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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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Well much of that would of been changed if they had gone with the darker ending proposed in Hack's post. If Han was dead, the Rebellion was in tatters, and Leia struggling to rule, I am sure Luke would of had a reason to believe he failed even if he were to redeem his father. That and I always assumed that the evil powers of the force are sort of like the "One Ring" in Lord of the Rings, you can never truly defeat such power within. Which is why all those who had worn the ring were sent out West where no one could find them in the end.
I for one like parts of the proposed darker ending (killing off Han), but I agree that the the rebels winning out in the end was the right direction to go in. If only they could of done something about the Ewok's, to this day most fans (including me) are still angered that they could play such a large part in overthrowing the Empire. They brought in Ewok's over Wookie's as a cost issue, but that doesn't make sense to me as Star Wars was already a billion dollar franchise by the time Jedi was being filmed, and cost shouldn't have been an issue. I am sure there are other reasons why they chose Ewok's over Wookie's, but I can barely stand the Endor scenes anymore, as it destroys a lot of the credibility the Empire had.
To me Return of the Jedi is the Temple of Doom of the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Still pretty good on its one right, but not a classic when compared to the other entries in the original series. The Ewok's are the Kate Capshaw of the original trilogy. One wonders how Return of the Jedi would of been if Spielberg were allowed to direct...