Even if we grant with the Endor holocaust EVENTUALLY happened, it clearly was not instantaneous. There was enough time for a big old victory party and four Anakin to show that he was receiving a completely undeserved reward in the afterlife. Plenty of time for a storm trooper barbecue.
Primitive does not mean stupid. The YouTube video I linked to upthread gives a good rationale. Also a recipe for fried Boba Fett.
[a Conspiracy Theorist from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away]I’m telling you, man, the so-called “Battle of Endor” was an inside job![/aCTfaltaiagffa]
I’d like to think that the Ewoks were major players in the black market organ business.
They gotta export something from that moon.
Point - if those useless excuses for merchandising were in fact carnivores with a ruthlessness that would make a Kzin blush, and actually had been eating imperial troops whenever they could catch or kill them, in the years the DSII was being built, the empire would have exterminated them to the last cute fuzzy ear.
What else would there be to do on that planet/moon but plink Ewoks?
You overlook the fact that Imperial Stormtroopers are completely incapable of hitting something the size of a Wookie, let alone an Ewok. The Ewoks would be in no danger.
When you first saw ROTJ, did you assume the Ewoks ate the Storm Troopers they defeated?
No. I was too distracted and annoyed by having teddy bears in a science fiction movie.
Oh, I knew they would.
It helps that I had an Ewok language class (“non-trad” middle school), so I heard one of them say “And you can boil the heads right in the mfghèh helmets!”
Note: mfghèh is a ‘task positive’ word that can mean good, helpful or convenient, so in this case “handy”.
The primary ewok picture I find shows very broad incisors – like a human. In other words, based on their dentition, ewoks are almost certainly omnivores, because carnivores do not usually have those kind of teeth.
For some reason, we see them wearing animal skins, which suggests that they know how to tan and that they kill leathery food. It does seem a bit incongruous, though, to see a pelted critter wearing those skins. The only thing we ever see Chewy wear is a bandolier.
I get the impression that the Empire arrived at Endor and constructed their shield setup there. The ewoks were apparently already living there, and the Empire simply ignored them. Most creatures that prey tend to be reclusive. The ewoks would probably not be attacking the construction crews because they did not initially resemble a food source and they were somewhat dangerous and well protected.
The stormtroopers gadded about on those funny flying bikes and were just too fast and difficult to deal with. The ewoks simply lived around the stormtroopers, who ignored them as well, such as when bears and cougars inhabit the same forest but mostly leave each other alone.
When the rebels arrived, the ewoks perceived them as more vulnerable than the stormtroopers, and their capture was, as I recall, more opportunistic than predatory. The stormtroopers were difficult prey that was generally too much effort for the yield, but the rebels kind of just fell into the ewoks’ laps.
well, there is that…
And the comments make the point about cannibalism. It’s not that the Ewoks were cannibals. It’s that you see the heroes at the end happily eating the stew the Ewoks prepared. And one of the article’s questions is "where did they get enough meat to deal with that, and where did all the dead storm troopers go so quickly?
And, unlike the incest, it’s harder to think the heroes were unaware, as they’d see them gathering the bodies…
No, I didn’t assume that.
Now that I think about it, they tried to eat our heroes, and then are beating on their helmets like drums, so logically they probably would have.
I just can’t imagine Luke & Co. hanging around and celebrating while they did that. I just can’t.
No, I didn’t assume that.
Now that I think about it, they tried to eat our heroes, and then are beating on their helmets like drums, so logically they probably would have.
I just can’t imagine Luke & Co. hanging around and celebrating while they did that. I just can’t.
I remind you that hon solo is a known nerf herder.Nerf herders will do any damn thing. luke & Leia we’re both very young when First exposed to him and had undoubtedly been corrupted by his influence. That dude belonged in carbonite.
Look who’s fallen into the propaganda trap of big Galactic Nobility! Just because some member of a now-defunct royal house claims that someone is a nerf herder, doesn’t make it so. We have no evidence that Solo ever herded, smuggled, or even came into contact with a nerf in his entire career.
If I’m picking a ring-leader who could steer two otherwise normal humans into the foul depths of cannibalism, I’d be looking at the last scion of the notoriously decadent House Organa; which House we have never seen any sort of evidence that they were not, in fact, dining on the corpses of their personal guardsmen even as their planet was being exploded.
How dare you, sir. How DARE you!?!?!
Leia Organa was a saint, I tell you. A SAINT! she turned the tide of battle! If she had not shown up at Autobot City when she did, Megatron & the Deceppticons would have …
Wait. Wrong fantasy franchise. Never mind.
Also, Leia was wearing a full-sized human dress they gave her, which they almost certainly did not sew in a few hours but far more credibly belonged to one of the Ewoks’ previous victims.
*Nom Nom Yub Yub
Well, yeah. Was it not Leia Organa’s own (deceased biological) mother who said, “So this is how democracy dies: to thunderous applause” ?