Sergio Aragones from MAD magazine did a classic panel “showing” it:
http://www.starwars.com/eu/lit/ref/f20071024/indexp2.html
Scroll to the middle and click for close up.
My god, my life is now somehow complete. Thank you.
If you were a hiring Dark Overlord wouldn’t you prefer the species that wiped out all other sentient species on their planet before they got outside their own solar system?
I can see the t-shirts now:
[del]Neanderthals 30,000 BC[/del]
[del]Whales & Dolphins 2009 AD[/del]
Jedi TBA
Eh. They’re not “us” human. They’re just humanoid enough to be called human in relation to the rest of their galaxy. Remember, “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”…
You mean like Fargo was based on a true story?
I’m not quite sure of your point. Star Wars is complete fiction. If Lucas had wanted to make them exact duplicates of humanity but living in the galaxy M105, that’s the “truth” of their fictional situation. I’m well aware that there aren’t really “humans” in some distant galaxy millennia ago.
I’m not sure I understand your point. We’re told it takes place in a galaxy far away and a long time ago so we know they’re not us.
They happen to look human for convenience’s sake, and they also happen to speak English for convenience’s sake.
All will be explained when the Rebel fleet arrives at present day Earth in the next sequel, Star Wars 1980.
The old Sierra computer game Space Quest 2 also did an amusing take on multi-species space bathrooms.
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There are ideas too vile for words, you know…
I’m thinking an improbable concatenation of events involving a Jedi, a whomprat in estrus, and some death-sticks past their sell-by date.
Let’s make it Star Wars 2008/SG-1.
That’d be fun.
“Well, Yoda’s just zis guy, you know?”
-Joe
And yet Lucas seems strangely drawn to such things.
I know that Babylon 5 had separate stalls for Pakmara.
Like this.
So do you think Yoda was live birth or an egg? And what does his own language sound like? And why is it he can levitate and whip foes 10 times his size and overcome whatever vocal impediments his own kind has in speaking “English” but can’t master syntax? (And did anybody actually see or hear him talking with Qui Gon Jinn or did they just take the stressed old lizardling’s word for it? This was possibly in the top 40 weakest moments of the third movie in the trilogy that doesn’t count.)
Other alien questions:
Has any “official” source ever shown what Jawas look like under their robes?
Are sandmen/Tusken raiders human?
Is interspecies dating/marriage permitted? (Jabba certainly seems to like his non-Hutt dancing girls, and the way his tail was patting on the floor next to the sleeping Leia was a bit grossly suggestive.) If so the stage is set for MOS EISLEY SIDE STORY (“A boy with scales cannot love! A boy who’s slimy has two hearts! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind!”)
One of MTV Movie Awards better moments was the senile Yoda at the Jedi council (made using actual clips from the movie to show his non sequitur responses in an interrogation).
I’m really sorry, but now I’m gonna have to kill you. Nothing personal.
Okay…this is from Wookiepedia, so I’m sure it’s not 100% reliable, but:
I don’t believe we’ve ever seen (in ANY canon source) an unrobed/unhooded Jawa. However, according to the Jawa article, the Jawas and Sand People are thought to both be descendants of the Kumumgah, whom it is implied are the original Humans (or at least related to them) of the Star Wars galaxy in the game Knights of the Old Republic.
Obviously, they’ve evolved away from anything reasonably human-looking, but that’s your base.