Did you know they spent about a million dollars on the frickin thing and did'nt even shoot it on film as far as i have read. They shot it on u-matic studio video tape circa 1978. Thats some quality there,lol.
This special is easily the worst thing George Lucas ever created. Worse than Howard the Duck, Worse than Jar Jar even. Worse than Pee Wee herman as a droid on star tours. That and Captain EO are a bit creepy now knowing they were meant for children.
Unless you have a servere case of nostalgia i also would say stay as far away as possible from the ewok movies and the droids and ewok cartoons. Can you believe this is all we got after jedi back in the day. The marvel comic was a couple steps above but was at some point later cancelled.
Can you imagine being a kid and wanting sequels to Return of the Jedi and all you get is this garbage. At least until Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire came out.
Then you wait 16 years and get served up a disney channel movie of the week like the phantom menace. What an utter disappointment. Turning off my brain to the next 2 and enjoying their mind numbing stupidity and action was the only was i could deal with it. I had to tell myself there are not star wars only something using the name themes and characters poorly. So i saw menace in theaters once and clones and sith twice only for the epic lightsaber duels that were in hindsight laughable.
If you could mute the horrible wooden and uninteresting dialogue and characters basically you have six hours of wall to wall cgi and frantic action. The plot threads so thin i'm surprised the films work at all. They work a whole lot better when filled in by EU comics and novels. So they throw an EU bandaid over plot and continuity vacuum big enough to fly a death star through.
Also the politics now in the EU are very heavy handed. They dealt with Terrorism and the war on terror with the vong. They dealt with Bush in the prequels. And now the last book was about more politics and religion crap. Something Outcast or something i can't exactly remember.
The originals had politics too but they were not in your face. It was more your standard revoltionary war style story.
Having Hayden deliver the bushism in Epsiode III made me burst out laughing in the theater. It was so bad i literally could have been rolling on the floor laughing at Lucas.