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FallOfKenobi Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/7/05 4:54am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Dark Vader Lifesavers And I thought that the name for a "bad Jedi" (later revealed to be a Sith) was "Ally". The Emperor and Vader said: If he could be turned, he would be a powerful Ally! -----signature----- "No. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me." --Luke Skywalker
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Darth_NWNN Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/8/05 9:48am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I thought that stormtroopers were robots- c'mon, who didn't? I also thought Jar-Jar was cool (LOL)!!! Darth NWNN
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Jedi-Ferret Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/10/05 5:59am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	"That's great kid don't get bacocky!" I still hear it that way till this day....Seriously!! That's what it sounds like Harrison Ford yells! I also belived that when Lando bent down to check the readouts on the carbonite slab in ESB he did something sneaky to it to make it possible to release Han in ROTJ considering (at least to me) it looked like Leia did the same thing to the controls when she started the de-freeze proccess. "Keep the brains sweetheart!" I also thought the droids were real robots after seeing a copy of 'The Making of Star Wars' original TV special, because they made it sound like they were real robots and had problems getting them to work complete with shots of crew members working on Artoos full or wires and showing 3PO falling over. It goes along with the fact that I originally thought that the actors that played the Brownies in Willowwere really 9in. tall after seeing another making of special in which they showed the infamous interview with Kevin Pollack thanking the crew for the 'Barbie Fun House'
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Nona_Cad Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 9/10/05 10:31pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	When I was 2 I went to Disneyland and rode on the Star Tours ride. This was well before I had ever seen the movies, so when I finally did see ANH, imagine my suprise that the Death Star was back, and then again in RotJ! Took my awhile to piece it all together. -----signature----- Today, on Lando Speaks It Up, tiny aliens and the Jedi who love them! The Color of a Lightsaber: http://boards.theforce.net/Beyond_the_Saga/b10477/18606573/?6
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LordofHavoc Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 9/11/05 7:45am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	When I saw the first pictures of Star Wars in 1978, I thought Luke was Han and Han was Luke. And the worst, I thought Chewbacca was OBI-WAN. OK,OK I was 7 at that time. B -----signature----- CRY "HAVOC" AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!!!
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Binder-lover Registered: Dec '03	Date Posted: 9/11/05 6:53pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I thought the Force was real and wasted many hours sticking my hand at rocks trying to lift them. -----signature----- Palpy's Little Darling A proud member of the Darth Vader Fan Club. Join it or die. I am also a Knight of the Palpy Milk! The Gold Palpy Society--Corrupting One Mind at a Time
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Jedi-Ferret Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/12/05 1:20am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	OH YES! For me the Empire State Building in NY when I was young turned into the Empire Strikes Building and I was certain that the building had something to do with ESB and that the duel between Luke and Vader happened at the top of the building.
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Darth_Morhs Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/12/05 3:15pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	When I was a kid back when the TPM had just come out, I had heard of Star Wars and most of the main characters, but I hadn't seen the movie. So I though Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie went back in time to stop Anakin from turning to the Dark Side. -----signature----- "If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you..you become something else entirely." "This is Caketown!" "We did what we were trained to do...what we were bred to do..what we we were born to do."
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Professor_Falken Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/13/05 12:56am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I was two when Star Wars came out. I remember around age 7 or 8 thinking that there was an alternate cut of Star Wars I once saw on television, pre-cable or home video for MY family. Some of my peers could even corroborate this notion, some even suggested it was shown in theaters. In my early twenties I rediscovered the Holiday Special. Wow, mystery solved. The other confusing bit was the Star Wars storybook's inclusion of photos depicting Luke watching the space battle over Tatooine, along with photos of Biggs. Had I actually seen these scenes in the theater? Of course not, but they became part of my version of the film until my uncle screened Star Wars on VHS for us. I just found this thread and there's no way I'm poring over 50+ pages of this stuff. So please excuse me if I'm not really bringing anything to the party, as it were.
