Earth Stuff in The Star Wars Galaxy

[JD]

I was watching the first Ewok movie this morning, and I was surprised to see so many different Earth animals that they didn't even try pretend they were some kind of Star Wars creatures, they were just horses, goats, chickens and ferrets. This got me thinking of other things we've seen in the Star War Galalxy that are the same as what we have here on Earth. Obviously the biggest one is humans, who appear to be pretty much identical to Earth humans.
We have seen some other animals, like the snakes and lizards on Dagobah, and I swore somewhere we saw a dog or cat.
And I thought somewhere along the line, in one of the books or something, we had a person drinking either coffee or hot chocolate.
Are there any other examples of stuff that they didn't try turn into some Star Wars version of whatever it is, and just presented it as the same as it is on Earth?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I know this novel never actually got written (beyond the first three chapters), but I fully accept Alien Exodus as part of SW continuity.

 

[Ithekro]

There are ducks on Naboo.

Earth, if it existed in a similar location as it does now, would be Outer Rim or the Unknown Regions.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Earth/Legends

Not a direct reference to Earth, but a reference to an alien from the Star Wars galaxy visiting Earth:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Asogian
(click to enlarge)

 

[dupersuper]

There are ducks on Naboo.

Earth, if it existed in a similar location as it does now, would be Outer Rim or the Unknown Regions.

No: we're in a galaxy far far away.

 

[KennyB]

I was watching the first Ewok movie this morning, and I was surprised to see so many different Earth animals that they didn't even try pretend they were some kind of Star Wars creatures, they were just horses, goats, chickens and ferrets. This got me thinking of other things we've seen in the Star War Galalxy that are the same as what we have here on Earth. Obviously the biggest one is humans, who appear to be pretty much identical to Earth humans.
We have seen some other animals, like the snakes and lizards on Dagobah, and I swore somewhere we saw a dog or cat.
And I thought somewhere along the line, in one of the books or something, we had a person drinking either coffee or hot chocolate.
Are there any other examples of stuff that they didn't try turn into some Star Wars version of whatever it is, and just presented it as the same as it is on Earth?

1984 ABC Movies of The Week were a different kind of things all together........audiences weren't as cynical either.......

 

[Reverend]

This is the point in the thread where I feel I have to remind everyone that Star Wars is a space fantasy fairytale, not sci-fi, and should be engaged with as such. It's a thing that's made by real people in the real world with budgetary, logistical, and practical realities. So yeah, chickens and ducks and fish and birds are a thing. But also, so are humans; so who really cares?
Don't get me wrong, there is a threshold of how much "real" things can be there at a time before it starts to not feel like Star Wars anymore (and that poorly disguised actual commercial glider in the Ewok movies came close) but none of this has crossed that line for me.

Any attempt to link the "real" world to Star Wars no only misses the whole point of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . .", but is also an inherently futile, and frankly tedious endeavour.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, I get that, but I was still curious what other examples there were. It's just that usually they try to do at least something to make it more Star Warsy, like changing horses into Orbaks in Rise of Skywalker, so I was just curious how often they didn't.
I was mainly looking at this from a real world, production stand point, not necessarily trying to make it into a connection between Earth and the Star Wars Galaxy.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

so who really cares?

Good question.

Any attempt to link the "real" world to Star Wars no only misses the whole point of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . .", but is also an inherently futile, and frankly tedious endeavour.

People are just having a bit of harmless fun talking about a fictional fantasy franchise, so who really cares?

It's not as if anything said here will be applied to the franchise or is obligated to be followed by anyone in fandom. It's just some silly playing around.

 

[Kor]

...hot chocolate.
...

Oh my, that brings back some memories I haven't thought of in ages. Hot chocolate made its first appearance in Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire." Lando taught Luke how to make it, and apparently it was this rare and exotic thing that Lando had found in his travels. The reference to this beverage struck me as rather odd; I thought it was more of an "in-joke," vaguely implying that something from Earth could make its way all the way to their galaxy. Apparently Zahn got some flack from readers because they considered hot chocolate to be too Earth-specific.

