But then he foolishly tosses away his lightsaber, leaving himself at the mercy of the Emperor.
Great, Luke defeats Darth Vader and doesn’t turn to the dark side of the Force by sparing him.
Somehow, I’ve always known.” Having Luke and Leia secretly be brother and sister neatly resolved the central love triangle, while answering Yoda’s cryptic reference to “another” hope in “The Empire Strikes Back.” But it’s hard to accept the “I’ve always known” thing given Leia’s let’s-make-Han-jealous kiss and Luke mooning over her throughout the first movie, which feels a little creepy with the benefit of hindsight. So in no particular order, here are some of those moments, and the “buts” that go with them: Still, Episode VI ill-served some of the original trilogy’s significant characters, in ways that have been debated across the decades, yielding the kind of arguments that have become one of the “Star Wars” franchise’s most renewable resources. Plus, a lot of us have been saying “It’s a trap!” when walking into uncomfortable situations for roughly the last four decades. To be fair, the movie did a lot of things well, from Luke Skywalker’s enhanced powers – put on display in the opening sequence in which he frees Han Solo – to the breakneck chase on the Ewok moon, the scope of the final space battle and the warm celebration at the end. That’s in part because those shortcomings have echoed through the years, as subsequent “Star Wars” mythology has contorted itself, sometimes messily, in order to accommodate them. Yet looking back 40 years after its initial release, as “Jedi” returns to theaters to commemorate that anniversary, the missteps made by the third movie are still irritating. When “Return of the Jedi” brought the original “Star Wars” trilogy to a close in 1983, expectations were unfairly elevated for the movie, and later tempered, by the recognition it had the misfortune to follow “The Empire Strikes Back,” one of the best sequels ever.
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