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@@BecauseBecaBeBeca I'm only a few minutes in, but it seems nicely done. I've been waiting a long, loooong time for this..! xD And I don't much care about muted or blurry parts, I've watched the OT 300+ growing up so I'd say every scene is already thoroughly engraved into my brain. ;)
In less than 5 minutes into your video I noticed already that you are now a fully fledged Star Wars fan, by now, and react as a SW fan should react, which is very rewarding to me ! I don't like reactors who don't have any idea what the movie is about ! Congrats !
The MINUTE Vader turned to Palpatine, the entire theater I was in totally blew up, and they didn't stop clapping and screaming until the old bastard was gone.
i remember that! I really dont like the addition of Vader's "No!" because it takes away from the surprise by a beat of about 2 seconds. His "Silent Rebellion" spoke way louder when he simply turned left and lifted Palpatine over his head. As a kid, I imagined Vader MORE powerless than Luke: Vader had no hand, no lightsaber, and if Luke couldnt defend against the lightning, neither could Vader. It was a masterclass in a cinematic scene drama.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Is one of the best lines of the entire franchise, becasuse that statement is itself an absolute. It was a brilliant way of showing that even though Obi-Wan was fighting the good fight, the flaws and hypocrisies in his world view that had helped to create that situation were still present in him. And in this movie we see that even after he's dead, Obi-Wan still has that same flawed world view.
I'm so glad you caught the Vader theme on the harp when he dies. One of so many subtle and perfect details that contribute to making this such a powerful conclusion to the story.
1983 I was 8 years old. It was opening night for Return of the Jedi in Afton, Wyoming. where my family was vacationing. Leia was reviled to be Luke's twin sister and the theater went silent and my Mother fainted. I thought she had died, that information had just killed Yoda... and now it had killed my mother. I was terrified that I was now and orphan, and hundreds of miles from home.
It didn't seem to make the UA-cam cut but the space battle over Endor is truly one of the most impressive scenes ever made. That whole scene was filmed with practical effects, and almost no CGI (the only CG was the ring around the Death Star explosion) everything else was made with blue screens, physical models, and computer aided cameras that ran on a track. Each model in a scene would be filmed separately and then spliced together into the same shot. the cameras would ensure that each model was filmed at just the right speed and trajectory so that they looked to be flying in perfect formation despite being shot separately.
The ring around the death star explosion was only added in the special edition. It was not there originally. The only CGI in the original movie was the hologram of the death star orbiting endor in the mission briefing. And that was quite advanced for 1983. :-]
Luke is what Qui-Gon was. Hence why the name of the song that plays during the fight in episode 1 is called Duel of the Fates, because it's about the fate of Anakin.
@@kaizoisevil Hard to say. Dooku was doing things in secret for knows how long before the start of the clone wars. I have no reason to believe that Qui-Gon would have caught on before everyone else given how Dooku had masterfully fooled everyone for as long as he did. Yoda taught Dooku and would have known his apprentice really well and even he was also fooled. Also, Anakin was a slave living a rough life. After getting freed, he likely still would have been away from his mother when she was kidnapped and killed. Don't underestimate the impact of losing your only family like that on top of his previous hard life. The Jedi generally don't do "family". They take newborns from their parents early before they're able to form those tight familial bonds. When the issues do come up, they usually don't have the experience of knowing what family bonds really mean to people and are therefore not really qualified to help others handle that kind of loss. That's why Luke was able to get through to Vader and bring out Anakin where all the other Jedi failed. Anakin knew what family was. Luke also knew what family was after growing up on his uncle's farm. Luke succeeded by NOT being like any other Jedi IMO.
32:35 Yeah, she got kidnapped by Vader, imprisoned, and then tortured by him with a mind probe and who knows what else. He was complicit in the total annihilation of her home world right in front of her, one where she was given the choice between betraying the Alliance or Alderaan. Then Vader tortured her boyfriend and probably her as well, all for his own ends. She’s not gonna view Vader with the rose-coloured glasses that Luke does. Her father was Bail Organa. Not the half-machine madman that Anakin was.
Vader literally had nothing to do with the decision to destroy Alderaan. Tarkin was the commander of the Death Star and outranked everybody onboard including Vader. Tarkin destroyed Alderaan, either with Palpatine's permission, or on his direct orders.
@@davidcross4596 Exactly. I have no sympathy for him. Wife beater. Child murderer. Megalomaniac. Convinced the Jedi were evil. Even willing to kill his own son once he knew he had a daughter. They were smart enough to avoid bringing his Force Ghost into the sequels.
Most reactors seem to miss the significance of Luke looking at Vader’s electronic/mechanical stump. It goes back to Luke’s failure at the cave on Dagobah. Yoda had just been telling Luke that once he started down the dark path it would forever dominate his destiny. Luke felt the Dark Side in the cave and asked Yoda what was in there, to which he was told “Only what you bring with you.” But that didn’t mean just the physical, it also meant the mindset, the character, the emotions. Luke brought weapons for a fight, in spite of being warned that he wouldn’t need them. That readiness to battle rather than use wits or seek peaceful solutions was what helped manifest the force vision, but it showed that being Vader was Luke’s destiny if he didn’t choose the Light path. On the 2nd Death Star Luke loses his cool twice, once when his friends are in danger and once when Darth threatens to try to turn Leia instead. He starts to tap into the Dark side, driving Vader back with the dark ferocity of his attack. His original light clothing that changed to grey in Empire is now black, and he’s in serious danger of succumbing. “Your hate has made you powerful.” he hears from the cackling Emperor, revelling in the downfall of another Jedi. Luke looks at the stump of Vader, and his own mechanical hand. Luke has already become part machine like his father. It’s that recognition that he’s already got one foot on the path to evil. That shocks him out of his dark rage and he comes back to himself. He throws away his weapon, which, although it nearly costs him his life, is the one action that saves him. It’s possible that he’d never defeat Palpatine in battle (Yoda couldn’t, even with 800 years of mastery). His defenceless pleading slowly pulled Anakin back. Had Luke kept his saber and then had to battle Palpy, would Vader have turned? Probably not.
Yeah Lucas said Luke's clothing through the movies did represent his struggles with the Dark side, going from White to gray to black, BUT after Vader saves him from Palpatine part of his shirt comes undone and you see white on the inside showing how despite everything Luke always was still on the Light side underneath it all.
The ghost sequence at the end of the movie, the original movie before the prequel had the older actor next to yoga and Obi-Wan, but once they added in the frequence, they switched out the older actor for young man Anakin. They also added a few extra CGI things in some of your early movies
'I have so much respect for Luke's character' exactly and that is why people were so angry with the assassination of his character in the sequels. It throws away everything that Luke is.
This version of the movie has 4 people as Anakin/Vader - *James Earl Jones* as the iconic voice, *David Prowse* doing the physical acting, *Sebastian Shaw* when the mask is off at the end, and *Hayden Christensen* as Force Ghost Anakin. The original episode 6, before the remastering, had Shaw as the Force Ghost as well.
@@MarkLloyd72 Oh, shoot. That's right! Really takes a village to raise a great villain. Don't know why it skipped my mind, I'm pretty sure I would've remembered Anderson for fighting in episode 5. (Edit: meaning, had I made a similar comment about episode 5, I'm pretty sure I would've remembered to mention Anderson - not Prowse - for fight scenes.)
@@TheRawrnstuff No problem and if I'm honest with you I sometimes forget about Bob Anderson doing the fight scenes as well, I put it down to him having such a long and illustrious career working on so many amazing films.
When Luke attacks the Emperor with the saber, Vader blocks him not to protect the Emperor, but to protect Luke. Because at this point he didn´t want the same dark fate for his son.
This is something I've always known deep down, but never really consciously articulated to myself, and never put into words so perfectly. This also dovetails with my big giant comment in the main thread about Star Wars being a hero-myth not of dragonslaying, but of sacrificial heroism, which we understand less well today. I'm jealous that it took me like 2 pages to say this when it took you 2 lines.
Fun fact: the same guy who played Palpatine in the prequels also plays him in this movie (and the transmission in Episode 5). Ian McDiarmid was cast for the role in his thirties and then reprised it in the prequel trilogy. EDIT: further fun fact: The mechanics for the chair didn't really work, so whenever it turned, McDiarmid was carefully pushing it with his feet instead.
That's a change though, the hologram was originally portrayed by masked actress Marjorie Eaton and voice actor Clive Revill. After TPM they shot new footage with changed dialogue.
Lucas was a genius. Star Wars started off as a simple revenge story; Vader bad, Vader killed your dad, now go kill bad guy. But then Empire Strikes Back changed everything for Luke (and the audience), and Return of the Jedi came up with a brilliant and emotional ending.
Sorry but Lucas wasn't a genius. He created the original basic concepts which were all awful. Solo was some frog man etc etc. Other talented people took over and made it into what it became. He also argued against almost every single good scene in ESB. When George got control you got the horrendous prequels and special editions. The guy is a total hack.
Jedi is the weakest of the OF by far. The dialogue and acting were worse and of course it was the teddy bears that were the first brick on the path to Jar Jar.
5:24 It's a musical number. Even 'vile gangsters' like to party! 8:42 As you say 'Slave girl Leia' is a popular cosplay, she was the ultimate fantasy woman for a whole generation of fans. Those abs and as we see a moment later her great legs, WOW! 11:00 You really feel sorry for the Rancor creature keeper, whose pet has just been killed.
@@schnubbel76 They really aren't that prominent in Revenge of the Sith. They're kind of just there to get force slapped by Yoda when he goes to visit the Emperor. Pretty forgettable IMO.
I remember watching this in the theater back in 1983. The loudest cheer I ever heard in the movies when Anakin picked up the emperor and tossed him down the shaft.
@@QuayNemSorr Yeah, I freakin' HATE that stupid insert! This is why Lucas needs to be kept away from his creation. He keeps tinkering with it and screwing things up badly.
There's actually a book from Obi-Wan's point of view. It's in the Legends Canon now, but his Force ghost was actually in The emperor's throne room and he thought Luke for sure was going to be killed. He was himself surprised when Vader became Anakin again and killed the emperor. He even apologized to Anakin before he taught him how to become a force ghost
You're gonna get like 200 comments saying the same thing, but in the original version, Vader doesn't say "no" or cry out "NOOO" before he picks up the Emperor. He's completely silent, just looking from the Emperor, to Luke, back to the Emperor, then again to Luke who's crying "father, please help!", Vader shifts again to the Emperor, then a final time to Luke, with the only clue to the inner turmoil he's suffering being the slight tilt his head, becore coming to a decision in complete silence. And still while being electrocuted by the Emperor, who at this point would be going all out on the power setting, sensing his imminent doom - whereas Luke was screaming in agony when the Emperor was just torturing for sport moments earlier - Vader remains completely silent as he carries the Emperor several meters before throwing him down the shaft.
I prefer that over the "NOOO!" cry. Them adding that in subtracts from the scene. There's more impact with seeing Vader just stand there in silence while watching his son get hurt. There's more suspense not knowing if he's going to do anything before he does it.
