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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Did you need to know things about the Emperor before Vader killed him to make it significant?
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I keep seeing this point, but its irrelevant. This isn't the first time anyone has seen Star Wars. You're talking about films (the original trilogy) that never had any previous reference point for the audience to draw from, so you could probably leave a lot more to the imagination. By now we have 30 years of Star Wars, additional films, various content, and an understanding of the universe (right or wrong) to contend with. You can't just expect the audience to turn off their brains and say "its ok, we don't need any information" -- not now.
I would also say the execution of Vader/Luke/Emperor story held far more weight simply because Luke (and Vader) actually had character development that meant something.
According to the interview you reference, Johnson failed at everything he supposedly tried to deliver on. The fact that he thought leaving massive narrative holes in the story was the way to drive characters forward is almost laughable. It just tells me he was trying to be overly clever in his methods instead of actually having the guts to tell a significant story.