Within the early Eighties, because the world was ready in breathless anticipation for Return of the Jedi, the third movie within the Star Wars trilogy, a number of questions danced within the heads of followers and a few of them — although comprehensible — are fairly humorous looking back.
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The Empire Strikes Again ended with fairly the reveal, as supervillain Darth Vader advised Luke Skywalker that he’s his father. It was additionally an amazing film, which solely made folks extra anxious for the conclusive movie. On the time, Return of the Jedi was really nonetheless known as Revenge of the Jedi, and was written about often a yr earlier than it was launched in theaters in the summertime of 1983, partly as a result of it began filming in 1982, and later that yr entered post-production.
With quite a lot of secrets and techniques revealed weeks earlier than the movie’s launch, one must return to the months main as much as it, and likewise to articles written in 1982 in regards to the movie. So, I took to the duty of going by way of extra newspapers on-line than anybody would advocate. A lot of the theories that critics wrote about, and that followers wrote in about, and that even some followers have been interviewed for, have been all pure hypothesis, and quite a lot of which can now trigger any fan of the Power to chuckle.
So, be at liberty to snort it up, fuzzball, as I proudly provide the 5 funniest fan theories for Return of the Jedi.
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia will find yourself collectively and have kids
Nobody can blame anybody for considering this on the time, however it’s fairly hilarious nonetheless. Why would anybody guess that Luke and Leia have been really siblings? Particularly contemplating their kiss in Empire, which makes one surprise why the characters themselves didn’t have extra of a creeped out response upon such a realization in Jedi.
Some followers precisely prompt that Han Solo would find yourself with Leia, as one of the written about questions heading into the movie was “Who will Princess Leia find yourself with?”
One sarcastic fan had a ball, suggesting that Han will find yourself with Leia, however be cursed for all times as a result of he married a princess. All of this hypothesis makes one notice that most individuals figured Solo survives being frozen in carbonite, as a result of Harrison Ford returned to the function.
Boba Fett will play main but mysterious function
This idea would’ve been correct, as a result of George Lucas has since revealed that Fett was speculated to be the primary villain of the movie. Followers have been excited to see what this villain would do, contemplating they received only a style of him within the earlier film.
Nevertheless, Lucas modified his thoughts drastically, and turned Fett right into a punchline burp for the Sarlacc pit.
Disney has revived the character, to followers’ pleasure, however it was principally to be a mob boss, making a few of these followers recommend he was higher of useless. Thus, we nonetheless haven’t acquired the story that the character deserves — as an alternative, we solely received a very cool iced tea drink named after him. (Boba Tea, anybody?)
Darth Vader was mendacity to Luke when he advised him he’s his father
A film usher who mentioned he watched Empire 63 occasions concluded that Vader was mendacity to Luke about being his father, and that it was a solution to get Luke on Vader’s aspect. He wasn’t alone. A big variety of folks, together with James Earl Jones who voiced Darth Vader, actually didn’t consider that Vader was telling the reality. It was such an iconic plot twist that it rattled followers.
It’s eye-opening to see how many individuals appear to have concluded the identical factor, maybe not wanting it to be true.
Anakin Skywalker is Luke Skywalker’s son
Though we all know now that Anakin Skywalker is the true title of Luke’s father, thus Darth Vader’s actual title, nobody had heard the title earlier than Return of the Jedi. Some folks don’t notice {that a} point out of Anakin was added to Empire through the re-released DVD variations, some twenty years later.
So, when the solid listing was launched, it grew to become an enormous deal to see that an actor named Sebastian Shaw was taking part in a personality named Anakin Skywalker. The funniest factor about this, apart from the truth that Shaw performs him for only one scene when Darth Vader has his helmet taken off, is that individuals appeared to invest each risk apart from Anakin being Vader. The commonest idea was that Anakin was Luke’s son. There have been some individuals who speculated that he was an uncle, however some did really consider Anakin was Luke’s father — simply not that he was additionally Vader.
Obi-Wan Kenobi isn’t actually useless
This one is posed extra as a query in a number of newspapers. It appears there was a thought that he was nonetheless alive, courtesy of a Jedi potential, and that in some way this may be revealed in Return of the Jedi. After all, nothing like that’s ever addressed, as a result of as many others had identified, Kenobi is clearly a ghost.
Nevertheless, I can’t assist however surprise if the idea was extra motivated by folks hoping that Kenobi would re-engage with Vader. It could’ve been nice for Obi-Wan to pop up through the Vader-Luke lightsaber duel and scare the Sith out of Darth. The look on Vader’s masks would’ve been priceless.
There are numerous different fan theories value mentioning, equivalent to ones many surrounding Han Solo’s destiny. Lots of people believed he was the “different” hope that Yoda spoke of and thus he had Jedi powers. Luke’s destiny was additionally extensively written about, clearly, with two well-liked theories merely being that he turns to the darkish aspect and one other that he dies on the finish.
I desire to return to that sarcastic man who theorized that C-3PO could be destroyed and bought for scraps.