Star Wars Misconceptions

[thegreatgalling]

After my first vewing of ROTJ many years ago, I read the ROTJ script and in it, the Falcon and Lando actually perish. During the next viewing of ROTJ two or three years later, I could have SWORN the Falcon didn't make it.

 

[Vermithrax 4]

I also thought the Stormtroopers were robots at first. Honestly, even though The Clone Wars were mentioned by Obi-Wan, it never occurred to me that they were clones at all until Episode 2 came out.

For many years we pronounced the name of Vader's command ship as "Ex-e-QUOO-ter", until we realized there is no such word and it's really "Exec-ya-ter".

Always firmly believed that the trench that ran around the Death Star's equator was the trench that the fighters flew down at the end of SW. Was years later when I noticed that the graphic during the briefing indicates that it's a smaller trench that actually runs vertically up the surface instead of horizontally.

It was comparatively recently that I realized that the big, triangular object in the walkway of the Lars garage was Luke's T-16 Skyhopper!

When Time magazine released the first picture of Yoda (in that now familiar still of Luke sitting on the ground beside him), my brother and I didn't realize that Yoda was just short, we thought his legs were simply submerged in the swamp and that Luke was just sitting on the ground at the edge of it.

When I saw "Jedi" for the very first time I thought the Emperor's initial reaction was one of fear after Luke proclaimed himself a Jedi. Up until the point where he said, "So be it...Jedi." that is. At that point I just thought, "Oh, ****, here it comes!" :lol

 

[Alan Cross]

My biggest Star Wars Misconception was thinking that Episode One: The Phantom Menace would be worth my time.

 

[apokai]

I do remember long talks about if Vader was a robot or not.

I also thought that Tarkin was the boss of Vader.

 

[apokai]

my biggest star wars misconception was thinking that episode one: The phantom menace would be worth my time.

lol! +1 !!!!!!

 

[Pappy]

Almost everything i had in mind is mentioned,but here's one,
I thought Death Star had a landing dock for the Star Destroyers in Star Wars (on a scene where Vader's SD approached DS in full speed:lol)

Is it?

 

[Art Andrews]

When I first saw Yoda, I thought he was some kind of evil troll and was terrified of him.

 

[dbalschi]

Definitely thought Vader was a robot and for some reason I thought Ewoks were baby Wookies

 

[GotWookiee]

I used to think that Chewie was a Dog Man, and carried his poop around in his pouch. This made sense to me, since my dad cleaned up the dog turds in the back yard with a scoop, Chewie The Dog Man would clean up after himself. The fact that the pouch looked like poop on the Kenner action figure probably didn't help.

I use to call lightsabres life savers. I didn't learn how to say it correctly until I played Empire Strikes Back on the original NES.

Also used to call him Dark Vader. I didn't learn that it was Darth until I got one of those "Draw 50 Monsters" books. It contained instructions for Vader (and another for Yoda) and spelt his name correctly.

After seeing Luke in the Bacta tank, I wondered why Luke wore diapers.

I was dead certain for many years that there was a live action battle scene featuring AT-AT's blasting **** in the woods. For years I was convinced it was in one of the Ewok movies. Just my imagination apparently.

I used to think that General Dodonna was an idiot because he couldn't say Leia's name correctly.

Tauntaun's ate spagetti.

I used to think that the Snow Troopers were "Darth Vader's Royal Guards" since they sort of looked like the red guards from Jedi.

My best friend from grade school insisted that Vader and the Emperor's Royal Guards had their heads cut off and attached to robot bodies.

FX-7 (medical assistant from the Bacta scene) and the Probot were related.

 

[JD]

My biggest misconception is so-called fanboys stopped whining about the prequels.

 

[SSgt Burton]

For many years we pronounced the name of Vader's command ship as "Ex-e-QUOO-ter", until we realized there is no such word and it's really "Exec-ya-ter".

I thought it was pronounce like that ("Ex-e-QUOO-ter"), up until reading this post. :confused :lol


Kevin

 

[familyman]

I swear I have seen ROTJ with the missing sandstorm scene, but have come to realise that it is just probably me remembering reading it as a child and imagining it so vividly in my mind that I believed I saw it. I also swear I have seen the scene were luke jumps up in the rancor pit and grabs the bars of the floor he fell from, and the guards stomp on his hands and he falls back down, I know there is a picture of that in the photo story book but I swear I have seen this in the movie.

 

[darthgordon]

I used to think that Chewie was a Dog Man, and carried his poop around in his pouch. This made sense to me, since my dad cleaned up the dog turds in the back yard with a scoop, Chewie The Dog Man would clean up after himself. The fact that the pouch looked like poop on the Kenner action figure probably didn't help.

:lol I almost fell out of my chair with this one.

