C3PX said:

Vaderisnothayden said:
I suspect that if ROTJ was less triumphant and more downery it might get more respect.

You might be right about that. I can't even remember how many times I have heard people say the movie would have been better had Han (or Lando) died at the end. Really don't see how that would improve anything though.

Well, I don't think Han or Lando's death would improve things per se, it's just that Han has little-to-nothing left to do in Jedi, and Lando loses any ambiguity/complexity in Jedi that he once had, so killing them off (at the beginning, not the end!) is just a way to trim the dead-weight off the film and potentially refocus efforts on the stronger storyline of Luke and the Emperor. It's not yay-face vs boo-face, in my opinion. Not that I can speak for all Jedi critics, because I actually like the film.

As for random memories, my favorite nostalgia is in trying to figure out, sometime in 1980 or so, why they leapfrogged over three episode numbers and called Empire "Episode V". Were they going to fill in the episodes that happened between Star Wars (the presumptive Episode I, of course) and Empire later? Were the numbers being skipped just to give the impression of time passing? Lots of fun childhood speculation just on that "missing material", and what it might contain.