It’s so weird to me that people see Luke vs. Guards as something other than a force choke.
I wonder if part of it could be that for years, I could only watch it on VHS in pan and scan. Letterboxing just wasn’t done in 1983. The guards putting their hands on their necks might have been cut out of the frame. I only saw the widescreen version once in 1983 and then pan and scan for years until the SE came out in the theaters.
I know this is ridiculous (and off-topic) but I recently bought the early 90s VHS trilogy on ebay. As lame as the format is, there’s something so beautifully nostalgic about watching them in this format again after so many years. I tried to digitise them but can’t get past the copy-protection…