Yub Jub Means “Devour the Weak”
Following each rainy season, Ewok young, called "woklings," participate in a coming-of-age rite called thecul patu, ("culling of the pathetic" − not "summer camp" as previous interpreted by military sources).
I recently picked up FX-6, which (I think?) completes the droid staff that built mechanical Darth Vader. I love the detail on FX-6, but it is by far the most fragile figure in my collection.
It melted my heart when Lainey saw that Lucy had Artoo Potatoo, and she scampered up to me and said, "I need R2 too!"
Earlier, I promised a review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Here goes...
The Good
It goes without saying, but I'm a sucker for lightsabers and R2-D2. Plenty of both in this movie. The "vertical" battle on the side of mountain was totally cool. Whoever played Obi-Wan was dead ringer for Ewan McGregor. And I liked how they gave the clones a little personality; they seemed heroic. If they can develop that further in the series, it will add an extra wallop to Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith.
The Bad
Still a lot of cheesy, stilted dialogue coming out Lucasfilm these days. I will cut this movie some slack because it seems obviously aimed at a younger audience (the whole thing has very much a Saturday-morning-cartoon feel), but still--it doesn't need to be Shakespeare, it just needs to not induce cringing. Very little sense of urgency; of course you know that the heroes are going to make it, but you have create a least a little drama. Some parts of the plot painfully obvious, and some are needlessly complex.
The Ugly
An uncle of Jabba the Hutt as a drag queen in a seedy Coruscant nightclub? Really?
Overall
C+. Star Wars fans will have some fun; everybody else can skip it.
