They were only eating people who were foolish enough to get caught in their primitive, baited trap. Anything that fell for it was fair game. Leia didn’t fall for the trap so they didn’t eat her. The greater concern is that they were willing eat “aliens.”
The empire had already been there for years building the death star and since their soldiers are all rubbish they had probably eaten loads of humans by the time the rebels arrived
Just read all the other posts
Am distraught and discombobulated. Have watched this movie a hundred times. Never once picked up they eat people. Going to have a cup of tea and a good lis down.
That's a misinterpretation, the Ewoks were planning to cook and eat the Imperial troops, but it's not explicitly stated they eat human flesh, and they spare the Rebel heroes, showing they're not inherently cannibalistic.
They were mere moments away from cooking Han, and Threepio says he’s supposed to be the main dish at their banquet so I think we can fill in some dots there.
I assume the customs are different a long time ago in a galaxy far far away but if a bunch of teddy bears were ready to eat me and my friends until my wizard friend scared them by making my robot friend float in a chair, I would not hang out afterwards and party at the teddy bears’ treehouse.
Makes you wonder what the morally neutral stuff in SW is. Like, droids show sentience and form bonds with people yet it's okay to abuse them and reset their personalities on whims.
This makes me wonder with the above post, if eating other sentient species would be seen as okay.
Princess Leia, ever the consumate diplomat, definitely ate roast stormtrooper with the Ewoks at the Endor victory party. When asked about it later, she said it was the first time a stormtrooper ever hit the spot.
More ewoks should of caught fire. Think about it, the chance of accidental self cooking would be huge.
Ewoks would have a well established taste for Ewok long before any outsider!
The trees start talking and next thing you know, logs swing down from the sky crushing your buddy who was driving the walker. The line collapses into screams as you fire blindly into the forest as spears pierce your plastoid armor.
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Am distraught and discombobulated. Have watched this movie a hundred times. Never once picked up they eat people. Going to have a cup of tea and a good lis down.
Their larders were *packed*.
This makes me wonder with the above post, if eating other sentient species would be seen as okay.
Wicket: [tilts head sideways]
Yet…..they had a dress that fit Leia.
I’m going to have to ponder this.
Ewoks would have a well established taste for Ewok long before any outsider!