So its all right to be absurd and ridiculous and insult the intelligence of the viewer? If Return of the Jedi was intended to be a parody / farce the idiocies of the battle on the forest moon of Endor would not matter but it was not intended to be such and so the battle is a joke.

The "its a fantasy" is a cop out because this fantasy doesn't make any sense even in relation to the mythos created in the movie series. No "plausible" reason is given for the Ewoks to win. If the Ewoks were intune with the "force" etc., "plausibility" might be rescued but has it is the outcome is totally mistifying.

I could go into details about the battle that turn it into a silly absurdity, (like the lack of Ewok corpses, and vast abundance of Storm trooper dead), but that would be redundant. Science fiction should have plausibility if only in terms of the world created by the creator of the particular world, the battle on the forest moon of Endor simply lacks it to the point of farce.

Pierre