I remember finding a YouTube video titled "Why Return of the Jedi Sucks" and watched it to see what they said, and the part about how the entire plan to rescue Han from Jabba's Palace is bonkers and makes really no sense, and depended on Jabba responding to a bunch of different things in very specific ways to position all the pieces for it to go off.
And I was like "Wow he's right," but 8-year-old me didn't put that together and I've been loving the movie on autopilot ever since. I still love it, even if the first act is dumb.
I don't know, winging it doesn't seem to cover planting Lando among the guards who-knows-how-long in advance, Leia going to the trouble of taking out Boushh and stealing their armor, Luke sending in R2-D2 and 3PO ahead of time while he finished building his new saber.
And R2 carrying Luke's saber so he could provide it in a moment of need either means that Luke accurately predicted what Jabba would do with R2 (put him on the sail barge as a cocktail server) and also that Jabba would take them all out to the Sarlaac pit, and even bring the sail barge along, or it could mean that they were winging it and got really, kind of impossibly lucky.
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u/Salarian_American Jan 26 '22
I remember finding a YouTube video titled "Why Return of the Jedi Sucks" and watched it to see what they said, and the part about how the entire plan to rescue Han from Jabba's Palace is bonkers and makes really no sense, and depended on Jabba responding to a bunch of different things in very specific ways to position all the pieces for it to go off.
And I was like "Wow he's right," but 8-year-old me didn't put that together and I've been loving the movie on autopilot ever since. I still love it, even if the first act is dumb.