1. Best guess is that Han was Jabba's "trophy" for about a year and a half before the rescue. 2. Vader discovered Leia as Luke's sister because he could feel it through Luke. Luke didn't know that until just before then. 3. Luke's light saber is green because he lost his old one along with his hand so they decided to make it green because it worked better in the desert background landscape. 4. Everybody is freaking out because Luke and Leia kissed mostly because she was trying to piss off Han. They didn't know they are related. 5. The "I love you. I know" was written into the script to get Leia the shot to say it to Han. 6. This was Warrick Davis'/Lead Ewok first acting gig. He was only 13. "Willow" is his lead with Val Kilmer and worth a first time/share. 7. Awesome camera work with the race through the forest. Nobody in their right mind would go that fast. 8. Carrie Fisher said in her biography that the most satisfying part in her Star Wars experience was choking out Jabba. 9. Jedi is plural. With Luke and Leia leading the way they can reestablish the Jedi back into the galaxy. 10. Ford wanted Han to die in the last episode. 11. IMVHO this is the best of the original 6 George Lucas Star Wars. After the first six he sold it to Disney, and everything changed. Sadly 12. RIP James Earl Jones😇and Carrie Fisher😇
Darth Vader needed the suit to live, and without the suit only his rage and anger could keep him alive. When he came back to the light, with the suit circuits broken by dark force lightnings, there wasn´t chance to survive.
I was 13 Years old in 1977 when I saw Star wars and 16 Years old in 1980 When i saw Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. I was 19 Years old in 1983 when I saw Episode VI Return of the Jedi in the Movie Theatre. Every one in the movie theatre was shocked and gasped when it was revealed that Luke's Twin Sister was Princess Leia. Everyone in the Movie Theatre cheered when Darth Vader turned on the Emperor. In the original Darth Vader does not yell No before turning on the Emperor. He just keeps looking back and forth silently before picking up the Emperor. The Force Ghost of Anakin was originally the older Actor who played Darth Vader. The younger version was added after the Prequels were released. Anakin Skywalker was the Jedi who returned. Luke hinted at it when he told the Emperor that he was a Jedi like his Father before him. I am glad I saw the originals before seeing the Prequels.
In the following movies and tv series, they even assassinated the **lightsaber,** making a torso stab survivable. That's like surviving a chainsaw to the chest. Since when is a chainsaw more lethal than **lightsaber.** Lumberjacks should be deadly, but not deadlier than Jedi.
The sequels are not the story George Lucas intended to tell. In fact, when Disney bought Star Wars from him, they actually rejected his story treatments for the sequels in favor of letting different directors make up the story of each film as they went along.
Vader did not blow up a planet. Tarkin was the commander of the Death Star when it fired on Alderaan, and he did so with the Emperor's permission. Both Tarkin and Palpatine outranked Vader in Episode IV.
Actually, both Vader and Tarkin were in separate chains of command. They both reported to the Emperor directly, but they merely worked with each other. But Tarkin could not give Vader any binding orders.
@@williamshelton4318 And if he had, Tarkin would just have raised his eyebrow at him and then proceed to give the firing order anyway. What's your point?
@williamshelton4318 I think you missed the part where he had absolutely no say in the matter. He had no say over Tarkin as long as they were both on the DS. And what was he supposed to object to Palpatine building the Death Star? He was cowed by Palpatine until literally the last 10 minutes of ROTJ
@@JM-nd9zf You are arguing as if Anakin was always just innocent all those years. As if he didn't follow the Emperor out of his own volition. As if he never was his apprentice because he himself wanted to be. As if he never killed anybody because he wanted to. As if he never wanted power and believed in dictatorship. As if he never actually agreed with what Palpatine did... How do you know that he didn't agree with Palpatine and Tarkin? It's not like Luke had brought out some goodness in him at that point. He didn't even know he had a son.
While you know it has been altered, one thing you might not realize is how much. Not only did they add in images of various celebrations across the galaxy after the Emperor's fall, they changed the music of the final seen on Endor, where the ghosts show up. It was far more upbeat and exhilirating rather than the slower tempo-ed music this movie had. Also, until the prequels came out and this movie was altered, Anakin's ghost was shown to be Sebastian Shaw (the man that wore the Vader costume throughout the original movies). Finally, before the remastering, Vader didn't scream the iconic "NOOO" when grabbing the Emperor and did it silently. The act became known as Vader's "silent rebellion" for many years afterwards.
Incorrect about Sebastian Shaw. It was David Prowse who wore the suit in all three films. Sebastian Shaw was only in the face reveal and the force ghost.
55:10 the deliberate destruction of Luke's character is one of the biggest reasons many people dislike the Sequels. It also makes Anakin's redemption redundant. He was the 'chosen one' to fulfil the prophecy of destroying the Sith & bringing balance to the force. Now that doesn't happen until Rey Palpatine finally kills her grandfather 😏 The Sequels weren't made with a consistent planned story, and never respected what George Lucas had previously written which is why he only considers the Star Wars story to be between Episodes 1-6.
39:13 The main reveal that is spoiled by watching the prequels first is Palpatine’s Force Lightning. Yoda warns Luke not to underestimate the powers of the Emperor, but up until the Lightning we never got anything but inferences that he was a Force user. He is Vader’s master, but so was Tarkin (holding Vader’s leash). He could sense Luke or foresaw the future, but we’d never seen the Force manifested in such a way. It was a shock for us that Luke was still in mortal danger from this frail-looking, withered, old prune. Watching the prequels first you’re quite aware of this danger.
I honestly felt the same watching the Prequels! I had no idea he had that power and wasn’t really afraid of him until Annakin takes his side and the lightning came out of nowhere and freaked me out especially as his face like morphed from this innocent helpless guy to this monster. I feel like that moment was very similar in the prequels if you hadn’t seen the originals. Cause the entire time you’re also led to believe that he might actually be a good guy. I feel like it’s almost better in some ways. You find yourself confused a bit like Annakin at first. Like this guy is supposed to be on our side, but then he’s not.
@ I think that could’ve had more impact in the Palpatine/Windu battle but they already showed that Dooku could do it. That made it a more mundane power. It was either a generic Force power or a Dark Side power (for those of us playing Star Wars games for years it was clear that it is a Dark Side power), which means even Maul could’ve wheeled it out if he wanted. Truth be told, Maul should’ve quit toying with Obi when he was in the shaft and just blasted him with Force Lightning. That was a blunder on Maul’s behalf. It would’ve been better for those watching things chronologically if they made Force Lightning just Palpy’s power.
@sean---the-other-one It would have been cool if they showed in anything featuring Palpatine that he directly studied ancient Sith like Vitiate, Revan, Nihilus and Malgus (canon or not) but Force lightning made these Kotor Sith cooler then they already would have been and Dooku as well for that matter
@@BecauseBecaBeBeca Hi Beca - The pre-Disney Star Wars films (1-6) are ••PACKED•• with one example after another of “things ARE NOT what they seem.” - Senator Palpatine IS NOT the kindly old man he appears to be. When he is ‘promoted’ to Chancellor, he is also not the weak, ineffective leader he appears to be in THAT role, either. - Han is not the heartless, cynical smuggler that he appears to be in most of Episode IV. - Yoda is not the “silly little gremlin-clown by the side of the road” that he presents himself as to Luke in Episode V (when the world met Yoda for the first time, in 1980). - R2 is NOT the quirky little astro droid that neither the Empire, nor most of the Rebels, take all that seriously: He is a lion-hearted revolutionary and heroic soldier, who saves everyone, time and time again. He is also THE ONE character who survives in physical form, to appear in episodes 1-6, and who did not have his memory erased (as C-3PO did, and so remembers EVERYTHING.) - Finally, Darth Vader is not the ‘bad guy’ of the Star Wars films, that he’s framed as, when he’s introduced in Episode IV, and continually framed as, in most of episodes V and VI. The films intentionally deceive us: the character wears black clothing, is accompanied by sinister music (the Darth Vader ‘theme’) and the wise Jedi such as Obi-Wan and Yoda frame him as an evil entity to be defeated. In reality, Anakin/Vader is a Messianic figure, pre-selected by The Force (who arranged for his miraculous ‘immaculate conception’ from the beginning) for the mission of taking down Palpatine and all of the Sith - even though the price would be that he’d have to sacrifice EVERYTHING to do it - his friends, family, all four limbs, the remainder of his body (all burned), and his status as a good person. ••ALL•• of Anakin's entire life, was about moving him into position as the Emperor's apprentice, so that, as Vader, he could deliver the fatal blow to the two remaining Sith Lords (the Emperor and his Vader self) at the end of Episode VI. (No one knew this except The Force, which has a Will of its own, and was acting behind the scenes, guiding events.)
I really really liked your reaction. Your love for the source material came through, and it made me feel a little young again, watching it for the first time.
If you haven't yet, you should ABSOLUTELY consider watching The Clone Wars. If you thought you loved the characters from these movies already, that show fills in every detail you didn't know you needed and it makes you love them more. And on top of that, it'll introduce you to more characters you've never seen before, who you'll end up loving just as much. Seriously, consider it. It's worth every second of the journey. As a side note, if you do consider watching the show, be aware that the episodes were released in an order that's not chronological at all, and it's very confusing. Whole story arcs are separated between seasons, where, for example, an arc begins in season 2, has its middle episode in season 1, and has its end in The Clone Wars movie (which was the first Clone Wars thing released, basically as a primer for the show). So yeah, most UA-cam reactors watch the show in chronological order, using a list found on the official Star Wars website. It makes for a much better watching experience.
That, and Luke is a new kind of Jedi, one that embraces emotions and attachments, Palpatine failed to realize that, he assumed wrongly that Luke wouldn’t be so different from the prequel era Jedi.
@@jmwilliamsart not really, the reason anakin was corrupted by sidious was due to anakin low guard with palpaltine, remember anakin spend alot of alone time with palpatine and paly treated him and acted like a father fiqure which allow paly to influence him. luke on the otherhand viewed hima s the final boss, someone not to be trusted so he easily resisted him. despite that paly is a master manipulator so even luke wouldnt last long with his resistance.
32:13 Kissing squarely on the lips within blood relatives wasn't as big a deal back then in the 80s, not taboo at all in context. Depending on the ethnic group or even particular family, it wasn't that unusual, most commonly with moms kissing their kids on the lips. Both twins felt the connection and could have felt each other was something special without feeling romantic about it, but perhaps confused. That kiss from Leia wasn't even sincere as she did it only to make Han jealous. Not to mention we're dealing with an alien culture from longer ago and farther away than the 80s.
I think everyone overreacts to Luke and Leia's relationship. You're absolutely right. They probably felt a connection, but were confused. Especially Leia. Because she totally had feelings for Han. That's why they both show signs of relief, when they find out. It explains the feelings for each other that they always had.
@Mindflux_Zubzub Sorry, but your abusive remark really made you sound ignorant. There are many cultures outside of the United States that this is common. Obviously many more than you were aware of. It’s important to remember that the interpretation of such gestures often depends on the broader cultural context, and what is normal in one culture might feel unusual in another. These practices often reflect cultural attitudes toward physical affection and family bonds. Just relaying so you don't label Texas people and really look foolish with the remark. Have a stellar night. Peace 🎉
@@jpgcne It's not abuse, it's a jpke, chill (or perhaps you're Texan?! lol). In which cultures is this common? You won't find this in Europe, or Asia...so, come on - where?
55:05 thats why a lot of fans of star wars dont like or want 7, 8, 9 as cannon. Thats not luke, the guys who makes that movies didnt watch the originals or didnt care about them. lukes hope and light, can bring back vader (who kills several jedis, people, and do despicable things) but not his nephew? who didnt kill anyone yet? are you kidding me?
