SomethingStarWarsRelated said:I'm still reading through all of your ideas, but some great comments, Bingowings!
I think we're on a similar page about ROTJ...
Did you check out my thread?
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/ROTJ-Fan-O-Matic-First-21-minutes/topic/7919/
I'd love some feedback from you on what I've done so far...
I'll comment on your stuff soon...I'm heading out the door right now...
I have read your thread before and it is tempting to start the film that way but the Death Star is a threat to the whole galaxy and specifically the goals of the Rebellion, so it makes sense to start with what matters most.
Rescuing Han almost seems like a selfish act by Luke and Leia. Both are key members of the Alliance and they risk being captured and sold on to the Empire for a friend (and in Leia's case a lover).
Yoda and Obi-Wan warned Luke about such an action (as they warned another pupil of theirs a generation before) but they both go ahead and do it anyway. Bloody Skywalkers!
Lando was a much more responsible leader but Leia in love couldn't see it and stood by as Chewie tried to strangle him.
I do worry about that girl if she did get any Jedi training, she's certainly a chip off her daddy's Japor snippet (forget the bad guys of the EU for a moment and take a good hard look, the heroes of the the original trilogy look ideally set to become the villains of the sequel trilogy which Lucas keeps telling us will never happen).
My bag with the Ewoks isn't that they are there but that they don't live up to their potential.
George rather sensatively equated the Ewoks with the South Vietnamese bringing down the technologically dependent Americans with twigs and gumption...mmm.
As uncomfortable as that sounds he does have a point (to a point).
Most people before that war, if they were aware of the Vietnamese at all, would have thought of them as funny little ethnic stereotypes.
If the Ewoks through clever manipulation and editing could be made to look less like cute merchandising prospects and more like a genuine species with a full range of emotional responses, they would be more believable as a fighting force that could take on the Empire.
As for the song in Jedi I'm not too keen on Jedi Rocks or either version of Lapti Nek (at least it wasn't Jefferson Starship) but I actually like the idea of a song, because it's genuinely rather weird and adds a chaotic and debaunched element to Jabba's court.
Perhaps if someone got all the video elements from Jedi Rocks, Lapti Nek and the Lapti Nek music video, removed the most offensively awful shots of the players and put it to a more alien sounding song it could be made to work and I have no problem with Boba chatting up the singers either.