"But in the 1985 Star Wars TV movie Ewoks: Battle for Endor, presumably aimed at children, young Cindel (Aubree Miller) watches as her parents and brother are murdered in front of her. She's maybe 8 years old, tops. And the reason why her entire family is slaughtered? Because this bizarre Star Wars movie didn't want a cute little girl to have a human family, but instead, she had to get adopted by the Ewoks."
"The Battle for Endor was a sequel to the 1984 milquetoast TV movie, The Ewok Adventure, which is decidedly less hardcore than its successor. In the first film, Cindel and her brother Mace Towani (Eric Walker) were searching for their parents after crash-landing on Endor. The Ewoks helped them, and so that was a nice ending to that little story, right?"
"Wrong! Because The Battle of Endor is here to point out that you don't even need the Empire to have a child's parents slain before their eyes. In fact, the motivations of the Marauders, the villains in The Battle for Endor, are vague, and the powers of their sorceress leader Charal (Siân Phillips) were even vaguer. If you were baffled by the powers of the space witches in The Acolyte or , The Battle for Endor is here, asking you to hold its beer."
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a 1985 Star Wars TV movie that portrays unexpectedly dark events for a children's audience. Young Cindel witnesses the murder of her parents and brother, then becomes adopted by the Ewoks. The film is a sequel to 1984's The Ewok Adventure, which featured a less severe arc where the Ewoks helped two children find their parents. The Battle for Endor replaces the hopeful resolution with inexplicable villainy from Marauders and a sorceress leader, Charal, whose powers and motives remain vague. Elements from the film, like the Blurrgs, later reappear in other Star Wars media.
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