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

MY MISCONCEPTION WAS THAT LUKE AND LEIA WERE MARRIED. I WAS 5 WHEN EPISODE IV MADE IT'S DEBUT. I IDOLIZED LUKE, BUT WHEN I FOUND OUT THEY WERE KIN TO EACH OTHER, I HAD TO ADMIT THAT WAS PERSONALLY SHOCKING! ESPECIALLY SINCE THE TWO KISSED IN ESB.

 

Must you post in all caps?

Anyway, when I was little I thought Han was Luke's dad or uncle or something. For some reason I thought they were related.

 

In ESB when Chewie is choking Lando, I alwas thought Lando was saying, "Just give me a chance to say Han." when he really says, "There's still a chance to save Han."

I always thought he was saying that because Lando was trying o say something about Han but couldn't get it out because he was being choked.

 

When I was a kid I thought Chewie was a gorilla.

 

Until the time of Special Editions in 1997 I always thought the battle of Hoth and the battle over the Sarlaac pit were the same...

I had this vision of AT-AT's on the sand with Luke jumping from sail barge to sail barge avoiding their canon shots!

Very weird.

 

Dark Vader

 

I don't think I really had many, because I was about 8 or 9 when I first saw it, and I had most of my senses by then. Although I wasn't terribly sure what Darth Vader really WAS, but I think that was kind of true with most people at the time. For a while I thought he was a human brain in a mechanical body... which wasn't that far from the truth. By ROTJ I was like "Ok, he's at least a head."

 

Well...I guess that RotJ was the best movie, and for me, for a long time, it was! I still like it of course, but I was two years old when SW came out so the first one I saw in the theaters was Jedi, because my mom wanted to see something else and dropped me and my sister and some of to see this instead. I was enamored, of course, with Han and the Ewoks were the cutest thing ever.

 

Standing in line for ESB is my earliest SW memory. Hot as hell, waiting in line around the side of the theater. I played with ANH era original toys well before then, but I don't actually have any memories of seeing SW in the theater prior to ESB, although I know I did.

 

Oh, one thing I do remember now, I saw the Ewoks movies before I saw the Star Wars movies. Then later on I saw Ewoks in ROTJ and I was like "The Ewoks are in Star Wars?! Woah."

 

Lol, this is such a good topic! Here's a few I had that no one else has;-
1. I thought that there were 2 darth vaders, one called darth vader, the other one dark vader.
2. I thought that Dark vader had died in ANH, and that Darth was a robot version of him.
3. I thought that cloud city was the second death star, because someone had said to me before I saw ESB that they built a second one.
4. I also thought that Darth Vader (the robot) used magnets to throw all those pieces of metal in the duel with Luke, and that the reason that Luke could make his lightsaber come to him was because his robotic hand had a magnet in it.
5. When they talked about 'The Force' I thought they meant gravity.
6. I used to think as well that snowspeeders were called TIE- fighters because they tied up the legs of the AT-ATs.

lmao, I was pretty young at the time;- about 6 or 7. Still, I guess I must have been pretty messed up.

 

^Lol, thats a pretty funny list.


I use to think the Ewoks were related to Chewie.

 

I've posted on here before with my misconceptions, but I just remembered another.
When C-3PO introduces himself, I thought he said, "My name is C-3PO & this is my "concubine" R2D2 (real word: counterpart)

 

What really happened; Luke said "I can't see a thing in this helmet", and an officer was about to go in the elevator with them, Han stopped him and pointed to Chewie making a "sorry, I wouldn't use this lift right now, see? Wookiee."

What I thought...

When Luke says "I can't see a thing in this helmet" an officer got suspicious by Luke saying this and walked up to them, ready to blow their cover. Han stopped him, pointed to Luke and made an "Ah well, what can you do?" motioin with his hands - which satisfied the suspicous officer. Whew! They almost got caught!

 

Amillion Falcon, is what I thought it was.

 

I thought that the badges/medals/nametags/whatever on the Imperial officers' uniforms were their life bars, like in a video game. You know, the ones that look like [][][][]

I was young and addicted; let me be! XD

 

1.) I thought Darth Vader's name was Dark Vader and I believed he was a robot (I thought the switches on his chest powered him on and off).

2.) I was also under the impression that "Dark" Vader was the big boss in charge and that Grand Moff Tarkin wasn't giving Vader the props he so obviously deserved.

3.) I too believed lightsabers were called lifesavers (made perfect sense to me at the time)

4.) For some reason I was under the impression that C3PO was a security droid and when he wasn't hanging out with Artoo, he was buddies with a silver protocal droid (I think I must have been creating my own fan-fiction as a kid because I have no idea how I came up with that misconception)

5.) Because of their glowing eyes I thought Jawas were small droids or cyborgs.

6.) I also considered stormtroopers as droids (the whole movie was just full of robots!) and I couldn't understand why the bad guys were wearing white!

7.) Whenever I heard the word "tractor beam" I immediately thought of farm machinery.

8.) Chewbacca, wookie...it all meant Bigfoot to me!

9.) I thought Darth Vader actually disintegrated Obi-Wan Kenobi with his red "lifesaver"

10.) During the movie, I believed Luke would get the girl and they'd be married and live happily ever after. (ewwww)


Well, that's all the Star Wars misconceptions that I can clearly remember.

 

When Lando was explaining that this was all a trap for them, he says that Vader was after Skywalker, and to me, Han sounded like he said: "Who?"

I was thinking: "Luke! Luke, man! You mean to suggest that you spent 3 years of your life with him and NOT know Luke's full name???"

But I think he actually says: "Luke?", but again, why would he say it? Shouldn't he know that the guy's name is "Luke Skywalker"?

 

I'm Still Confused about mine... On the Storm Trooper helmets, is the line right below the eyes supposed to be the mouth, or is it the little black thing between what looks like lights on the bottom of the mask?

im so confused

 

I thought that Jabba was like 5 times his actual size (Thats how terrified I was of him), and I also thought that HE ate Oola (Twi'lek dancer) rather than the Rancor.

 

"But I think he actually says: "Luke?", but again, why would he say it?"

I think his response was meant to sound like "Luke, why would Vader want Luke??"
He isn't aware of the connection b/w them.

 

For some reason, which escapes me, when I was a little kid, I was told that Darth Vader was burned up due to having been dipped in a boiling hot vat of peanut butter. Why did I believe that? I guess it was just crazy enough to be true...

 

Boiling hot vat of peanut butter...

 

I was convinced that stormtroopers were droids (in spite of all evidence to the contrary). I was also thoroughly confused with the whole "Darth Vader with Luke's face in Dagobah" I mean, was it really Vader? why did he appear again later if he was dead? I just didn't get it

 

After the last line of Kenner figs came out, I was told by a friend that after ROTJ they would be putting out a fourth movie called (obviously) Power of the Force, wich I waited for patiently for a long, long time (I haven't given up hope, though)