Huh, I always thought RotJ happened immediately (or within a few days) after ESB…
Lando has had time to infiltrate Jabba’s joint, gain trust and become “one of the guys”.
Luke has gone from disgraced student to damn-near master.
These things take some time.
I’ve always figured on a couple years between OT films.
Between SW & ESB the Rebellion has had time to pack up and move to a frozen planet where they set up a massive, militarized, underground base. That had to have taken a year or more.
I’d say 2/3 years between each film is fitting.
Between SW & ESB 3 years is acceptable, because there is nothing to suggest anything otherwise.
But between ESB and ROTJ there is.
Even in Jabba’s palace, a fully trained damn-near Jedi master could just do whatever he wants.
Luke was no damn-near master or even close. Not even a fully trained Jedi knight.
Luke did not train between movies, because he would have been back on Dagobah, but he wasn’t.
Surely he did learn a lot from the first fight, that can not be learned with training, and that could’ve been enough to beat Vader. And he wasn’t scared of him anymore, since he was convinced that Vader has no intention to destroy him.
I read somewhere here a perfect explanation how Lando can infiltrate and gain trust in a couple of weeks.
You say 2/3 years of Luke doing nothing but leaving his friend hanging on a wall is fitting?
I wouldn’t think so.
More like 2/3 months tops.
And I wouldn’t think it is relevant what G.L. said prior to the movie, or what some illogical “canon” says.
I remember there was a time when Flat Earth was “canon”. It is not anymore.