What disturbs me even more is that Luke practically set himself up for it in the most stupid way. At that point he had been training Jedi for around 25 years, if you include Leia. So he is hardly a beginner. And according to the backstory he had been in contact to the Spirits of Yoda, who had been training Jedi for centuries, Obi Wan and Anakin the whole time, who could and should have given him advice. But between all that he does not come up with a better idea to sneak into Ben´s room at night and scan his mind without permission? That violation of trust alone could have pushed his nephew further to the dark side. And then he takes his lightsaber with him when he did that? He (should) have known that doing this could cause force visions and affect his own mind. But he did nothing to keep snap reactions like this from happening?
oh plz other view it differently, things happen to can change a person but if u bother to see evertyrhing u would know he isnt that depressed for the whole movie until ur brain blocked that part out
@@jps6071 100% The Luke We Know, is hope personified. When confronted with "a domain of evil," well... "in it, must Luke go." He'll abandon his training to help his friends. He'll fly a suicide mission to do the right thing. By Jedi, he's mature enough to find the good buried deep in evil.
Thanks for saying this so I don't feel compelled to. That any part of Luke would consider killing a nephew and apprentice for what he might possibly do, when he absolutely refuses to kill his father despite killing millions throughout his life, and supporting a regime that killed billions maybe trillions, even ignoring what he might possibly continue to do, especially to his friends and sister, is so antithetical to his character and growth that it makes zero sense. Then watch the most impactful characters from the OG get killed off one by one, when instead they could have made great long term mentors, was a lazy writing device and completely ignored the attachments, memories and feelings of longtime fans.
Never too late to become a deeper Star Wars fan. I’m glad you plan on watching Kenobi because while it isn’t perfect it more deeply explains Obi-WAN’s giving up on Anakin (From a certain point of view)
Well, that and that Anakin slaughtered most of the Jedi, including younglings! Many, including Beca here, seem to forget that! Would you really still have hope for someone who literally murdered all your friends?!
Watch Rogue One next. Trust me. After episodes 4, 5, and 6 it is absolutely phenomenal! Prequel to episode 4. Great reactions to the series by the way. Powerful emotions. "Star Wars" has always been so much more than just mere movies to it's fans! The affect it has on people is truly indescribable and life altering.
Indeed. Back in Episode 4, Vader himself said, "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force." In Vader's mind, there was never a need to have such a weapon. My guess is Vader would have preferred Thrawn's method of maintaining power by continuing to upgrade and expand the imperial navy with new ships. But, Vader's master and his friend Tarkin both like big boom so big boom they went with instead. lol
44:58 - Note that when Vader threatens to turn Leia, it's Palpatine's theme that plays. This is the same trick he used to convince Anakin that he needed to turn to save his wife. And it continues until Luke sees Vader's arm and realizes that he's about to take his father's place.
You should definitely check out the animated Star Wars series like The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, and Rebels. They’re all extremely solid additions to the Star Wars universe. The Clone Wars (2008 - 2020) dives deep into the prequel era, exploring the events between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It provides a comprehensive look at The Clone Wars, a conflict that was only briefly seen in the movies. The series features the full cast of characters from the films, giving much-needed development to Jedi and side characters who didn’t get the spotlight in the movies. It also delves into Anakin's fall to the dark side, showcasing his evolving relationship with Obi-Wan and other key characters. The Bad Batch (2021-2024) takes place immediately after The Clone Wars, focusing on the early transition from the Republic to the Empire. The series explores key events during this period, such as the gradual phasing out of Clone Troopers in favor of the Stormtrooper program, which relies on regular recruits. The show itself follows an elite squad of clones who resist Order 66 thanks to their genetic "enhancements" that make them different from standard clones. The series was created following fan enthusiasm for these characters, who debuted in Season 7 of The Clone Wars, which returned in 2020 for a final season with an amazing final story arc that takes place during Revenge of the Sith. Though you can easily dive into Bad Batch without knowing anything about Clone Wars. Rebels (2014 - 2018) is set 14 years after Revenge of the Sith & Clone Wars, exploring the five years leading up to A New Hope, highlighting the rise of the Rebellion and the fight against the Empire. It’s more accessible than The Clone Wars due to its lack of filler episodes and tighter focus. The series also ties into The Clone Wars, resolving some storylines left unfinished after its cancellation. Additionally, Rebels features appearances from iconic characters and bridges gaps between the prequels and the original trilogy, while also connecting to up in coming Star Wars movies such as Rogue One (2016) at the time.
Anakin Skywalker was the only one chosen by the gods to bring balance to the force, and he did it. Great reaction, if you liked Star Wars, you could react to Obi Wan Kenobi, the series is not long at all and after that, also watch Ahsoka the series. so you will know who Anakin really is. greetings.
That scrolling shot of their duel, after Vader suggests that Leia can be turned to the dark side if Luke resists. A great example of music elevating the emotion of a scene. I believe that part of the score is called “A Jedi’s Fury”.
To answer your question in the beginning about the dynamic between Palpatine and Vader: there is a Sith guideline for the Rule of Two Sith (where there is only supposed to be one Master and one Apprentice at all times), and it's as follows: it is the duty of the Master to always show strength, never weakness, and the duty of the Apprentice to always show loyalty, never betrayal (so while the Apprentice often works in the shadows to try and overthrow the Master, they can't be caught). IF the Apprentice ever gets caught being disloyal, it is the duty to the Master to destroy the Apprentice and replace them. If the Master ever shows weakness, it is the duty of the Apprentice to immediately strike and overthrow them. This "policy" is a large part of how the Sith got stronger and stronger for generations, over 1000 years, leading to Palpatine, someone so strong the Jedi had no chance. When Vader lost on Mustafar to Obi-Wan and lost his limbs, Palpatine was extremely disappointed, because he knew Vader would always be limited from reaching his potential. From that point on, Palpatine searched for a new Apprentice, but never found one stronger than Vader, so he kinda just stuck with Vader until Luke was discovered. Vader always wanted to overthrow Palpatine because he felt so betrayed after the events of Episode 3, and how Padme died anyway. But because Palpatine was always so much stronger than Vader, Vader never succeeded in beating him. Thus when Luke showed up, Vader saw that as his only chance to overthrow Palpatine, by combining his strength with Luke's. The irony is, their whole dynamic was basically the inverse of the Sith guideline: Palpatine wanted to replace Vader because Vader wasn't strong enough, and Vader wanted to overthrow Palpatine because he felt betrayed for Padme dying, and for all the friends and clones he lost in the war that Palpatine orchestrated. But because Palpatine never showed weakness, Vader couldn't succeed, and because Vader never really made an outright attempt to overthrow Palpatine, Palpatine didn't outright destroy him, even though they both KNEW each other's feelings. Then, when Palpatine was basically high on rage and hatred while he was electrocuting Luke, it finally gave Vader the chance he needed, with Palpatine's back turned, his guard lowered, and his focus on Luke. There is some lore that Palpatine foresaw all that, and let it play out to see if Vader would indeed betray him, knowing he himself had power over death through ancient Sith sorcery and could always come back if he was betrayed, but the chance of either Vader remaining loyal or finally being rid of Vader through Vader's betrayal was enough to make Palpatine let it play out. Hence, the end of Episode 6. Hope that helped. Also, despite all this, they WERE indeed still friends, in a weird way, due to how they had known each other since Vader was a boy and Palpatine had been like a father to him, but their bitterness and malice towards each other really overshadows their friendship throughout the decades. It's a fascinating dynamic between the two of them, in my opinion.
@18:08. The question and answer put in this film was done so because many many people did not believe Vader was his father from 19080 Empire. So that mini interaction was put in to lay that to rest. 3 years in took for people to get their answer
20:35 I think you understood the most important thing here. The old Jedi were so deep in their indoctrination, while Luke understood the broader view of things. It's okay to have attachments, to feel love and other human feelings, but to let grief and hate take control of you is the true path to the dark side. That's why I love Luke.
It's so cool they brought the same guy back to play the emperor in the prequels. He was actually relatively young when rotj came out, so he was the perfect age for the prequels
20:22 If you ever watch the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, you will get an idea, why Obi-Wan thinks about Vader the way he does, not believing there is any good left in him.
@@Mindflux_Zubzub But he still tried to talk some sense into Anakin during their battle. And it is not until the Kenobi Show that he fully realizes that "his friend is truly dead".
@@schnubbel76 He didn't try to talk sense in to him at all, or offer any sort of olive branch - he was calling him out and highlighting where he was wrong. He went to Mustafar to kill him ("I will do what I must") - he thought Anakin wouldn't survive his injuries at the end of the battle, leaving him for dead. In Kenobi, he still assumed Anakin was dead, so that line about being "truly dead" is ironic and figurative.
I only realized this just now, but when Vader blocks Luke's lightsaber attack on the Emperor, he is not actually defending Palpatine. He is protecting Luke by stopping Luke from killing the Emperor and going to the dark side.
One thing about Yoda, he often talks about being passive when referring to the light side of the force, and this also comes through in his speech pattern because he always talks in, what we would call in English grammar, passive voice.
In this episode you had my most favorite line of all the movies I ever watched in my entire life - “I am a Jedi, like my father before me” … I wish (maybe you too) you would have chosen to watch all episodes in their release order … Salutations from Romania …
Yes. That's the line that made me smile as a kid and makes me smile AND cry as a middle-aged man. Hero's dont have to win to be a hero, it's a matter of heart. It's the line that makes him The Hero.
Been looking forward to seeing this reaction and you didn't disappoint, love how invested you got with the vader redemption story so much emotion😢 , also enjoyed your little rant about obi-wan / the jedi dealing in absolutes and how you have had people do that in real life 😂. Anyway great video as always and look forward to your next one 😊
One reason that The Phantom Menace is so underrated is that George made it mirror ROTJ in many ways, thus completing the circle between the two trilogies. Both movies start with a failed negotiation which results in the captive having to be rescued from a palace. The podrace and the speeder-bike chase both happen at the midpoint of each movie. The Gungans and the Ewoks play virtually the same role. Both movies end with a climactic three-pronged battle. In TPM, the droid control ships in space have to be destroyed to defeat the droid army on the ground. In ROTJ the mission on the ground is to destroy the shield generator so the fleet in space can be destroyed. Both lightsaber battles result in a Sith being thrown into an endless chasm and a dying Jedi being cradled at it's edge. Both Qui-Gon and Anakin/Vader are burned on a funeral pyre. The Emperor's theme song is even a slowed down sinister version of the celebration theme at the end of TPM.
@@QuayNemSorr No, The Force Awakens didn't parallel the other movies - it straight up stole the plot of A New Hope and just added a sprinkling of Return of the Jedi. The parallels between TPM and ROTJ are a lot more subtle, to the point that you definitely couldn't consider them the same movie.
@@tommcewan7936 Actually he created a pretty intricate ring composition with two very different trilogies that subtly mirror each other in reverse, something nobody else has even attempted, but nice try!
@@tommcewan7936 Also, repeating story elements so that they "rhyme" but having them produce different outcomes (Anakin and Luke share a very similar path but make very different choices) isn't being a one-trick pony, it's effective storytelling.
10:40 George Lucas: "Even the most terrifying monster must have a story behind it. The keeper loved the rancor, and the rancor probably loved its keeper."
