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Post #661007

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Bingowings
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ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!
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Date created
20-Sep-2013, 7:20 PM

At no point in ROTJ can I imagine this scene :

LUKE : Jabba! this is your last chance, free us or die!

ALIEN LAUGHTER FROM THE BARGE

JABBA : Ho ho ho Put Him In!

THE ALIENS PUSH LUKE INTO THE PIT... LUKE DIES.

I can't imagine old Ben bothering to grandstand like that.

He would do or do not, though I'd like to think he would say something like.

BEN : I'm going to do a bit of rescuing, it might be dangerous. I suggest you all stay out of the way and I'll try not to blow anyone up. Though I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.

He wouldn't even need to that.

The old Jedi mindtrick might not work on Jabba but if Luke had used the voice on everyone in the room it would have trimmed the numbers down a fair whack.

Ben seemed to be more about stealth and only pulling a weapon as a matter of last resort.

He sneaks around the Death Star with relative ease, only Vader stops him.

If Vader really wanted to capture Luke he would have put a spy in Jabba's palace (maybe someone he recently hired) and at the first sign of a Han rescue he'd have gone and claimed the prize.

Instead we get to see Luke waving a big green baseball bat and this :