AntcuFaalb said:

What exactly did Harrison and Carrie not do? Their acting in ROTJ is A-OK by me.

I actually think neither Han nor Leia as scripted in ROTJ gave them much to work with. It's a lackluster performance IMO, but they'd turned into lackluster characters, so IMO you can't blame the actors too much for failing to make them shine.

Fisher did great in SW, switching on a dime between damsel in distress and sassy take-charge heroine. Then in ESB, she was a respectable leader fighting with her secret passion. In ROTJ, she was all damsel all the time, sometimes in distress, sometimes not. Bleh, no complexity at all. Good enough for your storybook princess, maybe, not for Leia.

Solo was the can-you-trust-him-or-not scoundrel in SW, where you weren't even sure he'd show up for the final battle. And then in ESB he hatched brilliant escape plans one minute and complained about the hyperdrive not being his fault the next--strategic genius or overgrown child, who could tell? In ROTJ, he... well, he leads a mission, and he does use trickery to accomplish it, yes, but he's always a good guy. Even worse, a reliable good guy. Yawn. Even Lando, who pulled a shift as the can-you-trust-him-or-not scoundrel in ESB, skips straight to reliable good guy in this one.

My opinion on that anyway. What I liked about Star Wars was that, while it certainly was based on storybook archetypes as old as dirt, it tweaked them enough to keep it interesting. ROTJ had some good moments and I actually enjoy it, but Han and Leia were not the best parts.