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I’ve always found it fun that the Ewok who first encounters Leia, growls a word that sounds like “Yautja”. Almost accusing her of it. And that word is the species name of the intergalactic trophy hunters in the Predator films. Would be a great cross over to have Predators and Xenomorphs in the Star Wars universe!
39.00 personally I think the best way to watch them is 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, and the end it all in 6. After the Vader/father reveal, you go back watching Anakin's backstory, see Palpatine's rise etc, and then it's so satisfying watching 6. Seeing Palpatine fall, Vader's "redemption", etc. It all comes full circle in a nice way.
The one thing I think about when it comes to how Obi-Wan sees Anakin is their fight in the Obi-Wan series. If I remember correctly, Obi-Wan says something like "then my friend really is dead" after Vader says he (Vader) killed Anakin. The pain on Obi-Wan's face during that fight, I think, gives him room to cope with that trauma the way he does with Luke.
Some other notably replaced scenes that were better in the original: Jabba's palace: ua-cam.com/video/2w25pcTIFlQ/v-deo.htmlsi=Kpd4k9IrL0zyi9-2 Yub Nub (the original ending song on Endor with the Ewoks): ua-cam.com/video/np6vAuS0KNs/v-deo.htmlsi=FNqkZn-oqYr27Rah
In Star Wars Lore, The Rule of Two was established for the Sith, where there are only two Sith active at any time, one master and one apprentice... The master to hold the power and the apprentice to chase it... The cycle of the Sith is perpetuated on the expectation that the Apprentice will eventually grow powerful enough to supplant and kill his master, then get a new apprentice, starting the cycle over again... So Vader wants Luke to join him so they can kill Palpatine and continue the Sith cycle.
Thanks, Beca! 🎆 When you rewatch the sequels you'll see that 'Luke' only momentarily thought of killing 'Kylo'... but that was enough to send his nephew into a spiral. 'Luke' felt shame over that brief lapse in EPISODE VIII. But it all lead to a beautiful sacrifice that inspired a galaxy in EPISODE IX. 🔸 You're going to love the OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) series!!! SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018) happens just before it on the timeline, so I would watch that before... but whatever you decide should be fine. 😊
Excellent reaction. I am so glad I got to be around for all three movies. I was 6 for the first one in 1977; 9 for the second in 1980 and 12 for the third in 1983. Empire is still my favorite of the three. I love the more somber version of Darth Vader's theme when Anakin dies and the music when Luke burns his body. I felt happy and sad at the same time.
43:40 In the old Star Wars novels and comic books that take place years after Return of the Jedi that are labeled as "Legends", Luke rebuilds the Jedi Order, and the major thing he does different in his Jedi Order is that he approves of attachments to friends and families, unlike the pre-Clone Wars Jedi Order, and he gets married to Mara Jade (who was something similar to an Inquisitor to the Galactic Empire known as The Emperor's Hand) and they have a son named Ben (who is a few years younger than Han and Leia's son and daughter Jacen and Jaina), and in one Legends novel, (I forget which one), Luke learns of his mother Padme and what happened to her in Revenge of the Sith.
There have been tremendous advancements in technology, special effects, choreography... But I maintain that the elements here still make the greatest lightsaber duel in the franchise. The characters, score, the emotions, the storytelling in the fight itself, Luke absolutely flipping his shit and seeing Vader on his back foot for the first time... there's been some cool stuff since this... but I don't think it's been rivaled. Cinematic perfection.
There is an article published in Time magazine on May 19, 1980 where George Lucas discussed his plans for the Star Wars saga, including his intention to create a trilogy of trilogies. That was the plan from the very beginning.
Princess Leia Organa, is wise, discerning, and kindhearted, qualities that came from her mother. She is also passionate, fearless, and forthright. Gifts from her father. Both were exceptional people who bore an exceptional daughter.
Luke went darkside on Vader and only stopped when he saw Vaders wrist circuits. This made him think of his failure in the cave when it showed his anger will make him just like Vader. Qui Gon was the true Jedi, he did whatever the force led him to do. Even when the council disagreed. He is the first and only Jedi to find immortality as part of the living force, and during the clone wars he shows himself to Yoda and teaches it to him, and Yoda teaches it to Obi Wan.
52:45 how to spot whether it's been remastered: Greedo shooting (first, or in fact at all) and Jabba being included in ANH, more wampa screen-time in ESB, a sarlacc beak and the Force ghost of Anakin in RotJ. 55:11 yeah that was one of the bigger let-downs, having Luke turn up so out-of-character...
The reason Obi-Wan is so set on destroying Vader as a solution is because he himself has tried to find the good in him and Vader proved to him that Anakin Skywalker is no more. The fate of the galaxy is at stake right now at this point in the story and this may be the last chance they get. Obi-Wan has more cause to believe Vader being killed is what is best for the galaxy, based on his knowledge and prior dealings with him. That's what makes the ending to this movie so brilliant, because the unthinkable happened. Also to take into consideration, the only knowledge we have of Vader is what is presented in these 3 original films. To the audience, Vader is the big baddie and must be killed. Only now with the prequels do we understand Vader and his history.
Younger people make a huge deal about the kissing. Back when there was a lot more kissing amongst friends and family and society as a whole is a lot more reserved about public displays of affection than it was in the 70's and 80's.
34:14 Han Solo is actually 36 during this time in the universe, 12 years older than Luke and Leia who are 23, so Han is a lot more mature due to him being so much older and "wiser" lol... In the Sequels, Kylo Ren is actually 10 years older than Rey (30-20), so like father like son, I guess lol
You are absolutely right about Obi Wan changing his tune about absolutes. But you have to remember Obi Wan saw everything Vader did ... he murder little jedi children, he force choked his own pregnant wife, and led the inquisitors across the galaxy to murder every last jedi. But even then, Obi Wan still tried to talk him back to the light, and even when Anakin tried murdering him ... Obi Wan could not bring himself to finish off his brother, and when he caught fire he couldn't even watch to ensure he was dead. So ya, to Obi Wan, Anakin is unreachable ... he had been family to Anakin and a Father to him since Anakin was like 9yrs old. Luke only fought him once and learned its his dad ... how could Luke do what he couldn't?
You have to remember it was Yoda that gave Obi-Wan this perspective that Anakin Skywalker was forever gone. It was the only way that Obi-Wan could accept the fact that he was to potentially destroy Anakin. And although Anakin was not completely gone, his Darth Vader identity wasn't really him. Yoda explained to Luke in the Empire Strikes Back that when you turn down the dark path, it's like you're enslaved, almost as if you're possessed by an evil spirit. That's why when Obi-Wan told Luke his father was dead, it wasn't that far from the truth. Anakin Skywalker was rescued in the end.
He isn't looking at space. He is using the force to manipulate events from afar while looking into the future ... he says it several times " everything is proceeding as i have foreseen". Vader says it when he tells Luke the Emperor has foreseen that you can destroy him
Southern California is desert, but here in the San Francisco Bay Area and points north is a forest! The forest scenes in the movie were recorded on private land adjacent to the National and State Parks that protect the redwoods in Northern California. They were only allowed to record there because it was NOT part of the park, and it was clearcut soon after, so it doesn't look like the movie anymore. But, the speeder sequence was recorded in a place you can still go visit, and it looks the same, because it was part of the park at the time and still is! Chetham Grove, part of Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park. 🙂
“Right” and “wrong” don’t exist in the “react” genre of UA-cam. Different individuals reacting to unforgettable scenes and memorable moments in media and entertainment is fully and entirely subjective with no exception. Except, at 5:23, where your words and sentiment is exactly the right answer 😄 I swear, George really did a number with his CGI “enhanced” RotJ rerelease. Between this scene and Darth screaming “Nooooo!” like a big dumb robotic idiot before tossing Palpatine, I can no longer unsee the a$$clown that’s been living in George’s rectum since the 90s feeding him new ideas via “human centipede method”
At 52:50- Did they add him??? 😂😂 No they predicated what Anakin would look like back in 1983 (when Hayden Christensen was only 2 years old) and added him to the ending, ironically Hayden would be cast as Anakin/Darth Vader in 2002 so they were 100% correct, they must have had a crystal ball or something 😂😅😂😅
My generation is so lucky that we got to experience Star Wars, like no other generation of viewers ever will. Everything was new. Everything was a surprise. There were no remasters of the original, to make them fit. There were no spoilers in every piece of media.
You NEED to see Rogue One, it leads directly into Episode 4, and tells the story of how the rebellion got the death star plans, It always makes me cry.
Hi everyone! I hope you enjoy the video. I had to re-edit this one 23 times due to really intense copyright restrictions on this one. So, if you noticed a lot of parts that have been muted or blurred, that's why. I still tried to capture the biggest points of my reaction. Sometimes, for channel members. I release an unedited "watch with me" where you must provide your own copy of the film but then you sync up and watch with me. If that's something any of you'd be interested in, let me know and I will post for all channel members including my lowest tier which is $2 (normally it's for the tier up).Thanks again for your patience and welcome to the countdown to CHRISTMAS :)
I'm sorry to hear how many iterations this one took you, but I appreciate all your hard work and persistence ❤
@@joeyreynoso5356thank you! Here’s to hoping it doesn’t get taken down 🎄🙌🏻
Can’t do Patreon for paid stuff.
@@BecauseBecaBeBeca I'm only a few minutes in, but it seems nicely done. I've been waiting a long, loooong time for this..! xD And I don't much care about muted or blurry parts, I've watched the OT 300+ growing up so I'd say every scene is already thoroughly engraved into my brain. ;)
In less than 5 minutes into your video I noticed already that you are now a fully fledged Star Wars fan, by now, and react as a SW fan should react, which is very rewarding to me !
I don't like reactors who don't have any idea what the movie is about !
Congrats !
The MINUTE Vader turned to Palpatine, the entire theater I was in totally blew up, and they didn't stop clapping and screaming until the old bastard was gone.
Greatest moment in Star Wars history.
i remember that! I really dont like the addition of Vader's "No!" because it takes away from the surprise by a beat of about 2 seconds. His "Silent Rebellion" spoke way louder when he simply turned left and lifted Palpatine over his head. As a kid, I imagined Vader MORE powerless than Luke: Vader had no hand, no lightsaber, and if Luke couldnt defend against the lightning, neither could Vader. It was a masterclass in a cinematic scene drama.
@@slchance8839 Yeah I didn't like that addition either. It was so much more powerful without it.
@@dewey70 also it's been described as seemingly mocking the Nooo! at the end of RotS.
@@slchance8839yup. Every single change of the special editions made the movies worse. Every single change.
Luke’s final fight is such a narrative master class. His physical victory over Vader represents his spiritual defeat to the emperor.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Is one of the best lines of the entire franchise, becasuse that statement is itself an absolute. It was a brilliant way of showing that even though Obi-Wan was fighting the good fight, the flaws and hypocrisies in his world view that had helped to create that situation were still present in him. And in this movie we see that even after he's dead, Obi-Wan still has that same flawed world view.
I'm so glad you caught the Vader theme on the harp when he dies. One of so many subtle and perfect details that contribute to making this such a powerful conclusion to the story.
35:26 Such a nice father son moment, "Oh, you built this because you lost your other one when I cut off your hand? Good job son" 👏
1983 I was 8 years old. It was opening night for Return of the Jedi in Afton, Wyoming. where my family was vacationing. Leia was reviled to be Luke's twin sister and the theater went silent and my Mother fainted. I thought she had died, that information had just killed Yoda... and now it had killed my mother.
