Childhood Misconceptions (aka The Trap Thread, but misconceptions still welcome) — Page 15

Tack said:

terrifying Yoda puppet

I believe you are referring to our favorite character in the entire six movie saga, Creepy Puppet Yoda.

CPY:

I was 7 in 1977 when i first saw Star Wars,  just the one time in the cinema, and I distinctively remember having arguments in the schoolyard about a false memory of an image of Darth Vader's head super-imposed over a star-field at the end of the film saying " I Will Return ! ".

 It was a full 3 years before i saw the film again in a re-release,  long before home-video and Television screenings. but i think my memory was a composite of the multitude of  star wars merchandise commercials that flooded our TV screens flogging everything from Action figures, to ice creams,  shoes etc.  it was full on Star wars mania. I also had a T-Shirt with Vader's head emblazoned over a starfield with the words Darth Vader Lives

thanks Silverwook, that must have been where it came from, I must repressed that Donnie & Marie moment from my childhood subconscious. Probably with good reason

The first time I watched ESB I thought Luke actually killed Darth Vader in the cave scene and that was really his face in the helmet (it didn't look like Luke to me), so I was confused when he reappeared later in the movie.

Another one (really crazy, I know) was that I was under the impression that the prequels were better than the boring original trilogy with too much talking and really slow sabre fights. The PT was my first taste of Star Wars unfortunately and back then I liked movies for their special effects, not their story. Now that I'm fourteen I know better. ;)

To my credit, I never understood Jar Jar and I thought he was retarded (I still thought he was funny at times though).

EDIT: Is anyone on this forum younger than me? I feel like a little kid compared to all you old people. ;)

For a year or two the competition between Luke and Han over Leia went completely over my head. For a couple years after that I still didn't see it in ANH, though I noticed it in ESB. I thought the "I care" scene was nonsense and I couldn't figure it out until I was about eleven or twelve. :P

I think plot points went over my head more than I held actual misconceptions. For instance, I didn't get how the Death Star found the Rebel base since I didn't get the bit about the homing beacon.

Another actual misconception I had was again in ESB. I thought Lando didn't know about the Imperials on Bespin, so I thought he was more of a good guy than he really was and I didn't understand why Chewie choked him.

When I was younger I thought Order 66 was the Jedi Order, not an order for their execution. So I thought it was the 66th order in a long succession of orders.

^It'd be pretty fun if that had actually happened on screen.

Here’s a rather stupid misconception. When I was a kid and I watched this scene in ROTJ

I thought the Executor was longer than the Death Star II was large. I had no concept of scale at the time, y’see, and didn’t realize the Executor was far closer to the Millennium Falcon than the Death Star II was.

^Exactly why Lucas’ – and Lucas’ sycophants’ – claim that the saga is meant to be watched in chronological order falls flat on its face.

More of a misunderstanding than a misconception, but I used to think “There is another” referred to Darth Vader, because he ultimately is the one who defeats the emperor and I thought Yoda had the foresight to see this. Mind you I was very young at the time and the only prequel that had yet been released was TPM. Looking back, my misunderstanding sounds like something GL would ret-con into being “his original intention” nowadays.

Darth Lucas said:

More of a misunderstanding than a misconception, but I used to think “There is another” referred to Darth Vader, because he ultimately is the one who defeats the emperor and I thought Yoda had the foresight to see this. Mind you I was very young at the time and the only prequel that had yet been released was TPM. Looking back, my misunderstanding sounds like something GL would ret-con into being “his original intention” nowadays.

I think this is just evidence of you young Darth Lucas being more insightful than middle-aged George Lucas.
Using this interpretation you can short cut the originally intended sister plot to have ROTJ as the ‘final’ episode without the need to make Leia Luke’s sister.