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  • Caravan of Courage (1984)

    The first of two Ewok TV movies made in the 1980s.

    Wicket from RotJ, and the other Ewoks, come across two human children and help them to find their parents. The film further explores the forest moon of Endor, which is not entirely forest. Though, it's nice to see a planet/moon not entirely defined by a single geographic characteristic. Between the boar-wolf (which I thought was ambitious for a 1984 TV movie) and the Gorax (and the giant spider), you get the feeling that some pretty large, predatory creatures lives on this moon. Predators that the Ewoks have to tangle with on a regular basis. Giving a motivation for why Ewoks are able to take down storm troopers. Just look at what these guys have to deal with, on a regular basis. Of course, Endor also have horses, owls and other Earth-native animals. Though, I suppose it beats them putting a horn on a dog, to make it look "alien". Besides, Dagobah had lizards and snakes.

    As the Ewoks (except for Wicket, who picks up some words) don't speak English/Basic, it's up to the narrator to explain a lot of thing onscreen and Ewok behavior. Gets really tiresome after a while.

    I liked the bit where Cindel asks Wicket something like "don't you have starcruisers?". It felt believable. Cindel is a small child, born into a society where everyone has a starcruiser (or access to one). So she finds it odd that someone doesn't have one.

    A few Ewoks appears to be force users...

    Didn't find the film extremely interesting. Though, it is noteworthy as being the first thing made after the OT, and the first Star Wars film not dealing with Luke, Han and Leia. Demonstrating that you can tell stories centered around other people in this galaxy/franchise. You're not limited to (or dependent on) the trio from the original trilogy, for stories within this franchise.

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    RIP John Korty, the director of this film.

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      Apparently, "One Normal Day", a short story about Wicket in the recently published canon book From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi​, contains a reference to the events of the two Ewok movies. They haven't been officially "re-canoned", but there's enough gray area for us to treat them as such.

      After all, I doubt that they'll be making anything where characters go to the forrest moon, meet Wicket, and he makes it clear that his adventures with Cindel never happened. The only real continuity issue between the two Ewok movies and RotJ is that Wicket learns the language of Cindel's family, which could easily be explained away by them not speaking Basic, but a different language (that, like Basic, gets translated into English for our benefit). Or he simply lost/forgot the language in the time between Battle for Endor and RotJ. Months of him having no use or exposure to the language. The truth is, if you don't use something, you will eventually lose it. Also, him knowing some Basic would hardly be the biggest RotJ retcon in the years since the release of that film. If anything, it would give a motivation for why this one Ewok tags along with the heroes: he's the one who understands their language best.

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