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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Well Hack, we'll have to disagree.
What was Luke suppossed to be troubled about. He'd had the Faustian battle for his father soul with the devil and he'd won. Not only had he won but his father had in the end redeemed himself and returned to the light side.
He had saved his friends and resisted the fall to the dark side that he'd feared.
The ultimate symbol of evil in the Emperor was dead, unless you count the really ######ed EU Empires end. The symbol of opression in the Death Star was destroyed.
In the end Luke had it all, he knew his father was saved and with his friends, all of his friends had survived and the Emperor was in effect leaderless.
And while the Empire was still there, the one key thing that we saw were multiple Imperial Planets being overthrown.
In terms of the 40's Flash Gordon or Buck Roger's serials, it was pretty much established that if you killed the evil leader (Ming the Merciless) the evil that he created would crumble.
There might have been an empire left but it was leaderless, there was now no real need to fear them as much as the Rebels had taken out its leaders and symbols. What did the Empire have left? Millions of Storm Troopers who couldn't hit the side of the barn, and a bunch of leaders who stood by the windows while muttering "Good our first catch of the day"
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Luke will never be the same kid in white pajamas he was in Star Wars again. He's irrevocably changed by the events happening here. My favorite Star Wars stories as a kid were the comics from the 90s that take place after ROTJ with Luke on the verge of falling to the temptations and power of the Dark Side again as the only way to finally rid the galaxy of the Empire. That power is tempting and once touched by it, he can never truly be rid of it. I think that is a much more adult message and much more satisfying and realistic than everyone lives happily ever after. I never cared for Flash Gorden (except for Defenders of the Earth cartoons as a kid) or happy ending 1940s serials. Lucas just loved them because they were his childhood. We all love what is in our childhood but it doesn't mean that they remain meaningful or stand up as well crafted stories when we become adults. I still love all the cartoons I grew up with for the nostalgia factor but I realize now that they are all silly and absurd and don't need to be celebrated with a new release every 10 years.