fight in ESB, but I rationalized it by thinking Vader was giving Obi-Wan a break because he was so old. Despite that, I thought then, and still think, Obi-Wan is the coolest Jedi. I thought Han was "the other" Yoda spoke of on Dagobah because women just didn't get to be Jedi. Now I know better. I also thought it was really uncool of Leia to play both Luke and Han. Then when I found out she was Luke's sister in ESB I was relieved and sad at the same time. Relieved because they found out in time, but sad because Luke seemed so lonely. Finally, my younger brother for years thought that Luke Skywalker lived in a weather station building at an airport near my parents home in rural upstate NY. It was one of the white ones that looks like a half-buried bottle/bowling pin and might look like the entrance to the Lars' home on Tatooine. Anyway, he totally believed that Luke was in my class at school (I did not play any mind tricks on him, cross my heart...) and just about every day he would ask if he could meet Luke. I always told him no, that he was too busy working with his uncle on the farm. We still joke about it, but does teasing my little brother like that make me evil?
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Deaka Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 8/15/05 8:07pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	These are so funny! Mine's not very amusing, but I'll contribute anyway... The first time I saw Episode 1, I was a bit unclear on who exactly Obi-Wan was and thought that his name was actually 'Padawan', given that the tall guy with the ponytail kept calling him that. I was about thirteen, I think... not exactly a kid as such, but a dumb enough misconception to qualify. -----signature----- Not quite as new as I look....
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ObiWan506 Title: Former Head Admin Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 8/16/05 11:42am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Dark_Guardian posted: When I was young I thought that... -The Death Star in ROTJ is the same as in ANH, it was just damaged from the first attack. Me too! DARTHFINGERZ posted: ^^ Still always makes me picture a scruffy looking Han out in a field herding nerf balls. -----signature----- If you have any questions about Christianity and/or Jesus, I'd love to talk to you. Please PM me. "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved!" Acts 16:31 Yes, I am a sinner. So are you. We all have a Savior.
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DARTH_MCMAUL Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 8/16/05 2:35pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I thought that the Jawas were Jedi knights as well, because they dressed the same as Ben Kenobi. Also, it took me YEARS to figure out that the guy Luke fights in the Mos Eisley Cantina said "I've got the DEATH SENTENCE on twelve systems." For some reason, I thought he said "I've got a dess-er-tease . . ." and had NO idea what that meant. -----signature----- Slan go foill, Darth McMaul P.S.--Real Jedi wear KILTS! www.InnerMissionEntertainment.com
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Jabba_The_Hutt_123 Registered: Oct '03	Date Posted: 8/17/05 7:16am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	My only actual one was that I DS2 was number 1 damaged I also didnt get the new scene in TESB with Vader landing at the end on the Executor. This is because when I was younger I used to watch SW all the time and I never saw that scene is the SE, even though I saw them jump into hyperspace and Luke getting a new hand. I must of watched it about 15 times when I finally saw this scene. How did I manage that I ask?
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JeremySolo Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/5/05 9:34am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid. - Date Edited: 9/5/05 9:35am (1 edits total) Edited By: JeremySolo
	Well, I had always thought Obi-Wan was Obi-One, and that Chewie was Tooie! I also never got the line "We don't have time for anything else" until I was about 13. Then all of a sudden I was like "Oh! That is so hilarious" -----signature----- [img http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/JeremySolo/Sigs%20and%20Avs/rots_rotate1.gif [/img] [img http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/JeremySolo/Sigs%20and%20Avs/faces2.png [/img] [b][i]Proud Fan Of[/i][/b] [img http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/Jer
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JF_052 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 9/6/05 7:27pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Chalk up one more for "Dark Vader" (Darkest of the the dark lords of the Sith). I didn't actually sit and watch the movies until I was in fourth grade. Before then... -I thought Leia asked Luke to come save her in her hologram (much like in the Japanese NES game by Namco), then later thought it was "Help me Han Solo. You're my only hope." -I thought the ewoks special was a legitimate sequel. -I thought the battle of Hoth was in ROTJ. -When Luke chopped off Vader's hand and looked at his own hand, I thought the reason it had a black glove on was because he was heading for the dark side (nevermind the fact he was already wearing that glove ). -For I short time, I pronounced "Jedi" as "Jeti". Years later, I rented "Shadows of the Empire" for Nintendo 64, and one of the profiles already on it was "007 Jeti" :/ (No, it wasn't mine) -I thought all three movies were based on books, and the first three books weren't good enough to be made into movies.
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