Why are the Ewoks hated?

I like both Ewoks and Gungans..

 

Imagine the hate if Lucas had stuck with the idea in the rough draft to have Skywalker teach the primitive creatures (Wookees in the rough draft, later evolved to the Ewoks we know today after he changed the Wookiees) to fly spacefighters and destroy the Death Star. Battlefield Earth anyone?

As an aside, I just recently read the rough drafts to the original movie, so that's why my posts today refer to them. (I'm also somewhat new here, been a member for a few months, but have just decided to start posting.)

 

I don't know why they are hated. They may live in primitive surroundings but they are certainly advanced in ways of battle and how they fight.

The way they fought the stormtroopers, the AT-AT's, the scouttroopers was astonishing to me. For beings as small as they are and to fight as valiantly as they did- very commendable.

Whenever I see RotJ I'm always so enchanted at they way they fight off the Empire. They have alot of grit and determination. Nothing stands in their way and nothing brings them down. They just keep forging ahead.

Yub Yub!

 

The reason that you were astonished by their prowess in battle is that the battle of Endor was about as believable as the notion of a 60 ft. tall condor swooping in through your window right now and fying you to the moon to become queen of the salamanders.(that would also astonish you.)

Two swinging logs demolishing the head of a walking battle-tank??? puh-LEASE.rocks thrown by midgets incapacitating men wearing full suits of armor??? the whole scene is an insult to the intelligence.

Anyway,disliking the Ewoks has nothing to do with "growing up".
I was a kid when ROTJ came out.My Mom let me skip school to get in line for the first showing.And when I saw the Ewoks and heard that manipulative little pansy-"aren't we whismical little cutie-pies" theme they played when Wicket was waddling around...I became ILL.
Hate their baby-talk language.Hate the fact that they look exactly like teddy-bears(could the desire for the merchandising dollar be ANY more transparent???).As a SW-geek,I was put off by the fact that I knew that What GL really wanted was a Wookie battle,but he just couldn't afford it or find enough 7 ft. tall extras,so he saved money on fake fur by making them midgets.Hate their repulsively sacharine music.(go read the lyrics to their celebration song.They make "Barney" the purple dinosaur sound like Marilyn MANSON!!!)

And this is not because I was some "too cool for school"-type kid.At that exact same time I was in love with the smurfs,had a bunch of 'em.My first action fig was R2D2 and I would just sit and look at it,just because I thought it was the CUTEST little guy in the world.
The Ewoks were just not done well on so many levels.And R2,while cute,was never insulting.

 

^^^ I hope you'll be happier tomorrow when the DVD's come out.

Peace

 

Two swinging logs demolishing the head of a walking battle-tank???
Actually that would work. The logs are big enough and the AT-ST is built to withstand blaster fire, not solid objects hitting it.

rocks thrown by midgets incapacitating men wearing full suits of armor???
Here's an idea. Go put on a football helmet. Have a friend throw a rock at your head. A big rock. See how well you feel after the impact.

the whole scene is an insult to the intelligence.
You skipped school to see a movie but you can rate intelligence?

 

I've never understood this either. I love the Ewoks. I found one of the best parts of ROTJ was C-3PO giving the story of the Rebellion and convincing the Ewoks that they should help. Plus, a bunch of teddy bears taking on the technologically-advanced Imperial military so that a bunch of humans they just met could destroy the Death Star is very noble. "Many Ewoks died to bring us this victory."

They came about because it would have been too expensive to do a large amount of Wookiees, so Lucas cut them in half and named them Ewoks, which is, of course, Wookiees with the syllables reversed.

Ewoks rule, as do the Gungans. Jar-Jar is silly but the rest of the Gungans I found very interesting.

 

I love ewoks! They are so cool!