The issues with dialogue from the prequels is evident in ROTJ. There are lines in ROTJ that sound like something from AOTC.
What lines are you thinking of, out of curiosity?
Han’s line when he comes out of carbonite:
- Luke? A Jedi? I’m out of it for a little while and everybody gets delusions of grandeur.
That sounds like dialogue straight out of the mouth of attack of the clones Obi-Wan. you can even hear it in obi-wans voices as you read it lol.
Leia’s delivery of this line:
- No! Luke, run away, far away! If he can feel your presence, then leave this place!.
I love melodramatic star wars, and this line sounds like it comes out of the mouth of Padme. Leia normally spoke like an actual person, but this whole line & the way she says it feels so out of character.
Once Leia’s hair is let down on Endor, Carrie’s performance is so weird in hindsight.
I agree. I think the reason these lines pass (while the PT lines get memed) is that the acting for both these scenes is so emotionally driven it overrides any of the ridiculous writing (granted they’re still weird lines, but they’re not funny in the way the Prequels are). For Han, as a sarcastic character it fits his personality. For Leia, you can tell she’s emotionally distraught by Luke’s words and is doing everything she can to convince him to say.
If you placed these lines into the context of the PT, however, with Obi-Wan muttering “delusions of grandeur” to Anakin without context and Padme saying “run away” to Anakin in some melodramatic way, they’d almost certainly be made fun of. Lucas just isn’t an actor’s director.