If there’s one thing that bothers me about the OT (aside from what’s already been excluded from this topic), it would be how they handled Yoda’s line, “No, there is another.” It makes even less sense because Leia is already under threat when Yoda says it. Worse, he doesn’t know what the future holds on Cloud City, so why would this other person be Leia?
If you’re asking me, a new character should’ve been introduced to take the role. Yoda would meet up with him/her, Luke could run into this other person, they’d join forces, and if we’re gonna go with a rebel victory for the ending, this other person could lead the rebels while Luke confronts his father. I’m not saying that’s perfect, but it would be a better ending for ROTJ than what we got.
This has always bugged the heck out of me! Yes, Yoda and Ben had just told Luke to sacrifice Han and Leia for the greater good, and then Yoda followed with “now matters are worse”. Hardly sounds like a guy who had just sensed that Leia would be rescued and immediately groomed for Jedi-hood. interestingly she’s not “too old” to begin the training…
I always felt Boba Fett should’ve been the ‘other’. He could’ve been someone who had trained under Yoda, abandoned the training, and taken on the bounty hunter mantle in order to infiltrate the Empire by doing bounty gigs for Vader/Palpatine. Instead of killing his targets he would be sparing their lives and creating his own secret army somewhere (hence Vader’s “no disintegrations” line) - that would explain his determination to keep Han Solo alive. Ha could turn the tide of the final battle by bringing in his fleet of pals (kind of like Lando in TROS) while Luke confronts Vader…(of course I’m thinking of Fett circa 1980, not the modern version)…