10 Star Wars Moments That Are Incredibly Stupid

4. The Ewoks Worship C-3PO As A God - Return Of The Jedi

c3po Seriously, why would they worship 3PO? Because he€™s a droid? Look, these guys have been living on a planet full of machines, droids, etc. for years (all the time it must have taken to build that Death Star). How could they not have seen droids before? I actually don€™t mind the Ewoks in general, because I like the symbolism of indigenous peoples fending off technologically advanced invaders by turning the forest against them. The problem is their cheap representation as €œprimitive.€ They don€™t have a sophisticated culture: they€™re teddy bears. They have language, which implies intelligence, but they worship a prissy droid as a god. What the what?
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Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.