Heh, I'm perfectly willing to admit that it wasn't a very good idea and that it was implemented very badly in RotJ, but I'm also saying that I can accept it.

Originally posted by: CO
For whatever anyone thinks of ROTJ, I give Lucas credit for crafting a non-typical story ending with Vader. Lucas could have easily played the 'revenge' card that pervades so many movies, but if you watch ROTJ again, can you name a movie that the protagonist and antagonist meet face to face and don't have a fight, and just talk? Your typical movie would be Luke kill Vader and then finally kill The Emperor with the help of Han/Leia at the end, and everyone lives happily ever after. Lucas I believe tried to make a different story then your usual one in terms of how ROTJ plays out, and sure he may have miscalculated with Leia and Luke as siblings, but overall I always felt the story of the OOT as a trilogy worked real well.

I agree. That spiritual ending, along with the highly emotional climax of ESB will cause me to always be a fan of the trilogy as a whole. Star Wars is the foundation for the later two films, and is the greatest of the bunch because of that, but I believe that the later two really expand my enjoyment beyond it. Return of the Jedi, while not nearly as great a movie as the first two, still has some really great moments in my mind.