I have to admit that when I picked up my copy of "The Annotated Screenplays" again to read Episode V's final lines in advance of your final instalment for it, I noticed "Ow!" in it myself. Still, I'd also reflected on your own choice. In the face of "The Empire Strikes Back is the unassailable high point (and everything else is a bitter letdown) because Return of the Jedi wasn't as dark," I have come to insist "hope remains" in its conclusion. Luke's resilience here, too, reflects on certain third-party story extensions... even if I know that to dwell too much on "the negative" isn't healthy at all.
Instead, at the possible risk of being even more controversial, I also have to admit to some maudlin moods in the past week, thinking that some medical news might put us all "in between TESB and RotJ," with the risks still high but some possibility of future hope making our choices matter all the more. I don't want to imagine too much too soon, but if your Episode VI coverage runs for a while as well, it just might be things will be getting better when it reaches its conclusion...
Anyway, I am old enough to have "lived in between TESB and RotJ" myself, but I was young enough I don't recall speculating very much as to what could happen in the next movie. I might have distracted myself by reading scattered issues of the old Marvel Star Wars comic book. As much as they faced their own limitations on getting to move the story forward, they might have kept me from bothering to read the novel written in the 1990s that was supposed to be "the official in-between story," much less play its video game or listen to its "soundtrack album." (In between Attack of the Clones and Episode III, I think I'd settled into "not wanting to make my own theories out of the risk of latching on to them instead of the actual movie to come," although I was oddly energized at the first reports Anakin and Padme would have scenes together in the upcoming film, even given the RotJ novelization had tossed in a comment that "Anakin hadn't known his wife was pregnant"...)
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Date: 2020-11-20 02:19 am (UTC)Instead, at the possible risk of being even more controversial, I also have to admit to some maudlin moods in the past week, thinking that some medical news might put us all "in between TESB and RotJ," with the risks still high but some possibility of future hope making our choices matter all the more. I don't want to imagine too much too soon, but if your Episode VI coverage runs for a while as well, it just might be things will be getting better when it reaches its conclusion...
Anyway, I am old enough to have "lived in between TESB and RotJ" myself, but I was young enough I don't recall speculating very much as to what could happen in the next movie. I might have distracted myself by reading scattered issues of the old Marvel Star Wars comic book. As much as they faced their own limitations on getting to move the story forward, they might have kept me from bothering to read the novel written in the 1990s that was supposed to be "the official in-between story," much less play its video game or listen to its "soundtrack album." (In between Attack of the Clones and Episode III, I think I'd settled into "not wanting to make my own theories out of the risk of latching on to them instead of the actual movie to come," although I was oddly energized at the first reports Anakin and Padme would have scenes together in the upcoming film, even given the RotJ novelization had tossed in a comment that "Anakin hadn't known his wife was pregnant"...)