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Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

Watching the scene in The Phantom Menace when Amidala calls for the vote of non-confidence in Vallorum, there are many aliens cheering and jeering.

In the second shot of the Senate after she's called the vote, bottom left of the screen, you can see a bunch of tan aliens with long necks jumping about.

It's pretty clear they're the same aliens as seen in E.T.

So does this mean E.T. is canon to "Star Wars?" 'Cuz it occurs to me that what's-his-face plays with Star Wars action figures. So that's just sorta ... wierd!

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, if you want to do it that way, you could say they're already in the same canon, since they both have humans in them.

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

Yes, but their humans aren't from Earth, they're from lots of places (presumeably after mass amounts of colonization thousands of years ago).

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

This explains why ET wants to walk up to the kid dressed as YODA!! He thought that "Master Yoda is here too, and he could probably help me get home" not "hey he looks like me" or "hey another alien'!!

[Smile]

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Indeed. Any idea when they start work on the second film?

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

Did anyone actually bother to go and see the 20th anniversary re-release?

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

I didn't. Then again, I never liked E.T. a whole lot (I know, I'm evil).

There's going to be a sequel? Or is Simon pulling my chain?

Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :

He's pulling your chain.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I meant a second Star Wars film.

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

Uh, did you not visit theaters, silly boy?

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I think he may be referencing the fact that your "ET is in TPM" news is three years old...

Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :

TSN: Well, everyone already knew that. They just were polite and didn't say anything. I hardly think Snay just learned of it now. Besides, the point of the thread was showing ET "exists" in the SW Universe.

[ June 07, 2002, 15:01: Message edited by: Veers ]

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

...the same way boom mikes exist in the Star Trek universe?

Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :

Except those mikes weren't purposely inserted [Wink]

Anyhoo... I'd take ET's "canon" existence with a large barrel of salt.

[ June 07, 2002, 15:22: Message edited by: Cartman ]

Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :

Yes, they are an in-joke, so they probbly don't really exist in the SW Universe.

[ June 07, 2002, 16:43: Message edited by: Veers ]

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

Um, well, they do exist and they're pretty clearly seen on screen. [Smile]

Posted by DeadCujo (Member # 13) on :

I doubt they were put in as a joke, more likely they were used an homage to Steven Spielberg. [Big Grin]

Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :

Sure, they exist, but I doubt we'll ever see official names for them or a species.

Posted by DeadCujo (Member # 13) on :

Oh, and I think the fact that they're even in the movie makes them canon. Anyone remember the Yoda costume from E.T.? [Smile]

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Well, read page 1 again.

Posted by DeadCujo (Member # 13) on :

Oops, I didn't even see that! But it was what the whole thing made me think about. [Smile]

Posted by thoughtychops (Member # 480) on :

ET used the force a couple of times in the movie, like when he was building the phone. Maybe he was a jedi.

Eh, I guess not. Why didn't he just go ape-shit and chop the feds into horse meat with his lightsabre?

Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :

It is called an "Easter Egg", children, like the scrapped spacepod with the griparms from "2001: A Space Odessey" lying around in Watto's backyard scrap heap.

Posted by Commander Dan (Member # 558) on :

Remember, Star Wars takes place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” So, by the time of the movie (E.T.), the E.T.s would have achieved intergalactic travel. Perhaps E.T. recognized Yoda (the kid in the costume) from history. Or, perhaps he simply recognized Yoda’s species.

Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :

The only explanation for ET recognizing the Yoda costume would be that Lucas is an alien himself.