Alternate Return of the Jedi ending is grittier and more satisfying

by January 11, 2011 1871 Views
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I know I will offend a bunch of people when I say this, but the seeds for The Phantom Menace were planted in Return of the Jedi. Too cute, too happy – where was the hard edge that we saw in the earlier episodes? The short answer to that question is that it was sacrificed in order to maximize toy sales. Here’s YouTube user BenHallert’s vision of what might have happened if Lucas had decided to keep things a little more real.

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by NJ Sullivan - Jan 11, 2011

by NJ Sullivan - Jan 11, 2011

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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