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Originally Posted by Trantor
I agree with this general overview of the battle for the shield generator, it's just that the battle as depicted, was totally rediculous. First of all, the Emperor's Elite Stormtroopers(he called them, a Legion of his "finest troops") were totally incompetent. Weren't these the same guys who fought so well in the Clone Wars? They couldn't aim very well and their protective armor seemed to be vulnurable to arrows and rocks. In the first Ewok attack, arrows and rocks brought down many Stormtroopers. Then they broke ranks and chased the Ewoks into the forest instead of massing their troops around the shield generator. They also had at least one big AT-AT walker(it was shown in the scene when Luke turned himself in to Vader) and several At-St's at their disposal. The AT-AT was never shown as taking part in the battle and it's incredible that the "Elite" troopers would send their AT-ST's into a heavily wooded area, instead of forming a perimeter around the generator.
The easy way that Chewbacca managed to capture that AT-ST was also pretty amazing - the "Elite" troopers saw an Ewok making fun of them thru the window, then decided to open the hatch and go out and get him!
I would rather have seen a nice battle for the shield generator; involving a decent sized Rebel force, who at least had similar advanced weapons, to take the shield generator from the Imperials. The fleets fighting above Endor were also mismatched, as the Imperials had more powerful ships and outnumbered the Rebel fleet ten to one. The Rebel fleet was caught between the active Deathstar(which did destroy at least two Rebel capital ships) and the fleet of stardestroyers, but it didn't matter as victory for the Rebels was assured.
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I've read, but I can't confirm, that the Mighty Victory of the Ewoks was originally conceived by Lucas to be the Mighty Victory of the Wookies. Lucas had a grand idea of exploring the theme of Stone-Age Primitives Defeats Modern Technology (a romantic notion albeit rarely occurring in our world). However, when plotting out Ep. 4, Lucas had no idea that the franchise would be as successful as it was, so he couldn't count on the bank roll to make Ep 6.
So with the prospect of not being able to introduce Wookies at all, Lucas decided to move Chewie as a main character up into Ep 4, give him some technical skills (since it wouldn't make sense for Han Solo to adopt a primitive animal to be a co-pilot of a temperamental ship) and hope for the best. Had Lucas known that SW would be a success (again, this may be just scuttlebutt) then the copilot would have been some other character altogether, and the last Death Star would have been assembled over the forest moon of Kashyyyk, only to be defeated by the locals. It would have resembled what we saw during Ep. 3. At least then you have the superior size and strength of the Wookies to enhance their primitive technology.
Instead, we got Attack of the Teddy Bears to appeal to the Sesame Street demographic.
Again, it's just what I heard.