Re: Friendly Darth?

At 09:47  15/05/02 -0500, Allan wrote:
>On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:41:33 -0500, "kevinbalentine"
><kevinbalentine@mail.ev1.net> wrote:
>
> >Well, there was Pricess Leia's homeworld ...
>
>That wasn't Vader. That was Grand Moff Tarkin/Peter Cushing.
>
>Vader did nothing to stop it. Now this could have been a sort of
"Coventry"
>style "better not save the innocents as it would blow my cover" kind of
a
>deal. I don't think George is capable of that kind of characterization,
>though. I think it's pretty clear that Vader is bad, until the 3rd... I
mean
>6th... movie, when he redeems himself (by killing someone).

One of the local Star Wars fiends recently told me that the first cut of

"Return Of The Jedi" had Luke failing and joining the Emperor (I suppose
he 
ran Dad through with his light sabre) but Lando does manage to blow up
the 
Death Star but doesn't get to escape in time. Hence the scene that did
make 
it into the film where Han gets all misty eyed about his ship before 
scooting off to Endor. Apparently Lucas changed his mind after viewing
the 
first cut, me I must admit I like the idea of Luke turning bad and then 
going up with the ship as I found this film to be a poor cousin to "The 
Empire Strikes Back".

Cheers

Derek

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