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A lot of people nowadays cite the loss of the 3 Ks as SW's downfall: Kershner & Kurtz for Jedi, Kasdan for the prequels. Kersh & Kurtz may well have made Jedi better, but there was talk at the time ('83) that Kasdan may have been part of the problem. After all, Jedi's script (Kasdan) was weaker than Empire's (Brackett & Kasdan), so, logically, Brackett was a genius and Kasdan a hack (at the time, Lucas was seen as infallible). Of course, history has shown that Lucas was probably the main culprit.
I would never fault Kasdan for any of Jedi's failings. When you look at the man's body of work in terms of screenplays, the evidence just doesn't lead to that conclusion being a logical one. Jedi's weakest points were Lucas' largest contributions...the Ewoks and everything on Endor is all him. The Endor sequence is actually a tiny window into what the prequels would be. Kasdan actually wanted to take the story to a darker place. In fact, he wanted to kill Han Solo off entirely, as did Harrison Ford. The reason the character endured was because of Lucas' demands that the character remain. I'm sure we can also attribute all the other changes to the story to Lucas as well.
The story for Jedi, as Gary Kurtz states, was MUCH different from it ultimately wound up being. I'm sure Kasdan never had Ewok's in mind, and we now know they were not part of the original plan, nor was a second death star. All that revision came from Lucas in the period after Raiders. Jedi was where Lucas began to establish his stranglehold on the process. At that point, he had two Star Wars films and Raiders to his credit. He had accumulated more managerial clout, so to speak, and could more readily assert his demands. This was where collaboration in the entire process began to evaporate for good. This is where Star Wars begins to suck. I would argue that the only thing that saved Jedi was Kasdan's influence, however diminished it was at that time.