The ewoks were a very bad idea and a poor replacement for Wookies. Most fans know that Lucas originally intended that final battle to take place on the Wookie homeworld and that he intended the Wookies to have a primitive culture... but then, after writing in Chewbacca, he realised he'd cornered himself.

I personally don't see why he couldn't have had it on the Wookie homeworld anyway. Just because Chewbacca knows how to fly a starship and fire a laser rifle, that doesn't necessarily mean his entire race does. He could have been taken away from his natural culture at an early age and placed in a technological society where he could have learnt such things.

Okay, I've obviously spent waaaaaay too much time thinking this through LOL At the end of the day, almost anything would have been better than a bunch of teddy bears with sticks and stones.

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