Originally posted by: Guy Caballero
I'm sorry I just don't see the trilogy (including Empire) as that type of story. A happy ending is the appropriate ending. Just my opinion.

Not to disagree with you or nothing, but at the time of that concept, there were plans for a third trilogy to come after the OT, so that downer ending would not have been the end. And if Lucas had stayed the course and kept putting one out every three years, we probably would have had the ninth and final movie in 2001.

That actually boggles my mind just thinking of it.