I was terrified that I was now and orphan, and hundreds of miles from home.
The Emperor really needs a TV. This looks like the best entertainment he's seen in a long time.😀
It didn't seem to make the UA-cam cut but the space battle over Endor is truly one of the most impressive scenes ever made. That whole scene was filmed with practical effects, and almost no CGI (the only CG was the ring around the Death Star explosion) everything else was made with blue screens, physical models, and computer aided cameras that ran on a track. Each model in a scene would be filmed separately and then spliced together into the same shot. the cameras would ensure that each model was filmed at just the right speed and trajectory so that they looked to be flying in perfect formation despite being shot separately.
Don't forget the sneaker they put in the space battle.
The ring around the death star explosion was only added in the special edition. It was not there originally. The only CGI in the original movie was the hologram of the death star orbiting endor in the mission briefing. And that was quite advanced for 1983. :-]
Even Mark Hamill said when he was shooting the sequels that he had to think of Luke as a completely different character than the one he played before.
I don’t even count them as canon. This was the ending. This is Luke Skywalker not Disney’s.
Luke is what Qui-Gon was. Hence why the name of the song that plays during the fight in episode 1 is called Duel of the Fates, because it's about the fate of Anakin.
Yup. If Qui-Gon lived, he could have stopped Dooku and Anakin from turning.
@@kaizoisevil Hard to say. Dooku was doing things in secret for knows how long before the start of the clone wars. I have no reason to believe that Qui-Gon would have caught on before everyone else given how Dooku had masterfully fooled everyone for as long as he did. Yoda taught Dooku and would have known his apprentice really well and even he was also fooled.
Also, Anakin was a slave living a rough life. After getting freed, he likely still would have been away from his mother when she was kidnapped and killed. Don't underestimate the impact of losing your only family like that on top of his previous hard life. The Jedi generally don't do "family". They take newborns from their parents early before they're able to form those tight familial bonds. When the issues do come up, they usually don't have the experience of knowing what family bonds really mean to people and are therefore not really qualified to help others handle that kind of loss.
That's why Luke was able to get through to Vader and bring out Anakin where all the other Jedi failed. Anakin knew what family was. Luke also knew what family was after growing up on his uncle's farm. Luke succeeded by NOT being like any other Jedi IMO.
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Yeah, she got kidnapped by Vader, imprisoned, and then tortured by him with a mind probe and who knows what else. He was complicit in the total annihilation of her home world right in front of her, one where she was given the choice between betraying the Alliance or Alderaan.
Then Vader tortured her boyfriend and probably her as well, all for his own ends.
She’s not gonna view Vader with the rose-coloured glasses that Luke does. Her father was Bail Organa. Not the half-machine madman that Anakin was.
Vader literally had nothing to do with the decision to destroy Alderaan. Tarkin was the commander of the Death Star and outranked everybody onboard including Vader. Tarkin destroyed Alderaan, either with Palpatine's permission, or on his direct orders.
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That’s why I said complicit.
Complicit - “Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime”
Vader is a mass murderer
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Exactly.
I have no sympathy for him.
Wife beater. Child murderer. Megalomaniac. Convinced the Jedi were evil. Even willing to kill his own son once he knew he had a daughter.
They were smart enough to avoid bringing his Force Ghost into the sequels.
@@sean---the-other-one To be fair, the Jedi were evil. Just less so than the Sith.
Most reactors seem to miss the significance of Luke looking at Vader’s electronic/mechanical stump.
It goes back to Luke’s failure at the cave on Dagobah. Yoda had just been telling Luke that once he started down the dark path it would forever dominate his destiny. Luke felt the Dark Side in the cave and asked Yoda what was in there, to which he was told “Only what you bring with you.” But that didn’t mean just the physical, it also meant the mindset, the character, the emotions.
Luke brought weapons for a fight, in spite of being warned that he wouldn’t need them.
That readiness to battle rather than use wits or seek peaceful solutions was what helped manifest the force vision, but it showed that being Vader was Luke’s destiny if he didn’t choose the Light path.
On the 2nd Death Star Luke loses his cool twice, once when his friends are in danger and once when Darth threatens to try to turn Leia instead.
He starts to tap into the Dark side, driving Vader back with the dark ferocity of his attack. His original light clothing that changed to grey in Empire is now black, and he’s in serious danger of succumbing.
“Your hate has made you powerful.” he hears from the cackling Emperor, revelling in the downfall of another Jedi.
Luke looks at the stump of Vader, and his own mechanical hand. Luke has already become part machine like his father. It’s that recognition that he’s already got one foot on the path to evil.
That shocks him out of his dark rage and he comes back to himself.
He throws away his weapon, which, although it nearly costs him his life, is the one action that saves him. It’s possible that he’d never defeat Palpatine in battle (Yoda couldn’t, even with 800 years of mastery). His defenceless pleading slowly pulled Anakin back.
Had Luke kept his saber and then had to battle Palpy, would Vader have turned? Probably not.
Yeah Lucas said Luke's clothing through the movies did represent his struggles with the Dark side, going from White to gray to black, BUT after Vader saves him from Palpatine part of his shirt comes undone and you see white on the inside showing how despite everything Luke always was still on the Light side underneath it all.
The ghost sequence at the end of the movie, the original movie before the prequel had the older actor next to yoga and Obi-Wan, but once they added in the frequence, they switched out the older actor for young man Anakin. They also added a few extra CGI things in some of your early movies
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I love yoga
'I have so much respect for Luke's character' exactly and that is why people were so angry with the assassination of his character in the sequels. It throws away everything that Luke is.
This version of the movie has 4 people as Anakin/Vader - *James Earl Jones* as the iconic voice, *David Prowse* doing the physical acting, *Sebastian Shaw* when the mask is off at the end, and *Hayden Christensen* as Force Ghost Anakin. The original episode 6, before the remastering, had Shaw as the Force Ghost as well.
It's five as Bob Anderson did the fight scenes.
@@MarkLloyd72 Oh, shoot. That's right! Really takes a village to raise a great villain.
Don't know why it skipped my mind, I'm pretty sure I would've remembered Anderson for fighting in episode 5.
(Edit: meaning, had I made a similar comment about episode 5, I'm pretty sure I would've remembered to mention Anderson - not Prowse - for fight scenes.)
@@TheRawrnstuff No problem and if I'm honest with you I sometimes forget about Bob Anderson doing the fight scenes as well, I put it down to him having such a long and illustrious career working on so many amazing films.
27:04 I don't know why, but "do you guys have supper together?" really got me 😂😂😂
they're both old, they totally suppers
When Luke attacks the Emperor with the saber, Vader blocks him not to protect the Emperor, but to protect Luke. Because at this point he didn´t want the same dark fate for his son.
This is something I've always known deep down, but never really consciously articulated to myself, and never put into words so perfectly.
This also dovetails with my big giant comment in the main thread about Star Wars being a hero-myth not of dragonslaying, but of sacrificial heroism, which we understand less well today.
I'm jealous that it took me like 2 pages to say this when it took you 2 lines.
Fun fact: the same guy who played Palpatine in the prequels also plays him in this movie (and the transmission in Episode 5). Ian McDiarmid was cast for the role in his thirties and then reprised it in the prequel trilogy.
EDIT: further fun fact: The mechanics for the chair didn't really work, so whenever it turned, McDiarmid was carefully pushing it with his feet instead.
That's a change though, the hologram was originally portrayed by masked actress Marjorie Eaton and voice actor Clive Revill. After TPM they shot new footage with changed dialogue.
Lucas was a genius. Star Wars started off as a simple revenge story; Vader bad, Vader killed your dad, now go kill bad guy. But then Empire Strikes Back changed everything for Luke (and the audience), and Return of the Jedi came up with a brilliant and emotional ending.
Child progression. Learning and "Hero's Journey', but yeah 😅
Sorry but Lucas wasn't a genius. He created the original basic concepts which were all awful. Solo was some frog man etc etc. Other talented people took over and made it into what it became.
He also argued against almost every single good scene in ESB.
When George got control you got the horrendous prequels and special editions. The guy is a total hack.
Jedi is the weakest of the OF by far. The dialogue and acting were worse and of course it was the teddy bears that were the first brick on the path to Jar Jar.
@@ToothlessDragon536Wrong.
@@michaelc9915Still great though.
5:24 It's a musical number. Even 'vile gangsters' like to party!
8:42 As you say 'Slave girl Leia' is a popular cosplay, she was the ultimate fantasy woman for a whole generation of fans. Those abs and as we see a moment later her great legs, WOW!
11:00 You really feel sorry for the Rancor creature keeper, whose pet has just been killed.
Best one
Making the last part about trying to turn and redeem the villain was a great idea and says a lot abut Luke
The warriors in the red armour when Emperor Palpatine arrives are his personal royal throne room guards.
I thought she watched the prequels?! Should know them from Revenge of the sith.
@@schnubbel76it's ready to forgot details here and there
@@briansview2886 What does that mean "it is ready to forgot"?
@@schnubbel76 perhaps they meant to write "readily forgotten"?
@@schnubbel76 They really aren't that prominent in Revenge of the Sith. They're kind of just there to get force slapped by Yoda when he goes to visit the Emperor. Pretty forgettable IMO.
Anakins childhood was too messed up for him to be a healthy adult. He became darth vader because he wanted control over everything.
I remember watching this in the theater back in 1983. The loudest cheer I ever heard in the movies when Anakin picked up the emperor and tossed him down the shaft.
Without the cursed "Noooo" crap!!
@@QuayNemSorr Yeah, I freakin' HATE that stupid insert! This is why Lucas needs to be kept away from his creation. He keeps tinkering with it and screwing things up badly.
There's actually a book from Obi-Wan's point of view. It's in the Legends Canon now, but his Force ghost was actually in The emperor's throne room and he thought Luke for sure was going to be killed. He was himself surprised when Vader became Anakin again and killed the emperor. He even apologized to Anakin before he taught him how to become a force ghost
You're gonna get like 200 comments saying the same thing, but in the original version, Vader doesn't say "no" or cry out "NOOO" before he picks up the Emperor. He's completely silent, just looking from the Emperor, to Luke, back to the Emperor, then again to Luke who's crying "father, please help!", Vader shifts again to the Emperor, then a final time to Luke, with the only clue to the inner turmoil he's suffering being the slight tilt his head, becore coming to a decision in complete silence. And still while being electrocuted by the Emperor, who at this point would be going all out on the power setting, sensing his imminent doom - whereas Luke was screaming in agony when the Emperor was just torturing for sport moments earlier - Vader remains completely silent as he carries the Emperor several meters before throwing him down the shaft.
I prefer that over the "NOOO!" cry. Them adding that in subtracts from the scene. There's more impact with seeing Vader just stand there in silence while watching his son get hurt. There's more suspense not knowing if he's going to do anything before he does it.
1. Best guess is that Han was Jabba's "trophy" for about a year and a half before the rescue.
2. Vader discovered Leia as Luke's sister because he could feel it through Luke.
Luke didn't know that until just before then.
3. Luke's light saber is green because he lost his old one along with his hand so they decided to make it green because it worked better in the desert background landscape.
4. Everybody is freaking out because Luke and Leia kissed mostly because she was trying to piss off Han. They didn't know they are related.
