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Jedi Spoiler [message #39491] Tue, 26 February 2013 23:23
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Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 13:43:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  3 13:43:05 1983
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Well, it's time to start the roaring discussions going.
ROTJ was a fine film, but not as good as the other two.  First, it was
too busy getting all the things done it had to, and second, it was not
nearly as imaginative.  There were no surprises.   So it's Leia - whoopdedo.
So Vader told the truth - tralala!  I may not have predicted these things,
but the reason I didn't was because they were too obvious, and from TESB
I got the impression Lucas liked the "Big Surprise".
So here are some questions/comments

1) Was it really the way of a Jedi to do what Luke did to the lovable
   Jabba the Hut?   There are many other ways he could have rescued Han,
   the simplest being going in at night with his Jedi mind powers, taking
   Han and leaving a suitable ransom.  Instead, he confronted Jabba
   directly, knowing this would very probably lead to a battle to the death.
   Instead of destroying his ships and killing Jabba personally, Luke could
   have had a ship ready to take them out, or just flown them out with the
   force.  Regardless, what he did smacked of revenge, and revenge is not
   the way of a Jedi, or else the movie would have had a different title.

2) Until you get to their city, the Ewoks are pure, 100% Fuzzy.  They even
   look like the fuzzies on the cover of my copy of Little Fuzzy.  They carry
   the same weapons, and the only difference is that their voices are not
   high enough in pitch.  Somebody suggested they were the characters from
   "Earthman's Burden", but I don't agree.

3) Why does a standard Imperial Throne Room include a conveniently located
   reactor shaft?

4) What extra power does the Emporor have that he can shoot blue bolts from
   his fingers?  We have never seen the force ever do anything like that
   before.  Just who is the emporor anyway?  Is the force strong in his
   family?  Is he a member of the Skywalker Clan?  Are the Skywalkers like
   the Amber family?  What about Obiwan's family.  I guess that Uncle Owen
   and Aunt Beru were not truly related to Luke.

5) It's not hard to see how Vader killed the Emporor.  Young those he was,
   Luke was no spring chicken with the force, and he was able to beat Vader
   in a fair fight.  Thus it probably was quite an effort for the old emp
   to put the blue bolts into Luke.  It sure took him long enough to kill
   him.  Some might say he was doing this for drama, but I doubt it.  I bet
   a normal man would be dead instantly with one blue bolt.  The emporor
   thus became weak enough that his iron control over Vader broke.  Vader
   was then able to cast him into the convenient reactor shaft.

6) Why did vader die?  what killed him?  Surely not the lost of his
   mechanical hand. (Like father, like son!)  Nothing else visibly was done.
   Perhaps the emporor was truly struggling with Vader as he carried him.

7) Of course if Vader had not died, then all kinds of neat things could
   have happened.  Now good, and with the Emporor gone, he would be the
   acting emporor.  He could have managed the rebellion single-handedly,
   turning the great power of the empire and the death star over to the
   Jedi for peaceful use.   Instead, they blew up the death star, which
   was quite a waste of equipment and otherwise innocent lives.

8) Where was Leia at her pappy's funeral?

9) Will Han and Leia have a kid, and will that kid be the new top Jedi?
   I bet the force is with Han to some degree, he's such good pilot and shot.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304
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