Vaderisnothayden said:If Star Wars was meant to be realistic that would be the case, but I think it's pretty clear we're meant to take it the Empire is over at the end of ROTJ.
Really? Just because of the celebration? It was a huge victory, a great big hootenanny was most definitely called for. For some reason in all the years before the SE, I never even began to assume the Empire was over at that moment. It is not like all those Imperial bases and outposts scattered through the galaxy would just spontaneously explode because of the Death Star blew up.
Obviously that was the original intention though, thank God George made that clear with the SE.