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Post #661662

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NeverarGreat
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ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!
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23-Sep-2013, 9:56 PM

imperialscum said:

Hmm what about ROTJ's final battle and ending. There are actually some fans who "want" realism and originality while at the same time would prefer to see a final rebel assault on imperial capital, ending with Emperor's destruction. That is one of the biggest contradictions I have ever heard. Poor rebels attacking the imperial capital and wining is the most unrealistic ending possible, as well as the most unoriginal and banal. Every other trilogy has a dumb ending like that (LOTR, Matrix etc).

ROTJ ending is original and unique. Taking place in some remote region (unlike the usual centre of bad guys' power) and the unique, simplistic and "crude" death of the main villain are just perfect. His most trusted agent picks him up and throws him into the shaft. Again, perfect.

Well the battle is still a bit unrealistic but that is as far as we can really go with it (considering it is a fantasy trilogy). The only more realistic thing would be Emperor dying of a heart attack and the empire collapsing as a result of in-fighting.

As the Death Star was supposed to be the "ultimate power in the universe", I assumed that the Emperor was going to use it as his new mobile capital, complete with a tower of Barad-dur. So really, the "[p]oor rebels attacking the imperial capital and winning" is exactly what happened. I wouldn't say that it was unoriginal. Sure, LOTR did it, but the Matrix Revolutions came out two decades after ROTJ, so it's Revolutions that fails to be revolutionary, not ROTJ.

As for the end being perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAOX_CHU0JY