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From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Cuteness, Ewoks, and other "abominations"...
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 11:00:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 11:00:24 1985
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Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA
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Ewoks?, be serious.  It is obvious to anyone with half a brain that
this was a stupid descent into cutesieism to get the christmas toy
market.  They were big overbloated teddy bears that made cute noises
walked funny and had adorable skittish mannerisms otherwise skywalker
an co. wouldn't have put up with them tying them up et al.  Replace
the cute little fuzzy bears with imperial stormtrooper armed with spears
and I guarantee rather than being tied up we would have had a bunch
of quite deceased storm troopers. Obviously
constructed to evoke ("Oh aren't they CUTE") it was a stupid descent
into adolescent plotting, the movie would have been vastly improved
if it could have been taken seriously i.e. a real set of barbarian
tribes that commanded respect and trepidation rather than ("oh they
are so cute, we couldn't hurt a teddy bear") that we could have believed
would have given the imperials some trouble given the right direction.
Yes, I like fuzzies but only when treated as fuzzies not as a serious
character which is to give storm troopers any competition.

David Albrecht
General Electric