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Professor_Falken Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/13/05 1:32am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	Oh and while we're at it...Talk about your misconceptions, here’s one for the books. Being that it’s 1983 when this article was originally published and home video hasn’t engulfed consumers just yet, this jerk (who gives no byline) feels it necessary to recap ANH and ESB before launching into the most erroneous load of crap I’ve ever heard/read about Star Wars. In this recap he refers to the Millennium Falcon as a “rocket ship, a kind of ‘My Mother The Car’ in space.” He describes Darth Vader as “effervescently evil” and the explosion of the Death Star is called a “huge outerspace fireball”. So now you have an idea of how insanely idiotic this insane idiot is really. So the following is a verbatim account of this idiot’s ‘Revelation of the Mystery Jedi Knight’ from a rag I discovered in my buddy’s garage back in the day called ‘Star Blaster’. This is for my Star Wars nerd crew who couldn’t believe my claim about this story until I finally tracked down a copy at Celebration III… “He is our last hope,” Kenobi says of Skywalker. “No,” Yoda replies, “There is one other.” The identity of this other Jedi knight will be pivotal in the third installment of the Star Wars epic. For this reason, Star Wars fans the world over have given endless speculation to the identity of the mystery Jedi knight. Thanks to the consultation of several experts and deep research into the lore and legend which makes up the Star Wars stories, we are able to deduce here the real and true identity of this knight. First, let us consider every possible candidate. Princess Leia and Han Solo spring to mind, of course, but there is a key fact which halts further supposition along those lines: Yoda has had opportunities to come into contact with both Solo and Leia, and has chosen not to. While Leia has royal lineage which might, given other circumstances, make her a prime candidate, her consistent demonstration of strong mortal bravery has lent her an air of normalcy which would not be consistent with her new identity as the last hope of the Jedi knights. Solo, the loner, is also out of the question. As a man who has always lived through his own cunning and shrewdness, he simply does not possess the air of majesty and magic necessary for such a hope. Other candidates come to mind: Lando, the leader, in exile, of Cloud City, and Darth Vader himself after a strong rehabilitation from the crippling injury which made him the evil and hated leader of the Empire. Lando, from the surface, appears a strong candidate. Through use of clever treachery, he managed to outfox the Empire in “The Empire Strikes Back,” leading to the escape of Leia and Luke. Without his help, the hero and heroine of this saga may have ended the sequel behind bars. Is he the saviour, the mystery knight? No. The Jedi knight must have other weapons at his disposal than sheer guile and foxiness. Isn’t this a large part of what Yoda taught Luke? Indeed, a Jedi must know how to tap into the Force in place of his own contrivances. A Jedi who learns to lean on the Force for support has nothing to fear. For Lando, the possibility of this type of redirection of resources seems small, especially when taking into account the large margin of time he needed to rally his own guards against the fearsome storm troopers. The mystery Jedi knight will not spring from any character previously introduced in the Star Wars saga. Rather, this character will rise from the planet where Han Solo is held, frozen into his carbon block. The planet, known as Guenter, will be the opening setting of “The Revenge Of The Jedi.” In the second Star Wars we were introduced to Yoda, an unconventional character by any standards. Few would have expected the stooped little green-headed creature to be a commanding mentor to Luke. Yet the teachings of Yoda were valued more than Luke will ever know or understand-the creature is a true prophet. Yoda’s race, nearly extinct at the time of Star Wars, is an ancient, extragalactic strain of being whose biological make-up is not easily understood. The creatures are reproduced in pairs-a type of couplet which allows for survival of the sparse race. When Yoda was born hundreds of years ago, he was born with an “ovoid,” a sort egg-like structure that glows a luminescent orange. At the age of twelve, in a manhood-type ritual, Yoda designed a rocket to launch the egg-a “brother” of sorts-into the cosmos. While Yoda lived out his life on the planet of his birth, the ovoid came to rest on another planet far, far away, where its natural defenses protected it from enemies and created an environment in which it could survive. The purpose of the ovoid becomes clear in “The Revenge Of The Jedi” when after a prolonged illness natural to the life-cycle of his people, Yoda dies and is buried in a spectacular funeral attended by all the rebel anti-Empire factions. At the exact moment Yoda’s life passes away, the ovoid, light years away, begins to open. The emerging being is called Adoy-the one who will continue where Yoda left off, a somehow reversed spirit of the former Jedi master that has distinctly different powers that Yoda, but has a destiny-a need to fight for what is good-that is identical to his soulmate. Coincidentally, the ovoid has opened on the same planet where the carbon block Han Solo is frozen in is being stored. It is in this way that Luke and Princess Leia meet Adoy, who they do not recognize at first as to heir to Yoda’s spirit. Adoy, after all, is bright purple, winged and large, with tumultuous laugh that ricochets through the planet’s snow-capped valleys; hardly a ringer for the reserved, green Jedi master. Luke and Leia see Adoy only as an ally who can help them rescue their friend. Adoy’s unique skill allows