The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid.

Until I bought the DVDs last September, I always thought that the line Lord Vader uttered after killing Captain Antilles was "Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans! And bring me the hostages, I want them alive!"

The line was actually "And bring me the passengers, I want them alive!"

 

Hostages...passengers...it's all just details to Lord Vader.

 

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Ok..i'm an oldschool Star Wars fan. I saw ROTJ in the theater in 1983, and remember distinctly seeing 'lots of green' fly by me. My dad and I sat in the 5th row.

Okay so some misconceptions..

A big one was me calling the Tauntauns 'wontons'...

Called the Lightsabers 'Lifesavers'..

Even as a little kid, I wondered what Obi-Wan was thinking when, after seeing the dead Jawas, he said 'Only Imperial Stormtroopers are (so precise, something to the effect)'....and then, seeing in all 3 classic movies, exactly one stormtrooper hits one of the main characters, Leia at the Battle of Endor..that's kinda it!

Always called the AT-ST 'chicken walker'..

called the known characters by thier original names Pruneface, Snaggletooth before Lucas renamed them something official.

I saw my dad had recorded the Star Wars Holiday Special, and in it, for those that haven't seen it, Bea Arthur is a Mos Eisley cantina bartender, and I thought Golden Girls would have on Star Wars aliens once or twice.. (the closest they came was having Leslie Nielsen, but..lol)

I didn't know the name to my Admiral Akbar figure, so I called him 'Popeye' because of his forearms..he was the hero and protected the other characters..

When I saw the 'special editions' in theaters in the late 90's, a lot of sexual references I'd not noticed before came up, mostly from the Emperor..
(as he pets the lightsaber)..'you want this, don't you?'
(closes his eyes)' i can feel the anger swelling inside you'...

what a creepy old dude!

If I think of more, I'll post em too. This is the longest blog i've ever seen!

 

Just remembered one - kind of obscure but I used to think, when Han and Luke manned the Millennium Falcon guns in ANH I thought the guns were on the side of the Falcon, at the ends of the long tube like structure in the middle and not at the top and bottom of the Falcon.

 

Ok tell me if im crazy but for years ive had this image in my mind of Darth Vader doing a public service commercial(Boys Club or something)from Tarkins conference room.Anyone know about that?

 

ok heres one!!! anybody remember the Energizer Bunny commercial? Darth Vader was hitting the bunny with his lightsaberand Vaders battery went dead. Anyone remember that?

 

To clarify the 'Cave' scene in ESB...

Dagobah is naturally a very Force-strong planet, apparently. This 'cave' that Luke went into really didn't posess anything inside it of speciality, except Luke's apprehensions, fears, and worries once he went into it. It reflected upon him. In much the same way a Jedi Padawan faces the final Trial of the Mirror, Luke faced his. His was the form of Vader, of which he struck down in fear, without thinking. If you rememember, he ignites his 'saber first.
Doing so, and not knowing his full potential, he decapitates this Vader force ghost, and sees his own face reflected back at him from the damaged mask. Basically, for those that didn't get it, it's Luke's test to basically learn 'dont over-react without thought, and don't let emotion rule you, or you'll face the same fate your father did.'

It was a very odd scene for the movie done in a literal way, which puzzled me when I was little, too. I got it a few years later though.

 

One of my biggest misconceptions focused around what the Jedi had been before Episode 4..

For some reason, I thought they all wore black like Luke did when he believed himself to be a Jedi.

I ALWAYS ALWAYS thought Jedi Knights used blue lightsabers and Masters used green. Since Kenobi failed with Anakin, I thought he'd been demoted to Knight and had to use blue.

When Kenobi talks about Luke's father bieng a good friend and a great pilot, that's all I could connect to. I assumed when, if ever we saw Anakin, he'd be in a jumpsuit much like Luke's X-Wing orange suit, with helmet and all...and that he just happened to also be a Jedi.

I thought it was ' Lock ass-falls in attack position'..

My best friend was so, SO angry that Han Solo said 'I'll see you in Hell!" In ESB...he argued that if it was 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away", they wouldn't believe in Christianity..(yeah he was 6 when he argued this...very astute, logical..ANAL kid Nick was..lol)

It still annoys me to no end that, since Sebastian Shaw (played Vader in the films) only could gesture based on visual cues and couldn't hear in his costume, that he kept gesturing as he was to be 'speaking' in the Death Star conference room, just before Tarkin says something about killing Leia and the scene jumps to the 'Falcon, I believe. If you haven't noticed it, go watch the scene, and watch Vader continually gesturing with his left hand after James Earl Jones was done delivering the lines.

Vader never scared me, cause he looked really rigid and stuck in his costume. I was more afraid of the Rancor monster.

 

When I first saw RotJ I thought Darth Vader was the Emperor, and I thought Palpatine was a witch.

 

I also thought that they said lightsavers... and that's all I can think of...

