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Actually, one thing I discovered was the whole divorce=TOD thing doesn't work. Lucas got divorced after TOD had been filmed--let alone written! He was flying to the set in Sri Lanka while Marcia was editing ROTJ in the spring of 1983. The shooting script was locked by April 18, 1983, when cameras started rolling on the bridge scene, with Lucas there manning the B-camera--whereas the divorce wasn't even announced until June, and then didn't get rolling legally until some time after. In fact, TOD may have even caused the divorce, rather than the other way around--Lucas at this time was swearing that ROTJ would be his last film and that he would finally settle down and be a family man, yet here he is jetting around the world to south Asia making another Indiana Jones film before Jedi is even done cutting! It very well could have been a deal-sealer, knowing it would continue to be made into 1984; Lucas once again was saying one thing but then doing the complete opposite.
The violent tone probably does reflect the unsettled state of mind Lucas was in at the time though, due to his marriage about to unravel and his general unpleasantness about the direction his life had headed in. But I think the link between his divorce and TOD is overstated by him. He probably just associates them because the divorce occurred at the time the film was being made, but the dark tone and violence of TOD was decided as far back as 1982 when the script was first written, and it was already committed to celluloid when the divorce finally was decided.