Originally posted by: ferris209
The thing that always bothered me about the original Ewok song is that it roughly translates to the Ewoks proclaiming their freedom and newfound rights from oppression. Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't the Ewoks unaware that they were oppressed in the first place. They just lived in trees and they had nothing the Empire wanted, Leia and C3-PO had to tell them what was going on before they would even help. After all this, why are the Ewoks so happy about destroying something that didn't even effect their way of life at all, other then the troopers taking over some of their land. They even had a song all wrote up within hours of ending the battle. I guess they were going to be blown up after the DSII was completed. but they didn't know that at any time.
The thing that always bothered me about the original Ewok song is that it roughly translates to the Ewoks proclaiming their freedom and newfound rights from oppression. Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't the Ewoks unaware that they were oppressed in the first place. They just lived in trees and they had nothing the Empire wanted, Leia and C3-PO had to tell them what was going on before they would even help. After all this, why are the Ewoks so happy about destroying something that didn't even effect their way of life at all, other then the troopers taking over some of their land. They even had a song all wrote up within hours of ending the battle. I guess they were going to be blown up after the DSII was completed. but they didn't know that at any time.
Yeah, the Ewoks in the final film really have not motive to fight or celebrate. You get the impression that once the Death Star was complete the Imperials all would have left and life would have continued on, totally unaffected. In the first drafts Endor was one of the moons of Coruscant, and was being deforested and harvested for natural resources--which is why Palpatine calls it a "sanctuary moon" in the final film, even though its not. It was supposed to be a sanctuary for the overpopulated Coruscant, which indeed would give the Ewoks a reason to save themselves from the invaders.