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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Cuteness
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 07:51:22 EDT
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Quoted from <2810@topaz.ARPA> ["Cold blooded cuteness"], by wix%bergil.DEC@decwrl.ARPA...
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| >                   	  But the cuteness of anything, even if it does	
| >  resemble a walking teddy-bear, is decidedly limited when it wakes
| >  you up, as it did Leia, with a sharp spear at a sensitive spot.
| 
| While using a spear to wake someone does cut the cloying sensation they
| first give, but the audience reaction during the times that I watched the 
| movie was at how cute they were with their cute spears. 
|	.	.	.
| I am not ashamed of the Ewoks I just think the costume design was purposefully
| designed to be cute and it distracted me during the film.
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Perhaps it was designed to be cute; but I can think of another reason for it.
Just what you were saying about feeding the bears in the national parks.
A cute menace can be more fearful than an {plain, ugly, what-have-you} one.
MUCH so.  (Although I would not credit George Lucas & co. with the intelligence
to use such a device.  Your first guess is probably right.)

For more information, read David Gerrold's THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES, an account
of the making of teh ST episode of the same name.

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