I always found it interesting how certain human characters in both movies and novels have very Earth-sounding names. "Luke," "Maximilian," "Orson," "Kyle," and more.

Kor

 

[Reverend]

Oh yeah, I get that, but I was still curious what other examples there were. It's just that usually they try to do at least something to make it more Star Warsy, like changing horses into Orbaks in Rise of Skywalker, so I was just curious how often they didn't.
I was mainly looking at this from a real world, production stand point, not necessarily trying to make it into a connection between Earth and the Star Wars Galaxy.

Oh sure, I was just heading it off at the pass since once people start bringing in time travel and Lucas & Spielberg's reciprocal tributes, it tends to get very silly, very fast.

From a real world perspective, the simple answer is that the Ewok movies were relatively cheap TV productions (100% financed by Lucas IIRC) and live chickens are a very cheap and fairly reliable way to add some wildlife to a scene. I guess they could have tried adding appliances, or making them a weird colour or something, but why bother? They're just there for the scenery, and there's plenty of Ewoks, Blurgs, Goraks, Marauders, and Teek to fulfil the exotic Star Warsy quota.

 

[Unicron]

What about chicken duck women?

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[Christopher]

I always found it interesting how certain human characters in both movies and novels have very Earth-sounding names. "Luke," "Maximilian," "Orson," "Kyle," and more.

And not just the English-sounding ones. "Han" is a Chinese and Korean surname and a Dutch given name. "Yoda" is a Japanese surname, and so is "Tano." (The name "Ahsoka Tano" basically sounds like Japanese for "Oh, really, Tano?")

 

[David cgc]

Eh, I don't want to talk about Earth stuff.

 

[Kor]

Eh, I don't want to talk about Earth stuff.

"You want to go home and rethink your life."

Kor

 

[Ithekro]

Oh my, that brings back some memories I haven't thought of in ages. Hot chocolate made its first appearance in Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire." Lando taught Luke how to make it, and apparently it was this rare and exotic thing that Lando had found in his travels. The reference to this beverage struck me as rather odd; I thought it was more of an "in-joke," vaguely implying that something from Earth could make its way all the way to their galaxy. Apparently Zahn got some flack from readers because they considered hot chocolate to be too Earth-specific.

I always found it interesting how certain human characters in both movies and novels have very Earth-sounding names. "Luke," "Maximilian," "Orson," "Kyle," and more.

Kor

Harkens back to Babylon 5 and that in that region of space, every known intelligent species had a version of Swedish meatballs and it was treated as one of the great mysteries of the universe.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I was watching the first Ewok movie this morning

I take it self-harm is your thing?

and I was surprised to see so many different Earth animals that they didn't even try pretend they were some kind of Star Wars creatures, they were just horses, goats, chickens and ferrets. This got me thinking of other things we've seen in the Star War Galalxy that are the same as what we have here on Earth. Obviously the biggest one is humans, who appear to be pretty much identical to Earth humans.

Expressions, terms or references are in the SW films, such as:

"What the Hell are you are doing?!?" - Han Solo

--then i'll see you in Hell!" - Han Solo.

Unlike the quasi-slang/curse of the line in Star Wars, "...see you in Hell" is a very specific reference originally based on the location referenced by various Earth religions.

 

[Tuskin38]

And then the side lore tried to explain by saying hell was part of a Corellian religion.

 

[fireproof78]

And then the side lore tried to explain by saying hell was part of a Corellian religion.

Wasn't ten different layers? I thought I read that somewhere.

 

[Kor]

Wasn't ten different layers? I thought I read that somewhere.

A couple books referred to the "nine Corellian hells." I don't think they went into much detail, though. Corellian hell(s) may have been related to the concept of "Chaos" shared by certain cultures, a part of the Netherworld of the Force where the spirits of Sith Lords and other powerful evil beings were stuck, or something like that. I think the ideas about "Chaos" and its nature were meant to build on Vader's line to Captain Antilles in novelization of the first movie: "Chaos take your mission!" Vader had some interesting lines in the early tie-in stuff, like in the last issue of the original comic book adaptation when his TIE Fighter was knocked off its course in the Death Star trench: "BY THE IMMORTAL GODS OF THE SITH!"

Kor