It's true. Only the first three movies released (1977, 1980, 1983) were worth a damn if we're being honest with ourselves, and the Ewoks in that 1983 last one were a shark-jumping moment. After that, the prequels were laughable hot garbage and then The Mouse(tm) ruined everything even further.
I could've TOTALLY believed ("bought into") the reality of the Ewoks and they would've been an acceptable addition to the narrative universe IF the Empire would've come in and crushed them into extinction quickly and with little trouble, as would happen in the real world.
But once midget caveman-tech-level teddy bears defeated a high-tech, spacefaring, mechanized armed force with directed energy weapons, I mentally checked out of the franchise, forever.
(Then, not knowing they were going to suck hugely, I made the mistake of seeing the first of the "prequels", during which there is a "pod race" with a pair of ESPN-style wisecracking TV announcers, one of whom actually ACTUALLY SAID after a nasty impact, "he'll feel THAT in the morning!" and I nearly got up and left the theater that instant. Only my cheapness kept me in my seat, as I had paid for a ticket).
Ewoks were the start of the end of the franchise
It's true. Only the first three movies released (1977, 1980, 1983) were worth a damn if we're being honest with ourselves, and the Ewoks in that 1983 last one were a shark-jumping moment. After that, the prequels were laughable hot garbage and then The Mouse(tm) ruined everything even further.
I could've TOTALLY believed ("bought into") the reality of the Ewoks and they would've been an acceptable addition to the narrative universe IF the Empire would've come in and crushed them into extinction quickly and with little trouble, as would happen in the real world.
But once midget caveman-tech-level teddy bears defeated a high-tech, spacefaring, mechanized armed force with directed energy weapons, I mentally checked out of the franchise, forever.
(Then, not knowing they were going to suck hugely, I made the mistake of seeing the first of the "prequels", during which there is a "pod race" with a pair of ESPN-style wisecracking TV announcers, one of whom actually ACTUALLY SAID after a nasty impact, "he'll feel THAT in the morning!" and I nearly got up and left the theater that instant. Only my cheapness kept me in my seat, as I had paid for a ticket).