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Post #77293

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Slumberland
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ROTJ is worse than I remember.
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11-Nov-2004, 4:49 PM
I've always thought that Han should have been leading the attack on the second Death Star. It kills me that you have an entire movie where you never see Han at the controls of the Falcon, one of the signature images of the OT. They even tease you during the escape from Tatooine, where they show the Falcon and you hear Han's voice from the helm, but heck. I suppose there's something to be said for mixing it up, and having the Falcon flown by her old owner, but I figure if you had Lando mounting the ground attack with Leia, possible even putting the moves on her, all while Han's fate was up in the air, it would have been a lot more dramatic. But by that point all the main characters just loved eachother, hugging eachother, ribbing eachother (I hate that Lando smirk after Han says "you're the respectable one, remember?" Yeah, we remember. Sheesh.) and whatnot. Doesn't make for great drama. And then you might have been able to illustrate Han's piloting skills during the final assault. Aside from the radar dish getting clipped and the race against the fire, Lando really doesn't have that much to overcome. They upped the ante visually from the trench run in ANH (though that's arguable), they should have tried to up the tension as well.