Blammo

The current header tag ("We're all fine down here. How are you?") should be a sign to some readers that my New Year's Day was spent with the Star Wars trilogy playing in the semi-background.

Inspired by various details in the film that (to some small extent) screamed out for an explanation, I went to wikipedia and clicked around the myriad articles that they have up about the Star Wars universe.

I was particularly taken with this article, about what seems to be referred to as "The Endorian Holocaust." This is an event which some Star Wars scholars posit will have occurred immediately after the conclusion of The Return of the Jedi. Specifically, the logic goes, the explosion of the second Death Star would create such environmental mayhem on the nearby moon of Endor, that the adorable Ewoks would almost certainly have been wiped out.

The article, in typical wikipedian fashion, tries to keep a balance between the Pro-EH factions ("even a non-scientist like Lucas can hardly have thought blowing the Death Star right next to the forest moon of Endor in a manner that clearly produced a fragmentation pattern, could possibly be good for it"), and anti ("it would be uncharacteristic for the Rebel characters to callously celebrate amid a friendly population doomed by their actions") without considering the obvious: That the pro-Endorian Holocaust folks only came up with it because they don't like Ewoks and find the idea of wiping them out amusing.