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Snay
Member # 411
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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!
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TSN
Member # 31
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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.
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Snay
Member # 411
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Yes, but their humans aren't from Earth, they're from lots of places (presumeably after mass amounts of colonization thousands of years ago).
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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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'!!
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Sol System
Member # 30
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Indeed. Any idea when they start work on the second film?
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Vogon Poet
Member # 393
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Did anyone actually bother to go and see the 20th anniversary re-release?
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Snay
Member # 411
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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?
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Veers
Member # 661
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He's pulling your chain.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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I meant a second Star Wars film.
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Snay
Member # 411
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Uh, did you not visit theaters, silly boy?
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TSN
Member # 31
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I think he may be referencing the fact that your "ET is in TPM" news is three years old...
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Veers
Member # 661
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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 ]
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The_Tom
Member # 38
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...the same way boom mikes exist in the Star Trek universe?
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Cartman
Member # 256
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Except those mikes weren't purposely inserted
Anyhoo... I'd take ET's "canon" existence with a large barrel of salt. [ June 07, 2002, 15:22: Message edited by: Cartman ]
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Veers
Member # 661
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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 ]
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Snay
Member # 411
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Um, well, they do exist and they're pretty clearly seen on screen.
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DeadCujo
Member # 13
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I doubt they were put in as a joke, more likely they were used an homage to Steven Spielberg.
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Veers
Member # 661
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Sure, they exist, but I doubt we'll ever see official names for them or a species.
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DeadCujo
Member # 13
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Oh, and I think the fact that they're even in the movie makes them canon. Anyone remember the Yoda costume from E.T.?
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Well, read page 1 again.
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DeadCujo
Member # 13
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Oops, I didn't even see that! But it was what the whole thing made me think about.
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thoughtychops
Member # 480
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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?
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Nim Pim
Member # 205
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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.
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Commander Dan
Member # 558
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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.
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Thoughtchopper
Member # 480
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The only explanation for ET recognizing the Yoda costume would be that Lucas is an alien himself.
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