 

[BGHUNTER]

Im sure it exe-q-ter like an exequter (with the black hood in the dark ages whome chops of heads)
not egsec-u-ter, like a guy who works in an office

 

[LrdSatyr8]

I remember seeing Star Wars in the theater when I was a boy... and during the first battle scene in the hallway, I often wondered why the stormtroopers never aimed at the droids as they were walking thru the line of fire and how they were able to get away with not being hit by a stray laser bolt with as many that were being shot thru that hallway. That didn't make sense to me. I also remember wondering why the torture droid had a big needle on it when it entered the princess's cell and they had to focus on it. I mean this is a galaxy far far away and you had this huge syrenge on this floating droid? You'd think they would have developed something different. I couldn't figure out why they couldn't detect that there were no life forms aboard the Falcon when they towed it into the hanger bay before they went on board. I noticed that they sped up the camera every time they opened or closed the big doors... it looked kinda hokey to me... you'd think they would have fixed that in the special additions too. I didn't understand why 3PO needed a complink when he was a robot... wouldn't something like that be built into a droid and wouldn't he not need to have to vocalize any transmissions thru his voicebox? I also couldn't figure out why the big dish on the Death Star was in the middle of the plans that they showed during the debriefing before the big attack run when every time you saw the DS itself the dish was above the trenchline. That didn't make any sense to me. I mean if you're going to design a plan to destroy such a massive structure, I would think you would need plans that were alot more accurate right? And what gets me is that they never did fix that issue in the special editions... the dish is still right on the trench line. I mean, com'n, they had holograms, but instead they use a big TV screen (which of course looked like a rear projection set to me). I was 10 years old when I saw ANH and remember the LP that came out of all the movies. I wore them out playing them before I went to sleep at night. Wish I could find those original recordings off the LP's... I've looked but can't find them anywhere. I camped out in front of the theater for 3 weeks waiting to see ESB with 3 of my friends in 1980. Of course we had our toy lightsabers with us. I think we even got interviewed for the local news that week. I was 2nd in line... my best friend was first, but I didn't mind. We couldnt' wait to get in to see it and we all sat right up front so we didn't miss anything! In Empire, I couldn't figure out why they had to fly directly into the blockcade of 3 stardestroyers... why couldn't they have just gone to the other side of the planet before they took off? I thought the Ion Cannon looked like a big boobie. I couldn't figure out why they couldn't detect the probe droid when it entered the atmosphere... I mean, it was a metal craft wasn't it? And when Luke used the grenade on the AT-AT, why they didn't just use that same technque to get the rest of them? I mean, if you had just a group of maybe 5 guys, waiting on the sidelines outta sight and wait for them to pass by, they could all have easily ran up to them from the side, used a towcable, reel themselves up, open the hatch underneath and toss in a grenade... viola... end of the walker seige! I mean comon, who's planning this battle defensive? I thought Vader was lying about being Luke's dad and never thought Leia was his sister. Always wanted them to hook up. I also wondered how they ended up in the belly of the beast when the falcon flew into the crater... did the beast sleep with it's mouth open and if so, how did it breathe without oxygen? And why did it choose to live on an asteroid in a barren environment and still get so big? What did it eat? I mean, how many meals come by in the middle of an asteroid field? Don't you live where the food is?? And in ROTJ why didn't they use the AT-ATs in the forest battle instead of all the chicken walkers? And if the 2nd Death Star was fully armed and Operational, why did it just fire on the ships... why didn't it just explode Endor and end everything! Just a few observations that I grew up asking myself. I was always the logical thinker!

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Another thing I didn't understand (and still don't to be honest) is why the Super Star Destroyer in ROTJ lost complete control just because the bridge blew up.

Okay, so the control centre is gone. You're telling me that there's no redundancy in case something happened to the bridge? Also, one would suspect that if the bridge was destroyed most navigation systems would either stop working or continue doing what they were last told. In this case the ship was stationary so why did it all of a sudden start moving?

 

[CessnaDriver]

Another thing I didn't understand (and still don't to be honest) is why the Super Star Destroyer in ROTJ lost complete control just because the bridge blew up.

Okay, so the control centre is gone. You're telling me that there's no redundancy in case something happened to the bridge? Also, one would suspect that if the bridge was destroyed most navigation systems would either stop working or continue doing what they were last told. In this case the ship was stationary so why did it all of a sudden start moving?

Maybe the Death Star's mass was so was much it had a gravitational field strong enough to pull a drifting SSD into it.
SSD have a bit of mass of it's own too.

What sucked was the weak ass explosion.
Looked like a backyard effect.
I thought for sure the special editions would punch it up.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Maybe the Death Star's mass was so was much it had a gravitational field strong enough to pull a drifting SSD into it.
SSD have a bit of mass of it's own too.

Ya, I thought about that but that explanation just never sat right with me. That star destroyer makes a mighty swift nose dive...

I thought for sure the special editions would punch it up.

*Pulls hair out and runs screaming* Don't tempt them!

Mind you, as an addition to the whole "not making sense" thing. Shoot the core and the Death Star blows up, great. Skewer it with a massive space ship and nothing? Good thing it didn't hit the bridge I suppose! :lol

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Ya, I thought about that but that explanation just never sat right with me. That star destroyer makes a mighty swift nose dive...



*Pulls hair out and runs screaming* Don't tempt them!

Mind you, as an addition to the whole "not making sense" thing. Shoot the core and the Death Star blows up, great. Skewer it with a massive space ship and nothing? Good thing it didn't hit the bridge I suppose! :lol

That's a good point... you would think that after the first DS was exploded because of a single shot to the core, they would have at least put up some kind of contingency against something like that happening again. Hell... if it were me I would have at least surrounded the core with laser turrets, then put a mine field all the way to the core just to be safe! And as for the SSD, why a nose dive? If the gravity pulled it in, wouldn't it have hit engines first or even sideways? And why is Han the only Coreillian you ever see... is he like the last of his people? Hell you get to see Chewie's planet but what about Han's?

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Oh... one more thing... in the original ANH movie, when Ben was turning off the tractor beam, all the controls on the console were in English... then in the special edition, they edited them into the SW Langauge... why??