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-Han dies in the carbonite.

But ESB established that he survived the freezing process. There was never any question, hint, or suspicion that he would die after being encased in carbonite. Threepio's words were, IIRC, "He should be quite well preserved, if he survived the freezing process, that is." Lando confirmed that Han did, in fact, survive. So he shouldn't die in carbonite.



She can fly, too?

Wait, Ackbar can fly, too? With those big rubbery hands?

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If best comes to best, or otherwise, we could always simply make a novel-sized story with images to support the theme. Mainly, we want to redo Return of the Jedi to better accomodate logic. The movie of ROTJ was half-assed... we want to go back and complete it, if not redo it as you have seen an example of in the above article.

Established facts gets debunked all the time. Just because you survived a car crash doesn't mean you aren't going to die in the hospital at a later time. Just because the doctor says you will live, doesn't mean it's completely impossible for you to die the exact same evening. There was strong doubt in everyone at that time whether Han would live or not. And it made Leia's kiss to Han much more meaningful if he never got to see her again. In ROTJ, it is so cut-and-dry that it pretty much renders the sad ending of ESB assinine and pointless. There is no lasting effect of loss or slight darkness.

First of all, Han's survival wasn't just established, it was firmly established. There are the two points of evidence I mentioned in my proof above, and to those, I wish to add a third piece of evidence. The only reason Vader had Han frozen was to test the freezing apparatus's suitability for freezing Skywalker. He was worried that the facility was crude, and his subject would not survive the freezing process. He wanted Skywalker to survive his journey to the Emperor. Would Vader put someone in carbonite if there was even the slightest danger that, after surviving the freezing process, they would randomly die a few days later? Of course not; Vader fully expected anyone who survived the freezing process to be perfectly safe inside the carbonite.

As for "debunking" facts, capriciously "debunking" an established fact in a dramatic work is dangerous. The audience's trust in the storyteller will waver if he changes his mind on the big things for no real in-text reason. If the storyteller establishes that Han is alive with statements by several characters and story logic, then says, "Oh, he's dead after all," everything else the storyteller promised earlier in the story will be called into question.

And the ending of ESB wasn't sad. It was cathartic. It went so far as to visually depict Luke's external healing to evoke in the audience the idea that he had healed internally, as well. It's a real stretch to see most of the heroes escape the villain, reunite in a place of safety, have their injuries practically (and magically, to the audience) reversed, look upon a sight of singular beauty, hear stirring music -- and call it "sad."



So now her village was primitive, too? And she flies an X-wing against an Imperial superweapon? Sounds like something out of an L. Ron Hubbard novel. You can call this thing Battlefield Endor when you finish it.

Since when does the Force "withhold" itself from people? The PT/OR Jedi made their headquarters on the most cosmopolitan planet in the galaxy, there was nothing primitive about them, and they were strong in the Force. Vader and Palpatine enjoyed every technological benefit available to men in their position, and they were strong in the Force. There's no evidence that the Force has some sort of culturally regressive bias, or that it's even aware of relative cultural development. Nor is there any evidence that the Force is sentient enough to withhold itself from the unworthy.

The closest we've got to the Force choosing who can wield it is the Force balancing itself by creating a "Chosen One" to wipe out the lightsiders when they vastly outnumbered the darksiders -- and even that is veiled by vague Jedi eschatology and bias. But that's from the prequels, so can be safely ignored here on OriginalTrilogy.com, I think.

Now, perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but you're using Leena's advantage in the Force to respond to my incredulity over her ability to fly an X-wing. The Force may be powerful enough to let a "primitive" person fly an X-wing into battle, but that kind of extremely technical instinct is far beyond anything we've seen Force-users do to date. Luke had years of flying experience before he flew Red 5, and even then, he was only given the fighter in the gravest do-or-die emergency. The attack on the Death Star II was well-planned, and it's doubtful they had spare X-wings sitting around that they'd loan out to some primitive without a single hour of flight time.

I'm sure you want to come back with something like, "Well, maybe one of the X-wing pilots got the flu or lost his glasses, WE DON'T KNOW!!!" And that's a perfectly possible story development. But it's so unlikely as to beggar belief.

Luke didn't lose a father. His father was already long lost to evil. He gained him back by convincing him to be non-evil. And now his father's spirit can be with him forever.