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As a Jedi-in-training, Luke has gained power that’s coupled with uncertainty, because he’s not in full command of a Force that Darth Vader and the Emperor intend to use to lure him to the dark side. Nevertheless, Return of the Jedi carries a lot of momentum from The Empire Strikes Back, the best of all the Star Wars movies, which leaves it in a place where Luke has to pick himself back up from revelations about his father and the Empire’s renewed strength in crushing the resistance. (Just intercepting the blueprints for the Death Star would lead to a prequel movie, Rogue One, and perhaps the best of the Disney+ series, Andor.) Return of the Jedi is ultimately about the Rebel Alliance going to incredible lengths to seek out vulnerabilities in the rebuilt Death Star, which either says something profound about history repeating itself or is more simply a case of Lucas returning to the well. In the original Star Wars, the Rebel Alliance went to incredible lengths to seek out vulnerabilities in the Galactic Empire’s planet-zapping Death Star and destroy it. One of the problems with Return of the Jedi is that the franchise had already started to eat its own tail. There’s hardly a beat that hasn’t been significantly worked out.

The gaps between trilogies are large enough to allow for generational attachments to each one, but the integration of the entire Star Wars universe over time has had the effect of eroding rather than enriching the experience.

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It was also firmly in the hands of its creator, George Lucas, who would mothball the entire series for 16 years until tackling the prequels, with Disney’s sequel trilogy coming another 11 years after those ended. Yet Return of the Jedi, for all its flaws, still has the power to bring you back to a time when Star Wars was an event, a cohesive and awe-inspiring piece of world-building that hadn’t yet started to deconstruct itself. Even the bounty hunter Boba Fett, a minor character dropped into the pit and presumably gone forever, had his own mediocre series on Disney+. Now, the sarlacc feels more like a metaphor for the Star Wars franchise itself, which keeps grinding ceaselessly away at its own mythology, leaving no small bone or tendon undigested. “In his belly,” announces Jabba, “you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you will be digested over 1,000 years.”įorty years ago, the sarlacc seemed like the gnarliest creature in the galaxy, treating its victims to a hell that only just begins when they walk the plank and drop into the abyss of its hungry maw.

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