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

I thought Jawas were like sheepdogs with hoods on them...very cool indeed...imagine my surprise when they weren't...LOL.

 

In ANH, when Luke is eating with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, I thought they were eating Kicks cereal. Don't ask why...

Also in ANH, when C3PO is throwing corpses into the fire at the jawa massacre site, I thought he was throwing dirty laundry in.

In Return of the Jedi, right before Han Solo accidentally hits Bobba Fett's jet pack and sends him flying to his death, he says "Bobba Fett? Bobba Fett? Where?!" I thought he said "Boomarang? Boomarang? Where?"

 

*giggles at all the comments before her*

I remember watching the first Star Wars when I was about 11. I am sad to say that I thought Yoda was Gonzo's great, great grandmother.

 

When I first saw Return of the Jedi I thought the Rancor Keeper was played by Donald Pleasence

 

Just what WERE they eating!?!?!?

 

I thought that Luke and Leia would hook up.

 

lifesavers- i thought it was just me

 

In ESB when C3PO see the other protocol droid in cloud city And says something like "There's a friendly face...." the other protocol droid says E CHU TA or something, I used to think it said............ Eat your butt! As a young kid laughing our arses off, my friends and me would almost get kicked out, everytime....................

Good Times!

 

Yeah, I definitely thought Luke & Leia would hook up. It took a long time to learn (at my expense through my teens) that the nice guy never gets the girl.

I also thought they were "lifesavers."

Also, it took until 1978 to see the movie (Thanks, Mom!), so much of my knowledge of ANH was from the blue and red cards and other collectibles. A friend had put them in narrative order for me, and that's how I learned the story.

Thing is, the cards also produce a lot of misconceptions--some misspellings and some misconceptions. Can anyone recall some of these?

 

...Oh, and I never believed Vader was Luke's dad. I thought it was a manipulative lie, and that "Revenge of the Jedi" would be about the return of the King of Alderaan, a noble Jedi. Hey, he did command Obi-Wan, after all. This misconception remained even after they changed it to "Return."

 

RE: "stormtroopers are droids issue" - Never thought they were droids - but in 1977 (I was 5 years old) I was told by a "reliable' source (my 4 year old cousin) that they were, in fact, DEAD people ressurected to fight on behalf of the empire. I believed this for MONTHS!!!! The result of a troubled childhood I'm sure.

By the way that entry about Oola the slave girl being turned into a frog and eaten by Jabba (lol).... well I bumped into her last year (Femi Taylor) - in Milton Keynes!!! (anyone who knows Milton Keynes in the UK is laughing right now!)... Had a chat over a cup of coffee - she recently had her third little boy - (I had met her previously when she was still heavily pregnant - that how we got chatting - I'm not a stalker of anything!). Not sure how young she was in ROTJ but she looks EXACTLY the same! bar the green skin that is...

Keep 'em coming - there has got to be some REALLY embarrasing ones out there... post them anonamously or start the admission with "My friend once thought..."

 

I think we all did, that was was story arc, and then when you realizae they're related, you almost throw up for thinking such thoughts.

 

Doesn't "Darth Vader" translate in Dutch into "Dark Father" anyway?.... or is that another misconception that I'm labouring under?....

 

The first one I saw was Return of the Jedi. My parents had taped it from some channel (this was back in the day when Tape Recorders were rare...in fact ours only fast forwarded the tapes...but I digress.) We didn't get the entirety of the movie...in fact it started after Han was rescued from Jabba the Hutt's. I was very confused.

- I always thought that when Jabba was strangled, it looked like he was trying to fly...I always looked for his wings.

- I thought the box on the back of the Stormtroopers the one that looks like this O-...I thought it said oil.
- I thought Ewoks were baby Wookiees
- Due to the wierd FX that ANH had, and their attempt at creating different angles with the Sabers, I thought that every time Kenobi's saber struck Vaders, it lost power...

that's about it.

 

I used to have the ideas when I was a kid that these were the concepts of what I thought of as a kid about ANH, TESB, and ROTJ.

