Fuck, am I the only one? Me: Born in '72.
I didn’t even understand the symbolism at the time.
Fuckin primitive Teddy Bears defeating the most technologically advanced warriors ever. What’s not to like?
Can’t wait for the fuckin hater pile-on, you joyless fucks.
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I liked them too.
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Uh, okay, I’ll play: I hated the ewoks. I was 10 when the first star wars movie came out and loved it, but I couldn’t stand the battle of the planet of teddy bears. Maybe it was that I had grown up in the time between movies, but it just seemed like pandering to me at the time and still does now.
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Yea, I liked them. Never really understood the hate. I mean, there were cutsy elements to the previous two movies as well (Yoda, C-3PO), and everyone likes Yoda and , well everyone at least manages to ignore C-3PO.
Much hate I sense in you, young Padawan
George Lucas? “Pander”? Hmpf, what a suggestion, that he would compromise his artistic vision for a few paltry hundred million dollars? Not to mention the toys, games, cartoons, four “revised” versions, three prequels, two wench friends, and a parsnip in a psaltry?
I like the Ewoks more than you. 
I really liked that “Eeechowawa” noise that one of them made.
I don’t understand who its pandering to? People that really like Muppets?
I like the ewoks. Maybe it was that cartoon series that made me like them…
I especially loved the “Yub-Yub” song at the end of the movie.
I’ll never forgive Lucas for removing it.
Word.
Ewoks are awesome, fun, and happy.
[sub]They also make excellent X-Wing pilots.[/sub]
The Ewoks were supposed to be Wookies.
I for one, was hoping for a planetary extinction level event from the destruction of a moon-sized body orbiting the planet, not to mention the radioactive fallout from a generator strong enough to power a shield to protect said moon-size body.
I thought it trivialized the final chapter in the series.
I never saw the movies until I was an adult so I never thought they were the end-all that other people (read: my ex-boyfriend) thought they were. However I liked them, and I liked the Ewoks. Way more annoying to me was Luke in the first movie…whiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
You had me at “Hmpf”
I didn’t mind the Ewoks, but I think Wookies would have been cooler.
When did Lucas cut out the “yub-yub” song???
Maybe after the explosion they mutated into Wookies?
I would say “Special Edition,” but that would require me to admit to having seen it.
Re, the Wookiees: As many people know, Lucas’ original plan was to have the Wookiees be the primitive race of forest-dwellers that aid in the downfall of the Empire, but he felt by the time RotJ rolled around that he had made Chewbacca too tech-savvy to have come from a backward, sticks-and-stones culture (which I call bullsh!t: could everyone on Tatooine fly like Luke?).
Anyway, that said, how said is it, then, that the Wookiees went from Lucas’ fantasy Empire-killing primitives to having (apparently) their furry asses handed to them by the nascent little Clone Army?
No one’s ever called me a “joyless fuck” before - thanks, Malvert! - but yes, I hated the Ewoks. Sickeningly sweet and annoying. Even given stormtroopers’ notoriously poor aim, no way could the Ewoks have beaten them. Plus they worshipped C-3PO as a god. WTF?