5. The "I love you. I know" was written into the script to get Leia the shot to say it to Han.
6. This was Warrick Davis'/Lead Ewok first acting gig. He was only 13.
"Willow" is his lead with Val Kilmer and worth a first time/share.
7. Awesome camera work with the race through the forest. Nobody in their right mind would go that fast.
8. Carrie Fisher said in her biography that the most satisfying part in her Star Wars experience was choking out Jabba.
9. Jedi is plural. With Luke and Leia leading the way they can reestablish the Jedi back into the galaxy.
10. Ford wanted Han to die in the last episode.
11. IMVHO this is the best of the original 6 George Lucas Star Wars. After the first six he sold it to Disney, and everything changed. Sadly
12. RIP James Earl Jones😇and Carrie Fisher😇
Darth Vader needed the suit to live, and without the suit only his rage and anger could keep him alive. When he came back to the light, with the suit circuits broken by dark force lightnings, there wasn´t chance to survive.
I was 13 Years old in 1977 when I saw Star wars and 16 Years old in 1980 When i saw Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. I was 19 Years old in 1983 when I saw Episode VI Return of the Jedi in the Movie Theatre.
Every one in the movie theatre was shocked and gasped when it was revealed that Luke's Twin Sister was Princess Leia. Everyone in the Movie Theatre cheered when Darth Vader turned on the Emperor. In the original Darth Vader does not yell No before turning on the Emperor. He just keeps looking back and forth silently before picking up the Emperor. The Force Ghost of Anakin was originally the older Actor who played Darth Vader. The younger version was added after the Prequels were released.
Anakin Skywalker was the Jedi who returned. Luke hinted at it when he told the Emperor that he was a Jedi like his Father before him.
I am glad I saw the originals before seeing the Prequels.
In the following movies and tv series, they even assassinated the **lightsaber,** making a torso stab survivable. That's like surviving a chainsaw to the chest. Since when is a chainsaw more lethal than **lightsaber.** Lumberjacks should be deadly, but not deadlier than Jedi.
I hope you can see why so many OG Star Wars fans (myself included) were infuriated by Luke’s character assassination in the sequels now. 🙂
The sequels are not the story George Lucas intended to tell. In fact, when Disney bought Star Wars from him, they actually rejected his story treatments for the sequels in favor of letting different directors make up the story of each film as they went along.
Disney's Star Wars: Crap! crap! megacrap!
Disney: Fine, I'll make my own Star Wars, with blackjack and hookers!
Vader did not blow up a planet. Tarkin was the commander of the Death Star when it fired on Alderaan, and he did so with the Emperor's permission. Both Tarkin and Palpatine outranked Vader in Episode IV.
Actually, both Vader and Tarkin were in separate chains of command. They both reported to the Emperor directly, but they merely worked with each other. But Tarkin could not give Vader any binding orders.
Vader watched the thing get built for 19 years and apparently didn't object. He was in the room when they blew up Alderaan and didn't object.
@@williamshelton4318 And if he had, Tarkin would just have raised his eyebrow at him and then proceed to give the firing order anyway. What's your point?
@williamshelton4318 I think you missed the part where he had absolutely no say in the matter. He had no say over Tarkin as long as they were both on the DS. And what was he supposed to object to Palpatine building the Death Star? He was cowed by Palpatine until literally the last 10 minutes of ROTJ
@@JM-nd9zf You are arguing as if Anakin was always just innocent all those years. As if he didn't follow the Emperor out of his own volition. As if he never was his apprentice because he himself wanted to be. As if he never killed anybody because he wanted to. As if he never wanted power and believed in dictatorship. As if he never actually agreed with what Palpatine did...
How do you know that he didn't agree with Palpatine and Tarkin? It's not like Luke had brought out some goodness in him at that point. He didn't even know he had a son.
You get a really good view of Yoda's blanket in this movie,...... His blanket is Qui-Gon's robe/cloak.....
While you know it has been altered, one thing you might not realize is how much. Not only did they add in images of various celebrations across the galaxy after the Emperor's fall, they changed the music of the final seen on Endor, where the ghosts show up. It was far more upbeat and exhilirating rather than the slower tempo-ed music this movie had. Also, until the prequels came out and this movie was altered, Anakin's ghost was shown to be Sebastian Shaw (the man that wore the Vader costume throughout the original movies). Finally, before the remastering, Vader didn't scream the iconic "NOOO" when grabbing the Emperor and did it silently. The act became known as Vader's "silent rebellion" for many years afterwards.
Incorrect about Sebastian Shaw. It was David Prowse who wore the suit in all three films. Sebastian Shaw was only in the face reveal and the force ghost.
"they" = George Lucas, who was the original writer and director.
55:10 the deliberate destruction of Luke's character is one of the biggest reasons many people dislike the Sequels. It also makes Anakin's redemption redundant. He was the 'chosen one' to fulfil the prophecy of destroying the Sith & bringing balance to the force. Now that doesn't happen until Rey Palpatine finally kills her grandfather 😏 The Sequels weren't made with a consistent planned story, and never respected what George Lucas had previously written which is why he only considers the Star Wars story to be between Episodes 1-6.
100% i was looking for this comment.
Bingo.
39:13
The main reveal that is spoiled by watching the prequels first is Palpatine’s Force Lightning.
Yoda warns Luke not to underestimate the powers of the Emperor, but up until the Lightning we never got anything but inferences that he was a Force user.
He is Vader’s master, but so was Tarkin (holding Vader’s leash). He could sense Luke or foresaw the future, but we’d never seen the Force manifested in such a way.
It was a shock for us that Luke was still in mortal danger from this frail-looking, withered, old prune.
Watching the prequels first you’re quite aware of this danger.
I honestly felt the same watching the Prequels! I had no idea he had that power and wasn’t really afraid of him until Annakin takes his side and the lightning came out of nowhere and freaked me out especially as his face like morphed from this innocent helpless guy to this monster. I feel like that moment was very similar in the prequels if you hadn’t seen the originals. Cause the entire time you’re also led to believe that he might actually be a good guy. I feel like it’s almost better in some ways. You find yourself confused a bit like Annakin at first. Like this guy is supposed to be on our side, but then he’s not.
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I think that could’ve had more impact in the Palpatine/Windu battle but they already showed that Dooku could do it.
That made it a more mundane power. It was either a generic Force power or a Dark Side power (for those of us playing Star Wars games for years it was clear that it is a Dark Side power), which means even Maul could’ve wheeled it out if he wanted. Truth be told, Maul should’ve quit toying with Obi when he was in the shaft and just blasted him with Force Lightning. That was a blunder on Maul’s behalf.
It would’ve been better for those watching things chronologically if they made Force Lightning just Palpy’s power.
@sean---the-other-one It would have been cool if they showed in anything featuring Palpatine that he directly studied ancient Sith like Vitiate, Revan, Nihilus and Malgus (canon or not) but Force lightning made these Kotor Sith cooler then they already would have been and Dooku as well for that matter
@@BecauseBecaBeBeca Hi Beca -
The pre-Disney Star Wars films (1-6) are ••PACKED•• with one example after another of “things ARE NOT what they seem.”
- Senator Palpatine IS NOT the kindly old man he appears to be. When he is ‘promoted’ to Chancellor, he is also not the weak, ineffective leader he appears to be in THAT role, either.
- Han is not the heartless, cynical smuggler that he appears to be in most of Episode IV.
- Yoda is not the “silly little gremlin-clown by the side of the road” that he presents himself as to Luke in Episode V (when the world met Yoda for the first time, in 1980).
- R2 is NOT the quirky little astro droid that neither the Empire, nor most of the Rebels, take all that seriously: He is a lion-hearted revolutionary and heroic soldier, who saves everyone, time and time again. He is also THE ONE character who survives in physical form, to appear in episodes 1-6, and who did not have his memory erased (as C-3PO did, and so remembers EVERYTHING.)
- Finally, Darth Vader is not the ‘bad guy’ of the Star Wars films, that he’s framed as, when he’s introduced in Episode IV, and continually framed as, in most of episodes V and VI. The films intentionally deceive us: the character wears black clothing, is accompanied by sinister music (the Darth Vader ‘theme’) and the wise Jedi such as Obi-Wan and Yoda frame him as an evil entity to be defeated. In reality, Anakin/Vader is a Messianic figure, pre-selected by The Force (who arranged for his miraculous ‘immaculate conception’ from the beginning) for the mission of taking down Palpatine and all of the Sith - even though the price would be that he’d have to sacrifice EVERYTHING to do it - his friends, family, all four limbs, the remainder of his body (all burned), and his status as a good person.
••ALL•• of Anakin's entire life, was about moving him into position as the Emperor's apprentice, so that, as Vader, he could deliver the fatal blow to the two remaining Sith Lords (the Emperor and his Vader self) at the end of Episode VI. (No one knew this except The Force, which has a Will of its own, and was acting behind the scenes, guiding events.)
Not sure if Rogue 1 is included as one of the "sequels" you've already seen, but if not, you should really watch that here when you can.
I really really liked your reaction. Your love for the source material came through, and it made me feel a little young again, watching it for the first time.
If you haven't yet, you should ABSOLUTELY consider watching The Clone Wars. If you thought you loved the characters from these movies already, that show fills in every detail you didn't know you needed and it makes you love them more. And on top of that, it'll introduce you to more characters you've never seen before, who you'll end up loving just as much.
Seriously, consider it. It's worth every second of the journey.
As a side note, if you do consider watching the show, be aware that the episodes were released in an order that's not chronological at all, and it's very confusing. Whole story arcs are separated between seasons, where, for example, an arc begins in season 2, has its middle episode in season 1, and has its end in The Clone Wars movie (which was the first Clone Wars thing released, basically as a primer for the show). So yeah, most UA-cam reactors watch the show in chronological order, using a list found on the official Star Wars website. It makes for a much better watching experience.
Palpatine had more than ten years to corrupt Anakin. He's been talking to Luke for two minutes. Is it that much of a surprise Luke is resisting?
That, and Luke is a new kind of Jedi, one that embraces emotions and attachments, Palpatine failed to realize that, he assumed wrongly that Luke wouldn’t be so different from the prequel era Jedi.
@@jmwilliamsart not really, the reason anakin was corrupted by sidious was due to anakin low guard with palpaltine, remember anakin spend alot of alone time with palpatine and paly treated him and acted like a father fiqure which allow paly to influence him. luke on the otherhand viewed hima s the final boss, someone not to be trusted so he easily resisted him. despite that paly is a master manipulator so even luke wouldnt last long with his resistance.
32:13 Kissing squarely on the lips within blood relatives wasn't as big a deal back then in the 80s, not taboo at all in context. Depending on the ethnic group or even particular family, it wasn't that unusual, most commonly with moms kissing their kids on the lips. Both twins felt the connection and could have felt each other was something special without feeling romantic about it, but perhaps confused. That kiss from Leia wasn't even sincere as she did it only to make Han jealous. Not to mention we're dealing with an alien culture from longer ago and farther away than the 80s.
I think everyone overreacts to Luke and Leia's relationship. You're absolutely right. They probably felt a connection, but were confused. Especially Leia. Because she totally had feelings for Han. That's why they both show signs of relief, when they find out. It explains the feelings for each other that they always had.
Kissing relatives on the lips wasn't a big deal? WTAF? Are you from Texas or something?
