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Knightmessenger said:C3PX said:Vaderisnothayden said:I'm not 100% sure I agree. They're celebrating, and really happy, but they celebrated and were happy at the end of 'Star Wars' also.
The celebration at the end of Star Wars was of a different kind with a different tone. The ROTJ celebration was an end-of-the-war it's-all-over we-don't-have-to-worry-about-the-future kind of celebration.
In other words, it was just like an Obama supporter's "Yes We Did!" victory party. The next day they wake up, take a look around, down a few pills for their hang over, and say, "What the fu... the stock market is still down? I don't get it? What went wrong?" Only in this case, they wake up next morning, down a few pills for there hang over, and realize, "My goodness, seems the Empire is still around! What do ya have to do to get rid of a damn Empire around here?"
I think the new ending theme gives a sense of finality while the yub nub makes it sound as if it's just one more chapter finished. Anyways, on one of the dvd commentaries (III maybe?) , Lucas states the empire can only be defeated when both sith are killed off. Which happens at the end of Jedi. So Jedi may have been thought of as just another chapter at one point but Lucas decided that he wanted to wrap it up with the third ot movie.
About the Obama thing. Anyone see the Onion video describing just that, supporters the day after.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_95F5e-Ac
Judging by the novelization's version of things I think Lucas intended it to be the ending of the empire back in 83. Being open to having more films set after ROTJ doesn't necessarily mean planning to keep the empire alive after ROTJ. If I remember rightly, there was talk about the sequel trilogy being about ruling and politics and compromises, so it could have been about buildling the new republic rather than fighting the empire.
Also re the Obama celebration, in a celebration in the real world pepple can have a certain idea that the struggle is over when they celebrate and they can be wrong (though actually the struggle to elect Obama WAS over). But in the Star Wars OT you get what it says on the tin. The ROTJ OOT celebration gave the message that the war was over and I think it makes sense to take it at face value.