For my final entry of Star Wars toys this week on Earth Station One I decided to cover a character that me and my son both really like.
I am a fan of Ewoks.
I get why people don’t like them, I just don’t agree. Ewoks are savage little brutes that were going to eat not only Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, but the mighty Chewbacca as well. And people scoff at the fact that they played such a big role in the Empire’s loss at the Battle of Endor. You know what? That generation of Imperials has been proven to be the most incompetent of any, while the Ewoks were wild savages backed into defending their homes and their way of life from invading aliens. If Randy frigging Quaid can save Earth from the Independence Day aliens, the Ewoks can darn sure do the same from a bunch of poorly trained morons who can’t even shoot straight and think the most efficient weapons of war are a giant dog robot that explodes when it gets tripped and a giant robot chicken that is apparently made of the Star Wars galaxy’s equivalent of tin foil.
The cloister bell rings signaling the end of an era. After seven seasons as the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker resigns and it is a depressing story in more ways than one. Mike, Mike, Dave, and the Celtic Galliferyan Ken Spivey fight the entropy and review Logopolis. For Tom Baker it is indeed the end, but “the moment has been prepared for.”
