Is it truly wrong to hate the Ewoks?<\/p>\n
Everyone knows the Ewoks. Those cute, cuddly, walking teddy bears that populated the last half of Return of the Jedi<\/i>. In a series of films about the fate of the universe and the titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil, the Ewoks seemed curiously out-of-place. They lived in trees, they had tribal councils, they were aboriginal. In short, the Ewoks were the antithesis of the very technological world that George Lucas had painstakingly created.<\/p>\n
Some have argued that Lucas’ intention in creating the Ewoks was to create something marketable out of the Star Wars<\/i> films. Never mind that the series made Lucas a millionaire several thousand times over. The Ewoks were the pinnacle of a merchandising bonanza, best exemplified by the fact that the word “ewok” is never once<\/i> uttered during Return of the Jedi<\/i>, yet even people who haven’t seen a Star Wars<\/i> film knows what the Ewoks are.<\/p>\n
Suffice to say, I don’t much care for the Ewoks.<\/p>\n
Suppose for a moment that something very nasty came along, something very evil. Something that wanted to exterminate<\/i> the Ewoks.<\/p>\n
Thus was born “The Dalek Invasion of Endor.”<\/p>\n
The first version of “The Dalek Invasion of Endor” appeared on the Psi Phi Star Trek Books Bulletin Board<\/a> on March 22, 2001. The second version, a drabble of exactly one hundred words, was posted to alt.drwho.creative<\/a> on March 29, 2001, and was my first attempt at a drabble, the result of some judicious paring of words from the original idea.<\/p>\n Is it fair for the Daleks to exterminate the Ewoks? No particular reason why they shouldn’t. Daleks out in the forests, hunting down Ewoks, has a certain, nasty vision to it, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it truly wrong to hate the Ewoks? Everyone knows the Ewoks. Those cute, cuddly, walking teddy bears that populated the last half of Return of the Jedi. In a series of films about the fate of the universe and the titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil, the Ewoks seemed curiously out-of-place.Continue reading “Ewoks! Exterminate!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[94,4082,737,305,4114,4102],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-daleks","tag-doctor-who","tag-drabbles","tag-ewoks","tag-star-wars","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}