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(This one doesn't have much to do with Star Trek. I have thrown in a link to a Star Trek-themed YouTube video to make up for this.)
A recent clip from Lost tells me that the folks in the Abrams crew don't appreciate the original Star Wars trilogy's structure as much as they should.
It could all be chalked up to Hurley's . . . whatever (here's where I admit that I have only seen three or four episodes of Lost; from what I understand, though, he is supposed to be somewhat childlike/naive), but I take issue with his assertion that Luke and Vader could have talked everything out in/on Bespin. Vader needed to witness the Emperor killing Luke before he could turn back to the Light Side, and Luke needed 1.) to have the emotional security of knowing Leia and Han were back with the Rebellion and fighting, and 2.) to confront the Dark Side fully by having the threat of Leia being turned waved in front of his face.
I understand what Lucas was going for with the Ewoks. He wanted to show a comparably small-in-stature, technologically ill-advanced race overcoming by virtue of tenacity and tactical-advantage-by-way-of-familiarity-with-the-landscape. He wanted to show the big bad US paying the price for being out of its element during Vietnam. The Ewoks are only moderately successful as an analogy.
It wasn't until the Internet age that people who had been kids when Return of the Jedi came out were informed that they were supposed to hate the Ewoks for being cutesy. Sure, the stuff with Wicket W. Warrick *is* cutesy, but those little fuckers are pretty fierce. (And apparently not above cooking and eating humans.) Also, the scene where the one dies and the other tries to wake it up is one of the most touching in Return of the Jedi.
A recent clip from Lost tells me that the folks in the Abrams crew don't appreciate the original Star Wars trilogy's structure as much as they should.
It could all be chalked up to Hurley's . . . whatever (here's where I admit that I have only seen three or four episodes of Lost; from what I understand, though, he is supposed to be somewhat childlike/naive), but I take issue with his assertion that Luke and Vader could have talked everything out in/on Bespin. Vader needed to witness the Emperor killing Luke before he could turn back to the Light Side, and Luke needed 1.) to have the emotional security of knowing Leia and Han were back with the Rebellion and fighting, and 2.) to confront the Dark Side fully by having the threat of Leia being turned waved in front of his face.
I understand what Lucas was going for with the Ewoks. He wanted to show a comparably small-in-stature, technologically ill-advanced race overcoming by virtue of tenacity and tactical-advantage-by-way-of-familiarity-with-the-landscape. He wanted to show the big bad US paying the price for being out of its element during Vietnam. The Ewoks are only moderately successful as an analogy.
It wasn't until the Internet age that people who had been kids when Return of the Jedi came out were informed that they were supposed to hate the Ewoks for being cutesy. Sure, the stuff with Wicket W. Warrick *is* cutesy, but those little fuckers are pretty fierce. (And apparently not above cooking and eating humans.) Also, the scene where the one dies and the other tries to wake it up is one of the most touching in Return of the Jedi.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAaX8Aq6smQ
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