 

I thought the line "Lock X foils in attack position"
was "Lucas falls in a tac precision"

 

Ummmm, Order_66_Jedi_Outlaw.... It was David Prowse who played Darth Vader in most of the OT, not Sebastian Shaw, who only played the redeemed, older, Anakin Skywalker for like 2 minutes at the end of ROTJ.

I'm surprised no one caught this...

 

Another misconception!

 

I didn't understand the importance of the Jedi. I thought they were some crazy small cult that nobody new about.

 

When I first saw Star Wars back in 1978 I remember believing that the way Obi-Wan disappeared when he was struck down by Vader was kind of the standard effect of the lightsaber. Anyone who was struck down by a lightsaber would disappear. Somehow I managed to overlook the fact that there was an arm cut off in the Mos Eisly Cantina earlier in the movie and that did not disappear.

"Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is."

 

I would call lightsabers... mostly lifesaver, and sometimes i would think "oo maybe they are called lightsavers or lifesabers" it confused me so much. Me and my friend would make "lifesavers" out of rolled up newspaper.

I would never ever watch the ending of Rotj or the ending of Esb cause they were scary to me because of the fights. Seeing Luke being tortured with lightning and the lightning running across his teeth still gives me chills.

And in ANH when c3po is walking alone in the dune sea and he sees "a transport" i thought the little flashy thing where he looks was another droid and i remember saying why does he say transport when its a droid. Even though when the scene cuts away he is in a "transport"

 

If you haven't noticed it, go watch the scene, and watch Vader continually gesturing with his left hand after James Earl Jones was done delivering the lines.


That's because there's more to the line. It was cut.
Read the novel.

 

You're all going to laugh when I say it, but I never really had any misconceptions about the trilogy because I studied them in school.

No joke.

My 2nd grade teacher was a big fan, and we studied them like we studied books. I remember writing an essay on Han Solo's character change. (I went to a private school, obviously. The gov't would never fund something this silly.)

I had seen the first two movies before the class, and I'm sure I was confused about a few things, but the class sort of set everything straight for me so that I can't remember any confusion.

 

ReallY

*is jealous*

 

So I could've sworn I posted mine when this thread first started, but it seems I was mistaken...

Anyway, the only big misconception I had was in ESB. Right after Han gets frozen, Lando puts his hand on the carbonite and checks the monitors to make sure Han's alive. It took me until I was about sixteen to realize that he was not checking for Han's pulse.

 

OK, bearing in mind I grew up with SW and first saw ANH in the cinema at age 5...

I called Lightsabers 'Life savers' for a couple of years.

I called X-Wings 'TIE Fighters' and visa versa. This mix up occurred because my folks used to by me the Star Wars comic before I could read very well and my Mum used to read them to me at bed time. I remember there was one panel in an early comic that had a squadron of TIE Fighters zooming down out of the sky and the dialogue box on this panel mentioned something about 'rebel X-Wing Fighters' so I naturally assumed that those Imperial fighters were called X-Wings!

I also swore blind that Stormtroopers were robots until my friend showed me his copy of the SW novelization by George Lucas where it states categorically that they are humans in armour. I was about 10 when I found that one out and up until then I always thought that the 'OII' sign on the Stormtroopers back actually said 'Oil'...and that this was where you topped them up with oil.

Incidentally, that same friend of mine with the SW novelization used to call The Force 'The Power' when I first met him. I soon put him straight through...LOL

"Use The Power Luke!"

 

I thought Star Wars was cool.

 

My first moment of confusion happened when I first saw TESB in the theater. I saw the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and thought nothing of it. Then the STAR WARS logo blazed onto the screen with the familiar music behind it and I thought the theater was playing ANH by accident!

I was a goofy kid, what can I say?

 

I thought the dancer in Jabba's palace got turned into a frog. In fact, I'm disappointed that this wasn't the case. It would've been scarier.

I thought when Han comes up from the carbonite freezing chamber that he came up trapped in something like a phone booth and was flattened out when he got pushed over.

Until I got a promotional card for the special editions, I thought the Death Star in RTOJ was the remnants of the original death star and was being repaired.

For a long time, I thought Darth Vader was a version of Luke from the future. I based this on the dagobah cave sequence and Luke looking down at his hand after cutting off Vader's. After seeing Back to the Future, it seemed to make sense.

I thought Star Wars took place in the same universe as Spaceballs. For a long time I thought Jabba was the same person as Pizza the Hut.

I also thought that the Imperial Guards were Cylons. I obviously had trouble distinguishing between different things I had seen.

I thought the woman's was Mom Mothra and Boba Fett was Boba Fat.

 

When I saw RotJ in my younger years, I for real felt like when Leia was Jabba's prisoner, that she was a sex slave and that it was an extremely pornographic part in the movie. Therefore I always saw Star Wars as spaceporn-movies when I was a little kid.

Sorry about that, fellow fans! I can tell you that I have grown up a lot since then hehe

Geez!