@Mindflux_Zubzub Sorry, but your abusive remark really made you sound ignorant. There are many cultures outside of the United States that this is common. Obviously many more than you were aware of. It’s important to remember that the interpretation of such gestures often depends on the broader cultural context, and what is normal in one culture might feel unusual in another. These practices often reflect cultural attitudes toward physical affection and family bonds. Just relaying so you don't label Texas people and really look foolish with the remark. Have a stellar night. Peace 🎉
@@jpgcne It's not abuse, it's a jpke, chill (or perhaps you're Texan?! lol). In which cultures is this common? You won't find this in Europe, or Asia...so, come on - where?
55:05 thats why a lot of fans of star wars dont like or want 7, 8, 9 as cannon. Thats not luke, the guys who makes that movies didnt watch the originals or didnt care about them. lukes hope and light, can bring back vader (who kills several jedis, people, and do despicable things) but not his nephew? who didnt kill anyone yet? are you kidding me?
What disturbs me even more is that Luke practically set himself up for it in the most stupid way. At that point he had been training Jedi for around 25 years, if you include Leia. So he is hardly a beginner.
And according to the backstory he had been in contact to the Spirits of Yoda, who had been training Jedi for centuries, Obi Wan and Anakin the whole time, who could and should have given him advice.
But between all that he does not come up with a better idea to sneak into Ben´s room at night and scan his mind without permission? That violation of trust alone could have pushed his nephew further to the dark side.
And then he takes his lightsaber with him when he did that? He (should) have known that doing this could cause force visions and affect his own mind. But he did nothing to keep snap reactions like this from happening?
oh plz other view it differently, things happen to can change a person but if u bother to see evertyrhing u would know he isnt that depressed for the whole movie until ur brain blocked that part out
@@jps6071 100% The Luke We Know, is hope personified. When confronted with "a domain of evil," well... "in it, must Luke go." He'll abandon his training to help his friends. He'll fly a suicide mission to do the right thing. By Jedi, he's mature enough to find the good buried deep in evil.
Thanks for saying this so I don't feel compelled to. That any part of Luke would consider killing a nephew and apprentice for what he might possibly do, when he absolutely refuses to kill his father despite killing millions throughout his life, and supporting a regime that killed billions maybe trillions, even ignoring what he might possibly continue to do, especially to his friends and sister, is so antithetical to his character and growth that it makes zero sense.
Then watch the most impactful characters from the OG get killed off one by one, when instead they could have made great long term mentors, was a lazy writing device and completely ignored the attachments, memories and feelings of longtime fans.
Never too late to become a deeper Star Wars fan. I’m glad you plan on watching Kenobi because while it isn’t perfect it more deeply explains Obi-WAN’s giving up on Anakin (From a certain point of view)
Well, that and that Anakin slaughtered most of the Jedi, including younglings! Many, including Beca here, seem to forget that! Would you really still have hope for someone who literally murdered all your friends?!
Watch Rogue One next. Trust me. After episodes 4, 5, and 6 it is absolutely phenomenal! Prequel to episode 4. Great reactions to the series by the way. Powerful emotions. "Star Wars" has always been so much more than just mere movies to it's fans! The affect it has on people is truly indescribable and life altering.
48:30 So many people misremember this, Vader didn't blow up any planets. Tarkin did.
Indeed. Back in Episode 4, Vader himself said, "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."
In Vader's mind, there was never a need to have such a weapon. My guess is Vader would have preferred Thrawn's method of maintaining power by continuing to upgrade and expand the imperial navy with new ships. But, Vader's master and his friend Tarkin both like big boom so big boom they went with instead. lol
44:58 - Note that when Vader threatens to turn Leia, it's Palpatine's theme that plays. This is the same trick he used to convince Anakin that he needed to turn to save his wife. And it continues until Luke sees Vader's arm and realizes that he's about to take his father's place.
You should definitely check out the animated Star Wars series like The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, and Rebels. They’re all extremely solid additions to the Star Wars universe.
The Clone Wars (2008 - 2020) dives deep into the prequel era, exploring the events between Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It provides a comprehensive look at The Clone Wars, a conflict that was only briefly seen in the movies. The series features the full cast of characters from the films, giving much-needed development to Jedi and side characters who didn’t get the spotlight in the movies. It also delves into Anakin's fall to the dark side, showcasing his evolving relationship with Obi-Wan and other key characters.
The Bad Batch (2021-2024) takes place immediately after The Clone Wars, focusing on the early transition from the Republic to the Empire. The series explores key events during this period, such as the gradual phasing out of Clone Troopers in favor of the Stormtrooper program, which relies on regular recruits. The show itself follows an elite squad of clones who resist Order 66 thanks to their genetic "enhancements" that make them different from standard clones. The series was created following fan enthusiasm for these characters, who debuted in Season 7 of The Clone Wars, which returned in 2020 for a final season with an amazing final story arc that takes place during Revenge of the Sith. Though you can easily dive into Bad Batch without knowing anything about Clone Wars.
Rebels (2014 - 2018) is set 14 years after Revenge of the Sith & Clone Wars, exploring the five years leading up to A New Hope, highlighting the rise of the Rebellion and the fight against the Empire. It’s more accessible than The Clone Wars due to its lack of filler episodes and tighter focus. The series also ties into The Clone Wars, resolving some storylines left unfinished after its cancellation. Additionally, Rebels features appearances from iconic characters and bridges gaps between the prequels and the original trilogy, while also connecting to up in coming Star Wars movies such as Rogue One (2016) at the time.
I love that grey streak in your hair. It’s really cute
Anakin Skywalker was the only one chosen by the gods to bring balance to the force, and he did it.
Great reaction, if you liked Star Wars, you could react to Obi Wan Kenobi, the series is not long at all and after that, also watch Ahsoka the series. so you will know who Anakin really is. greetings.
That scrolling shot of their duel, after Vader suggests that Leia can be turned to the dark side if Luke resists. A great example of music elevating the emotion of a scene. I believe that part of the score is called “A Jedi’s Fury”.
The Emperor it´s not short at all. But Darth Vader, fully armored and with his boots and helmet on, he stood 2.03 m, or around 6'7" tall.
"Oh, that'd Bobba Fett!" - Yes, that WAS Boba Fett!
To answer your question in the beginning about the dynamic between Palpatine and Vader: there is a Sith guideline for the Rule of Two Sith (where there is only supposed to be one Master and one Apprentice at all times), and it's as follows: it is the duty of the Master to always show strength, never weakness, and the duty of the Apprentice to always show loyalty, never betrayal (so while the Apprentice often works in the shadows to try and overthrow the Master, they can't be caught). IF the Apprentice ever gets caught being disloyal, it is the duty to the Master to destroy the Apprentice and replace them. If the Master ever shows weakness, it is the duty of the Apprentice to immediately strike and overthrow them. This "policy" is a large part of how the Sith got stronger and stronger for generations, over 1000 years, leading to Palpatine, someone so strong the Jedi had no chance.
When Vader lost on Mustafar to Obi-Wan and lost his limbs, Palpatine was extremely disappointed, because he knew Vader would always be limited from reaching his potential. From that point on, Palpatine searched for a new Apprentice, but never found one stronger than Vader, so he kinda just stuck with Vader until Luke was discovered.
Vader always wanted to overthrow Palpatine because he felt so betrayed after the events of Episode 3, and how Padme died anyway. But because Palpatine was always so much stronger than Vader, Vader never succeeded in beating him. Thus when Luke showed up, Vader saw that as his only chance to overthrow Palpatine, by combining his strength with Luke's.
The irony is, their whole dynamic was basically the inverse of the Sith guideline: Palpatine wanted to replace Vader because Vader wasn't strong enough, and Vader wanted to overthrow Palpatine because he felt betrayed for Padme dying, and for all the friends and clones he lost in the war that Palpatine orchestrated. But because Palpatine never showed weakness, Vader couldn't succeed, and because Vader never really made an outright attempt to overthrow Palpatine, Palpatine didn't outright destroy him, even though they both KNEW each other's feelings.
Then, when Palpatine was basically high on rage and hatred while he was electrocuting Luke, it finally gave Vader the chance he needed, with Palpatine's back turned, his guard lowered, and his focus on Luke. There is some lore that Palpatine foresaw all that, and let it play out to see if Vader would indeed betray him, knowing he himself had power over death through ancient Sith sorcery and could always come back if he was betrayed, but the chance of either Vader remaining loyal or finally being rid of Vader through Vader's betrayal was enough to make Palpatine let it play out. Hence, the end of Episode 6.
Hope that helped. Also, despite all this, they WERE indeed still friends, in a weird way, due to how they had known each other since Vader was a boy and Palpatine had been like a father to him, but their bitterness and malice towards each other really overshadows their friendship throughout the decades. It's a fascinating dynamic between the two of them, in my opinion.
@18:08. The question and answer put in this film was done so because many many people did not believe Vader was his father from 19080 Empire. So that mini interaction was put in to lay that to rest. 3 years in took for people to get their answer
20:35 I think you understood the most important thing here. The old Jedi were so deep in their indoctrination, while Luke understood the broader view of things. It's okay to have attachments, to feel love and other human feelings, but to let grief and hate take control of you is the true path to the dark side. That's why I love Luke.
It's so cool they brought the same guy back to play the emperor in the prequels. He was actually relatively young when rotj came out, so he was the perfect age for the prequels
20:22 If you ever watch the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, you will get an idea, why Obi-Wan thinks about Vader the way he does, not believing there is any good left in him.
You don't need to watch Kenobi for that - it's implicit from Episode III when Anakin kills most of the Jedi and younglings!
@@Mindflux_Zubzub But he still tried to talk some sense into Anakin during their battle. And it is not until the Kenobi Show that he fully realizes that "his friend is truly dead".
@@schnubbel76 He didn't try to talk sense in to him at all, or offer any sort of olive branch - he was calling him out and highlighting where he was wrong. He went to Mustafar to kill him ("I will do what I must") - he thought Anakin wouldn't survive his injuries at the end of the battle, leaving him for dead. In Kenobi, he still assumed Anakin was dead, so that line about being "truly dead" is ironic and figurative.
@@Mindflux_Zubzub Ok whatever you say....
44:00 Luke: "I have the High Ground."
Vader: "Not this shit again."
I only realized this just now, but when Vader blocks Luke's lightsaber attack on the Emperor, he is not actually defending Palpatine. He is protecting Luke by stopping Luke from killing the Emperor and going to the dark side.
One thing about Yoda, he often talks about being passive when referring to the light side of the force, and this also comes through in his speech pattern because he always talks in, what we would call in English grammar, passive voice.
