Lily Gladstone says her favorite Star Wars characters are the Ewoks, “They’re such a beacon of Indigenous resistance. And they rocked it. They brought the Empire down, I’m sorry”

by Lonely-Freedom4986

32 comments

  1. I heard ISIS was inspired by the tuskan raiders.

    But we could learn from the ewoks. Like consuming your enemies and dancing around fires.

  4. But which RotJ celebration song does she prefer? The original, or the special edition?

  11. I honestly never thought of the Ewoks as stand ins for anything. Absolutely looking at them anew.

  12. Lily Gladstone mastering that digital engagement game over here. Bravo.

  14. Did she read the EU material which details how the destruction of the second Death Star devastated their homeworld and rendered it uninhabitable? Sheesh, and all in service of some religious extremists calling themselves “Jedi.” Sad!

  16. “Empire” had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All “Jedi” had was a bunch of Muppets.

  17. As stupid as RotJ’s inclusion of Ewoks was, and even though it’s extremely stupid and makes no sense it’s genuinely kind of awesome to see an indigenous population of teddy bears take down an entire legion of Palpy’s best troops.

    (And seeing the imperials kill some of the Ewoks is genuinely kind of hard to watch, especially that heartbreaking moment where one Ewok tries to rouse his companion only to realize that said companion is already dead.)

  18. /puke. As a GenXer that saw this in theaters on release. The Ewoks were soooo cringe.

  22. Does she have a personality outside of being indigenous?

  23. I love the Ewoks but that should have been the Wookies until George Lucas decided he wanted to make Return of the Jedi more kid friendly

  24. Let’s not forget the Ewoks were going to eat Luke and Leia and had already eaten other humans before.

  25. They only won through help from other “colonizers” though

  27. Ewoks were going to cook and eat Luke and Han. Always remember.

  28. She should get a special Oscar just for saying this.

  29. And they fashioned a drum.kit.out of their oppressors heads.

    And they write a *banger* celebration song with that percussion.

  30. No, they didn’t bring down the Empire.

    i’M sOrRy did she even watch the movie?

  31. Back in my day, this was something you would say to intentionally piss off Star Wars fans.

    To each their own I suppose.

    Also, they didn’t take down the Empire, they took down a shield generator or some such. Luke blew up the Death Star.

  32. Without the interference of other humans “directly forcing them to interfere with the empire”, the Ewoks would have gone on being nothing. So… what? Let’s forget about the resistance’s efforts and what it helped enact?

    Sure, let’s forget the actual THRUST of what pushed that forward to happening. Without the resistance, and specifically the Millennium Falcon and its crew, you don’t have the Ewoks joining in the fight. If anything, the Ewoks are a civilization that clung to survival. Not really a “beacon of indigenous resistance”. At least, how they were portrayed.

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