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I'm afraid I'm in the camp that found the alteration of Luke's relationship to Leia a real lolfest. The whole point of the dynamic in the first movie was the traditional love triangle between the beautiful princess and her two knights, one in shining armour, the other the no-good womaniser.
Suddenly in the very next movie this dynamic just vanished into thin air, suddenly Luke and Leia are brother and sister, but not only that, the no-good womaniser had suddenly become the shining knight to Luke's beautiful princess. So Leia is left with only one romantic choice, the no-good womaniser & then just kinda tags along for the rest of the movie providing sit-com style marriage banter with Solo as if they'd already been married 10 years.
While the big set pieces are great, there are great swathes of the movie that are dry as a bone. If the Yoda planet scenes aren't your favourite Star Wars scenes then ESB has a huge intermission/toilet break. These scenes also have very little pay-off as Luke loses regardless of any new powers or knowledge. Cloud city is mostly unmemorable beyond the Darth Vader scenes.
Whenever I hear people prasie ESB it's usually just Hoth & the snow stuff that's got the magic, & I agree that the first half hour or so is pretty much perfect cinema, well, aside from it should have been Luke saving Solo, what with Luke being… the main hero?
Suddenly in the very next movie this dynamic just vanished into thin air, suddenly Luke and Leia are brother and sister, but not only that, the no-good womaniser had suddenly become the shining knight to Luke's beautiful princess. So Leia is left with only one romantic choice, the no-good womaniser & then just kinda tags along for the rest of the movie providing sit-com style marriage banter with Solo as if they'd already been married 10 years.
While the big set pieces are great, there are great swathes of the movie that are dry as a bone. If the Yoda planet scenes aren't your favourite Star Wars scenes then ESB has a huge intermission/toilet break. These scenes also have very little pay-off as Luke loses regardless of any new powers or knowledge. Cloud city is mostly unmemorable beyond the Darth Vader scenes.
Whenever I hear people prasie ESB it's usually just Hoth & the snow stuff that's got the magic, & I agree that the first half hour or so is pretty much perfect cinema, well, aside from it should have been Luke saving Solo, what with Luke being… the main hero?
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