Of all the things people are breathlessly speculating about in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, the hatred aimed at porgs seems most senseless to me. Yes, I understand that people are still upset about Jar Jar Binks being a cutesy mess and some are holding a decades-old grudge against the Ewoks, but we literally know nothing about the porgs other than they look like a penguin $@#*ed a Welsh Corgi. For my money, I’m not ready to be excited or annoyed about ‘Last Jedi’ at all yet and certainly not ready to declare a new alien race The Worst Thing Ever (not least of which because I am not allowed to talk like Comic Book Guy AND look like him, and I ain’t getting any less fat and nerdy), leading to today’s Mandalorian query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) actually didn’t mind Ewoks, mostly, even when I was a surly 13-year-old, as they were clearly cannibal warrior Teddy Bears, which is pretty bad@$$, asking: Are you pro or anti porgs?
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Neither, really. I figure that in such a vast galaxy, there are going to be some cute-ish creatures just like there are on Earth. Not everything is going to be a Rancor or Varactyl or Nexu and look menacing or dangerous. But I neither particularly like nor dislike the Porgs.
It doesn’t bother me. Those look like the telepathic similar looking creatures from 80’s Marvel Star Wars Comics.
I’m kind of going light on trailer/hype stuff until the movie. Literally all I know of porgs is that they are those thing that are cheering with Chewie, which doesn’t really tell me much.
Reserving judgement until I actually see the movie.
I, for one, never understood how little cardboard discs could constitute a collector’s craze, and any comic store in the ’90s that heavily bought into them deserved to go out of business.
Wait, what?
too much like ewoks, disappointing