the super-being to change forms almost at will. Through this natural bent towards disguise, Adoy is able to penetrate the heavily guarded Sternaugh, the palace of marble and glass where Solo’s carbon block is stored along with the captive carbon blocks of generations of rebel threats to the Empire. Once inside the imprisoning palace, Adoy manages to sneak Luke in as well. The two together enter a spectacular underground vault, where they search out Han Solo’s carbon block. This is no easy task, in that generations and generations of carbon blocks are stored on top of one another, almost from the dawn of time. Luke is able to free many of the prisoners, many of them ancient colonial tribesmen, eager once more to undertake the fight against the Empire. By the time Luke and Adoy find Han Solo, they have, at their disposal, an entire army, where before they had only a dwindling reserve of rebel power to cling to. The army marches out of its vault, overwhelming its captors, and then goes on to take over a local Empire rocket port, where they manage to secure the Empire’s death machines for the disposal of the rebels. Caught up in this drama is the unfolding of the close relationship between Han and Leia. The separation has augmented their feeling for one another-but to give away more than this would be an injustice. So, the last hope of the Jedis, Adoy, the alter spirit of Yoda, does indeed triumph over great odds. But this is by no means the final word of “The Revenge Of The Jedi.” There are man more torturous turns in the path to the happy ending awaiting this Star Wars trilogy-the first of three we can expect in the next few years.” And there is so much more, the same unidentified author (the writing style is rather distinct) offers up “official” plotlines for then-unreleased Star Trek 3 (in this case the movie is worse than what is fabricated by this guy), Raiders Of The Lost Ark 2, and E.T. 2. Oof…
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DarthSeether Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 9/13/05 12:22pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	In the beginning of empire when Mark Hamil was all scarred up on the taun taun I turned to my dad and said, who's this guy dad? He looked so different after that car accident. Then when the wampa knocked him down, and the scene cuts to Han riding back to Echo Base, I thought that it was actually Luke's taun taun and it had escaped the wampa and was running back to the base in a panic shouting "AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAHHHHH!" all frantic over the attack. LOL. for years i thought that taun taun escaped. NOOOOO! i was so upset to find it had died. also in empire i thought leia said "Evacuate remaining grounds, Dad." instead of "Evacuate remaining grounds, Daf." I always thought she was a little brief and rude to her dad, lol. toward the end of empire i thought that boba fett had to be yoda's "other" because he was so cool. oh yeah, in ANH, i thought ben secretly killed uncle owen and aunt beru to trick luke into going with him. I developed that theory after ESB when "ben, why didn't you tell me?" was weighing heavily on my little kid brain. -----signature----- The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid: "As if millions of oysters had cried out in terror...and were suddenly silenced."
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Old_Brown_Shoe Registered: Sep '01	Date Posted: 9/13/05 9:39pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	It's "evacuate remaining ground staff," not "Daf." The Adoy thing sounds like someone was on hallucinogens at the movies and wandered from a screening of ESB sometime in the middle to a screening of ST II near the end. I love the detailed setup with absolutely no evidence for it. What were the plots for the other movies, out of curiosity? -----signature----- Nobody expects the Jedi Purge!
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Jedi-Ferret Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/13/05 11:50pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	BWAAA!? Ug...brain hurt!
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LORDeron_MAULer Registered: Apr '03	Date Posted: 9/14/05 4:52am Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	i thought the fighter pilot who first tried to destroy the death star said "Negative, it didn't go in. Just a takin on the surface." i didn't think what a "takin" meant i assumed it meant a scratch. -----signature----- "Zhang Fei is here!" - Zhang Fei "Feel the Force" - John Crichton "Whenever i ask about the severed limbs thing, George just laughs and doesn't give me the real answer." I am a fan of cancelled many TV shows...and i will have my Vengence !!!!!!!!
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Amaya_Unduli Title: WebMaster Fan Force Tasmania AU Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 9/14/05 10:37pm Subject: RE: The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.
	I used to see them all the time as a small kid, and a few times I saw 'Spaceballs' the spoof, and after that I used to get all the scenes confused and not know why. I would be watching ROTJ and waiting for the bit where Luke drops a ring down the grate whilst facing off Vader. I would become quite distressed when it didn't happen and I thought I was having mad delusions because I had this image in my head and I didn't know where it came from. Also, it took me a long time to realise that Owen and Beru were actually human. Whenever I saw their skeletons outside the hovel, I thought they were protocol droids whose artificial skin had burned off. As you can see, I was one confused kid. -----signature----- Head Prefect for Hufflepuff - Winners of House Cup 14 Head Girl in Hogwarts House Cup Version 13 Q: What's long and thin and something you write with? A: A noodle.
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