Lightsabers were "lifesavers"
Darth Vader was Dark Vader
Lightsaber Colors mattered, Blue was the weakest, Red was the second, and green was the last.
That Artoo was a secretly evil scary portable trash-can.
Emperor Palpatine was some sort of Old Man with a magic staff.
That Jabba the Hutt and Pizza the Hutt were related (I got confused at one point with Space Balls LOL)
That Yoda was a old crazy doll, that knew Obi-Wan and such.
That C3PO was actually made of real gold which is why he fell apart so much LOL.
That Han Solo was going to turn to the Darkside.
That Beru and Owen were Luke's Foster Parents (I didn't hear the Uncle and Aunt thing at the time lol)
That Han and Luke had to eat the Taun Taun to survive on the Ice of Hoth.
I thought Lando was going to die along with the Falcon.
My thoughts were that Vader was going to attempt one last time to turn Luke to the DS after killing the Emperor (Didn't understand the concept of redempation at the time)
Obi-Wan's Lightsaber was failing in the fight with Vader, which is why he gave up (crazy I know)
That Darth Vader and The Terminator were related. (Because of the Voices)
Princess Leia was the boss of everything and everyone
That Tarkin was the boss of Vader and Vader was a push over.
Chewie was a Dog/Monkey Man
Arnold Schwarzenegger was playing Darth Vader in and out of the suit.
Luke was a hippie.
Obi-Wan was allowed by the Ghostbusters to live, because he was a good person. LOL. (I saw TESB after Ghostbusters obviously)


Thats pretty muc hall the misconceptions I had on the SW CT as a kid, Ages 6-9.


Ya as you can see I have some of the very basics obviously, but I also have some things very different.

I hated Artoo thought he was useless, except for being a trash can who looked scary LOL, and I always wanted to pour water down Vader's Breathing system because his breathing got annoying LOL. I hated Vader and wanted to fight him, as a kid.

Thats just my story as a kid who experienced the CT Trilogy.

 

during the Battle of Yavin in ANH, I used to think that every time they showed a TIE pilot, I thought it was Darth Vader, because they look so similar (espeically to a nine-year-old). then I got really confused when they showed Darth Vader still aboard the Death Star.

then later, when Vader is flying his TIE, it shows him moving his hand like he's turning something in front of him. I always thought he was unscrewing the lid to a canteen of water because he was thirsty.

and I also used to think that Jawas were the Sand People.

 

I remember in ESB when they are escaping Hoth in the Falcon there is a shot of chewie in this little room and there is steam spraying everywhere (right before "would it help if i got out and pushed"). For some reason i used to think that chewie was taking a shower.

 

Hence the question Do wookies take showers?




Emporer Gerner Dark Lord of the Sith

 

Before I was in to Star Wars, I thought the Millenium Falcon was the Death Star.


When I was about 7, ANH was on TV and my dad was watching it, and when the MF came on, I asked if that was the millenium Falcon, so my dad just turned around and said, "Ya think!?"

 

I thought Darth Vader was Dark Fader.
I thought lightsabers made people disappear when struck (i.e. Obi-Wan).
First time I thought the rebel soldier in ANH on Tantive IV was Han Solo.

 

Not my misconception but the misconception of a kid I knew who saw ESB the day before I did:

They saw the tiny hologram of Vader conversing with General Veers during the Hoth battle...

...and thought Vader's Force powers included the ability to make himself small.

I keep expecting him to pop up in the 'possible changes' thread and say "I hope they fix that."

 

"Millions of Oysters" - I thought that too up untill mabye only 5 or six years ago (he he he) also i thought that when Vader is choking motti i thought that tarkin said He's Spikling his poinkus ( this bickering is pointless) i know they arn't real words but when i was four years old i had no clue

 

I can relate to that. I thought the guy in the Mos Eisley cantina said "I have a dess-er-teez on twelve systems." I don't think I figured out that he said "death sentence" until I was in high school.

 

I don't know if anyone has listed this yet, but during the Obi Wan / Vader duel on the Death Star you'll notice that (because of the way they do the effect) it sometimes looks like Ben's lightsaber shrinks. At one of these moments Vader said, "Your powers are weak old man" Because of this I believed for the longest time that there was no "on" button for a lightsaber, you had to use the force to activate it and keep it activated. Since he was old and weak he couldn't keep his lightsaber up.

 

That's why they invented Jedi Viagra.



When I first saw ANH I thought Luke and Leia were brother and sister, oh wait. . .
I thought Vader and Boba Fett were brothers because they both wore full body suits.
I was also confused since Anakin's lightsaber is green in the training scene.
For the longest time, I tried to convince my parents if we could rent Episodes I-III (before 1999)
Not really a mis-conception but I always used to crack up when Uncle Owen said, "Hey! What are you trying to push on us?"
For some reason I recalled Porkins eating a hotdog before he died, and I was sad when he died.
I also thought Vader died because the Emperor pressed a self-destruct button before he was dropped down the shaft.