Vaderisnothayden said:Akwat Kbrana said:A. 1983
Moreover, as has been pointed out many times before, the multi-planet celebration sequence - while visually impressive and fun to watch (apart from the Naboo & Gungan part, that is) - ultimately makes no sense. Really, George? The Death Star just blew up mere minutes ago, and planets all across the galaxy are simultaneously setting off fireworks and rejoicing en mass? Really?? You're implying that the whole conflict is over instantly? Just based on the fact that one battlestation was destroyed and one despot was killed? Really??
Except the conflict being over instantly was implied by the ending of the original ROTJ and was in the novelization ("The empire was dead. Long live the alliance.") The SE introduced nothing new there, just made it all the more clear.
I don't see that implication in the 83 version of the film at all. To me it comes off bright and clear that a land mark battle was won, but nothing more. Unless there was some line in the film to suggest that the entire bloody fleet was flocked around Endor along with all of the Imperial forces, and if that were the case, what a bunch of dumb shits for going after the Death Star instead of flying into the Imperial city and taking it over while they are all off on their Endorian picnic. The fact that there are still Star Destroyers out there kind of makes it hard for me to agree with you one about it being implied in the original. And I believe in another thread you called the ROTS novelization EU, I wouldn't disagree with you on that, but I'd only have to assume you'd consider the ROTJ novelization EU as well. Which I do. The line "the empire was dead. Long live the alliance" is a rather poorly thought out line too, considering you wouldn't need the Rebel Alliance to live long, since their purpose was served.
This is either the third or fourth thread this debate has made it into up until now. It is kind of a pointless debate, I see no sign of either side swaying in the least. However, I will tell you that if you'd like to convince us, we are going to need some cold hard evidence of your claim that it is implied in the 1983 version of the film. And by cold hard evidence, I do not mean things like, "it is an illogical fantasy story, and instantly ending the Empire is illogical, therefore that was the original intention" or "clearly they are celebrating as hard as they are because they won the entire war, had it just been a mere battle they won, it would be a much smaller party..."