Chances are, if you're a Star Wars geek like I am, you've noticed or are at least aware of members of E.T.'s species present in the Galactic Senate in the Phantom Menace. In the scene where Eliott shows him his Star Wars action figures, then how come E.T. doesn't recognize them. Or should I chalk it up to it's just a movie enjoy it?
shareHow do we know he didn't recognize them? E.T. seems genuinely curious at everything he's being shown in that particular scene. Plus, he has no real way to communicating with Elliott, as they have just met.
And don't forget, he recognized the kid dressed as Yoda. ๎
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That moment when he went after the trick-or-treater was awesome ("Home, Home"), as was his attempt to heal the older brother's "ouch" which was a fake axe through the head.
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I was just watching ET again last night and I chuckled at how many Star Wars references there were. Really reflective of the culture at the times and it helps that Speilberg and Lucas are besties.
shareHe may have not known about Lando and Bespin either, since both were hidden, and Star Wars took place in an indeterminate time in the past and ET presumably takes place in 1982.
shareStar Wars has HUMANS in it. Obviously there is no "Earth" in Star Wars but in that story any being that looks just like a person from Earth due to a very large amount of convergent evolution is called "human".
Well its possible that a high amount of convergent evolution beings very similar to E.T. evolved separately.
I would think ET would have seen enough humanoids to be familiar with what they looked like since the humanoids in the Star Wars galaxy look like the humanoids on Earth according to what we've seen in the films anyway.
shareET clearly uses the Force! not saying he is a Jedi as we know marz is not yet she can wield the force!
He first uses it the plasticine planets to show were he lives! then later to construct he telacomunications device! And he is so strong in the force he can elevate him self and several outhers at the same time.shame all the Jedi are long gone! No one left to teach him
It's a sequence of random images.
Most people know about that Phantom Menace easter egg, Fox owns both properties so the effects guys stuck that in, totally meaningless just like Predator 2's Alien skull, which also meant nothing.
Chances are, if you're a Star Wars geek like I am, you've noticed or are at least aware of members of E.T.'s species present in the Galactic Senate in the Phantom Menace.That doesn't really mean anything. It's just a cinematic Easter egg. If we were to suppose that the universes are linked in some way, we still can't assume that E.T. knew much of anything about the Star Wars galaxy. Hell, for all we know, the some of the various species (including members of E.T.'s and Yoda's species) in the Star Wars stories originated from the Milky Way, that perhaps the humans there originated from Earth (via "ancient alien" abduction), rather than the other way around. Or, both galaxies evolved independently yet similarly, whereby multiple solar systems hosting Earth-like planets existed and were host to lifeforms that followed evolutionary tracts that produced Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Wherever E.T. was from, he was at least familiar with a species equivalent or similar to that of Yoda's. We don't even know that E.T. was as he appeared, a terrestrial and an alien. He might've been a physical manifestation of somebody's dream or an interdimensional being, an Amazing Stories creature. Maybe other members of his species are also like this. They might be like the Star Wars equivalent of the Q from Star Trek, for all we know, but far less omnipotent and far more vulnerable. There are things that they (if they're all like E.T.) can do, in terms of telepathy and telekinesis (and even "creating life" or prolonging it), that surpasses what any known Jedi or Sith can do. share
ET might know Yoda... Yoda was like 800 years old in Return of the Jedi.. ET and his companions in the spaceship could have left a long time ago.. Just because they are from the Star Wars universe it doesn't mean he knows all of the key figures..
Another theory is that ET also looks like he is at least Force Sensitive.. That could be another reason why he recognized Yoda. Perhaps within Yodas lifetime he helped train ET to recognize his powers..
Just a thought..
It's a sequence of random images.
If Yoda trained him, more than half of what happened in the whole movie wouldn't exist.
It is pleasable that they took place in same universe but remember star wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxey far away.
He does use force like abilities and there is this http://40.media.tumblr.com/b8c61b0055575761d8cf938a8b67ec43/tumblr_nzcw62PUq11rrwfxno1_1280.jpg
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they should package this as e.t. a star wars story for the ultimate star wars 5k set.
shareI mean, it WAS a long time ago, and who's to say E.T. received a classical education on his home planet? Do you think the average person today would be able to identify a Socrates action figure? Just because some members of E.T.'s race were part of the Galactic Senate way back when doesn't mean every citizen of the planet today knows who Luke Skywalker was.
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