MalàStrana said:
The ROTJ “storytelling scene” stays a very charming moment in the saga.Sitting in the theater in 1983, that’s the very moment I knew the franchise (Lucas-penned) no longer spoke to me.
I couldn’t reconcile that bedtime story scene with the burned bodies in Star Wars.Rogue One brings back that seriousness.
ANH and TESB aren’t that serious. They are pretty funny movies with a serious treatment. The difference is that the plot and the characters are taken seriously but their adventures and interaction can be fun. There is a balance to find, a balance that has been reached in the entire OT (ROTJ included), lost in the PT (except Jar Jar and Gunray all characters are too damned serious in TPM), failed in TFA (where there is too much slasptick humor and “soap comedy”), while in R1 it’s weird (serious tone but lack of development to justify the characters behaviors; a few jokes - thanks K2 - that sometimes work). Vader killing Captains and Admiral in cold blood is serious AND cool; Vader slaughtering random rebels in a dark corridor is serious AND boring AND totally pointless. And I don’t like the idea that in the official movie canon he does not draw his red saber for the first time on screen to duel Obi-Wan (and there is now an inconsistency between Vader dueling in ANH and Vader moving like a boogeyman in R1).