In this episode you had my most favorite line of all the movies I ever watched in my entire life - “I am a Jedi, like my father before me” …
I wish (maybe you too) you would have chosen to watch all episodes in their release order …
Salutations from Romania …
Yes. That's the line that made me smile as a kid and makes me smile AND cry as a middle-aged man. Hero's dont have to win to be a hero, it's a matter of heart. It's the line that makes him The Hero.
the Ewoks are super adorable, like child-sized teddy bears. plus they have the cutest war cries when they attacked the storm troopers
Been looking forward to seeing this reaction and you didn't disappoint, love how invested you got with the vader redemption story so much emotion😢 , also enjoyed your little rant about obi-wan / the jedi dealing in absolutes and how you have had people do that in real life 😂. Anyway great video as always and look forward to your next one 😊
One reason that The Phantom Menace is so underrated is that George made it mirror ROTJ in many ways, thus completing the circle between the two trilogies. Both movies start with a failed negotiation which results in the captive having to be rescued from a palace. The podrace and the speeder-bike chase both happen at the midpoint of each movie. The Gungans and the Ewoks play virtually the same role. Both movies end with a climactic three-pronged battle. In TPM, the droid control ships in space have to be destroyed to defeat the droid army on the ground. In ROTJ the mission on the ground is to destroy the shield generator so the fleet in space can be destroyed. Both lightsaber battles result in a Sith being thrown into an endless chasm and a dying Jedi being cradled at it's edge. Both Qui-Gon and Anakin/Vader are burned on a funeral pyre. The Emperor's theme song is even a slowed down sinister version of the celebration theme at the end of TPM.
And then they did the exact same thing with Force Awakens, only even worse.
@@QuayNemSorr No, The Force Awakens didn't parallel the other movies - it straight up stole the plot of A New Hope and just added a sprinkling of Return of the Jedi. The parallels between TPM and ROTJ are a lot more subtle, to the point that you definitely couldn't consider them the same movie.
That's a very round-about way of saying Lucas has become a one-trick pony.
@@tommcewan7936 Actually he created a pretty intricate ring composition with two very different trilogies that subtly mirror each other in reverse, something nobody else has even attempted, but nice try!
@@tommcewan7936 Also, repeating story elements so that they "rhyme" but having them produce different outcomes (Anakin and Luke share a very similar path but make very different choices) isn't being a one-trick pony, it's effective storytelling.
episodes 7-9 are disney not lucas
10:40 George Lucas: "Even the most terrifying monster must have a story behind it. The keeper loved the rancor, and the rancor probably loved its keeper."
HI. It's a pleasure meeting you because Becca. Enjoy Star Wars films episode VI, Return of the Jedi. This one is a winner 🏆😀. The force will be with you. Always ☄️🌠🌌
I’ve always found it fun that the Ewok who first encounters Leia, growls a word that sounds like “Yautja”. Almost accusing her of it.
And that word is the species name of the intergalactic trophy hunters in the Predator films. Would be a great cross over to have Predators and Xenomorphs in the Star Wars universe!
39.00 personally I think the best way to watch them is 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, and the end it all in 6. After the Vader/father reveal, you go back watching Anakin's backstory, see Palpatine's rise etc, and then it's so satisfying watching 6. Seeing Palpatine fall, Vader's "redemption", etc. It all comes full circle in a nice way.
The one thing I think about when it comes to how Obi-Wan sees Anakin is their fight in the Obi-Wan series. If I remember correctly, Obi-Wan says something like "then my friend really is dead" after Vader says he (Vader) killed Anakin. The pain on Obi-Wan's face during that fight, I think, gives him room to cope with that trauma the way he does with Luke.
I loveeee how well David Prowse sells those small body language cues to let you in on what Vader is thinking
Some other notably replaced scenes that were better in the original:
Jabba's palace: ua-cam.com/video/2w25pcTIFlQ/v-deo.htmlsi=Kpd4k9IrL0zyi9-2
Yub Nub (the original ending song on Endor with the Ewoks): ua-cam.com/video/np6vAuS0KNs/v-deo.htmlsi=FNqkZn-oqYr27Rah
In Star Wars Lore, The Rule of Two was established for the Sith, where there are only two Sith active at any time, one master and one apprentice... The master to hold the power and the apprentice to chase it... The cycle of the Sith is perpetuated on the expectation that the Apprentice will eventually grow powerful enough to supplant and kill his master, then get a new apprentice, starting the cycle over again... So Vader wants Luke to join him so they can kill Palpatine and continue the Sith cycle.
Thanks, Beca! 🎆 When you rewatch the sequels you'll see that 'Luke' only momentarily thought of killing 'Kylo'... but that was enough to send his nephew into a spiral. 'Luke' felt shame over that brief lapse in EPISODE VIII. But it all lead to a beautiful sacrifice that inspired a galaxy in EPISODE IX. 🔸 You're going to love the OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) series!!! SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018) happens just before it on the timeline, so I would watch that before... but whatever you decide should be fine. 😊
Excellent reaction. I am so glad I got to be around for all three movies. I was 6 for the first one in 1977; 9 for the second in 1980 and 12 for the third in 1983. Empire is still my favorite of the three. I love the more somber version of Darth Vader's theme when Anakin dies and the music when Luke burns his body. I felt happy and sad at the same time.
43:40 In the old Star Wars novels and comic books that take place years after Return of the Jedi that are labeled as "Legends", Luke rebuilds the Jedi Order, and the major thing he does different in his Jedi Order is that he approves of attachments to friends and families, unlike the pre-Clone Wars Jedi Order, and he gets married to Mara Jade (who was something similar to an Inquisitor to the Galactic Empire known as The Emperor's Hand) and they have a son named Ben (who is a few years younger than Han and Leia's son and daughter Jacen and Jaina), and in one Legends novel, (I forget which one), Luke learns of his mother Padme and what happened to her in Revenge of the Sith.
...somehow...Palpatine returned!!!!
There have been tremendous advancements in technology, special effects, choreography... But I maintain that the elements here still make the greatest lightsaber duel in the franchise. The characters, score, the emotions, the storytelling in the fight itself, Luke absolutely flipping his shit and seeing Vader on his back foot for the first time... there's been some cool stuff since this... but I don't think it's been rivaled. Cinematic perfection.
A brilliant end to the Star Wars saga.
22:00 Leia is the only woman Luke knows. and it was a massive reveal, it rocked little kid me
There is an article published in Time magazine on May 19, 1980 where George Lucas discussed his plans for the Star Wars saga, including his intention to create a trilogy of trilogies. That was the plan from the very beginning.
Princess Leia Organa, is wise, discerning, and kindhearted, qualities that came from her mother. She is also passionate, fearless, and forthright. Gifts from her father.
Both were exceptional people who bore an exceptional daughter.
Also, you should have seen Mark's performance of 'Cocknocker '. Talk about some epic line delivery. ;)
Luke went darkside on Vader and only stopped when he saw Vaders wrist circuits. This made him think of his failure in the cave when it showed his anger will make him just like Vader. Qui Gon was the true Jedi, he did whatever the force led him to do. Even when the council disagreed. He is the first and only Jedi to find immortality as part of the living force, and during the clone wars he shows himself to Yoda and teaches it to him, and Yoda teaches it to Obi Wan.
52:45 how to spot whether it's been remastered: Greedo shooting (first, or in fact at all) and Jabba being included in ANH, more wampa screen-time in ESB, a sarlacc beak and the Force ghost of Anakin in RotJ.
55:11 yeah that was one of the bigger let-downs, having Luke turn up so out-of-character...
The reason Obi-Wan is so set on destroying Vader as a solution is because he himself has tried to find the good in him and Vader proved to him that Anakin Skywalker is no more. The fate of the galaxy is at stake right now at this point in the story and this may be the last chance they get. Obi-Wan has more cause to believe Vader being killed is what is best for the galaxy, based on his knowledge and prior dealings with him. That's what makes the ending to this movie so brilliant, because the unthinkable happened. Also to take into consideration, the only knowledge we have of Vader is what is presented in these 3 original films. To the audience, Vader is the big baddie and must be killed. Only now with the prequels do we understand Vader and his history.
To be fair Vader as Luke's father and Leia as his sister were both retcons made while writing Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Younger people make a huge deal about the kissing. Back when there was a lot more kissing amongst friends and family and society as a whole is a lot more reserved about public displays of affection than it was in the 70's and 80's.
And in context of the scene itself, she's not even kissing Luke for any reason other than to get under Han's skin.
34:14 Han Solo is actually 36 during this time in the universe, 12 years older than Luke and Leia who are 23, so Han is a lot more mature due to him being so much older and "wiser" lol... In the Sequels, Kylo Ren is actually 10 years older than Rey (30-20), so like father like son, I guess lol
You are absolutely right about Obi Wan changing his tune about absolutes. But you have to remember Obi Wan saw everything Vader did ... he murder little jedi children, he force choked his own pregnant wife, and led the inquisitors across the galaxy to murder every last jedi. But even then, Obi Wan still tried to talk him back to the light, and even when Anakin tried murdering him ... Obi Wan could not bring himself to finish off his brother, and when he caught fire he couldn't even watch to ensure he was dead. So ya, to Obi Wan, Anakin is unreachable ... he had been family to Anakin and a Father to him since Anakin was like 9yrs old. Luke only fought him once and learned its his dad ... how could Luke do what he couldn't?
You have to remember it was Yoda that gave Obi-Wan this perspective that Anakin Skywalker was forever gone. It was the only way that Obi-Wan could accept the fact that he was to potentially destroy Anakin. And although Anakin was not completely gone, his Darth Vader identity wasn't really him. Yoda explained to Luke in the Empire Strikes Back that when you turn down the dark path, it's like you're enslaved, almost as if you're possessed by an evil spirit. That's why when Obi-Wan told Luke his father was dead, it wasn't that far from the truth. Anakin Skywalker was rescued in the end.
He isn't looking at space. He is using the force to manipulate events from afar while looking into the future ... he says it several times " everything is proceeding as i have foreseen". Vader says it when he tells Luke the Emperor has foreseen that you can destroy him
Southern California is desert, but here in the San Francisco Bay Area and points north is a forest! The forest scenes in the movie were recorded on private land adjacent to the National and State Parks that protect the redwoods in Northern California. They were only allowed to record there because it was NOT part of the park, and it was clearcut soon after, so it doesn't look like the movie anymore.
But, the speeder sequence was recorded in a place you can still go visit, and it looks the same, because it was part of the park at the time and still is! Chetham Grove, part of Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park. 🙂
The reveal about Leia was absolutely shocking at the time.
“Right” and “wrong” don’t exist in the “react” genre of UA-cam. Different individuals reacting to unforgettable scenes and memorable moments in media and entertainment is fully and entirely subjective with no exception. Except, at 5:23, where your words and sentiment is exactly the right answer 😄 I swear, George really did a number with his CGI “enhanced” RotJ rerelease. Between this scene and Darth screaming “Nooooo!” like a big dumb robotic idiot before tossing Palpatine, I can no longer unsee the a$$clown that’s been living in George’s rectum since the 90s feeding him new ideas via “human centipede method”
First time here and became a member and liked. Love how you got in with your emotions when vader died just wanted to hug you. Anyway great video. 👍
At 52:50- Did they add him??? 😂😂 No they predicated what Anakin would look like back in 1983 (when Hayden Christensen was only 2 years old) and added him to the ending, ironically Hayden would be cast as Anakin/Darth Vader in 2002 so they were 100% correct, they must have had a crystal ball or something 😂😅😂😅
Anakin Skywalker was 23 years old when he became Darth Vader. He was 45 when he died.
My generation is so lucky that we got to experience Star Wars, like no other generation of viewers ever will. Everything was new. Everything was a surprise. There were no remasters of the original, to make them fit. There were no spoilers in every piece of media.
You NEED to see Rogue One, it leads directly into Episode 4, and tells the story of how the rebellion got the death star plans, It always makes me cry.
"If Luke can become a Jedi like his father, then his father can become a Jedi like him", said by the great So Uncivilized.