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Chewtobacca
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If you had your choice, would you have wanted George Lucas to stop after 1977?
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30-Aug-2010, 12:02 AM

Easterhay said:

But if Kurtz is to be believed, he would've gone with the downbeat ending to the film.  We'd already had that with ESB.  The story has to have a celebratory ending, like it or not, otherwise it's sending out completely the wrong message.

I do not see why it "has to" have a celebratory ending.  The word Kurtz used was "bittersweet", implying a more mixed ending; not downbeat like Empire Strikes Back, nor essentially celebratory, which the original Star Wars film had already done, but something in between.  It strikes me that this would have made a more thoughtful ending to the saga.