Sepharih said:

A cop-out they may be, but Sith eyes exist in episode III to remove any doubts and give clarification that yep...he's evil all right.

I would never have gleaned that from him killing children.

I think it's fair to criticize it as somewhat lazy...

And totally unnecessary.

...but part of me feels like Luke could benefit from that given how shaky his motivations are.

Then why should his eyes turn yellow?

Sith Eyes may not be the answer, but Mark Hamill's expressions just don't "say it all" to me, and there are apparently even interpretations of the scene where he's not close to the darkside at all.

We see Luke palpably angry, powerful, losing control. I think it's the height of silliness to formally mark a turning point with gimmicky yellow eyes.

To me the best solution is to remove yellow eyes from RoTS. If the audience can't detect a hero slipping into the fast and easy path marked with anger, that's the audience's failing.

Reminds me of a discussion at work today about fast food registers that only have pictures of food on them and automatically dispense change because so many of their employees are not otherwise competent enough to handle a register. I thoroughly object to the path to Idiocracy that we're on!

Back to the topic at hand, anyone have thoughts on inserting the scenes I linked into ESB?