Chewbacca hugging Luke is really fun and very sweet and eapecially great because Luke looks so short. They surrounded Mark Hamill, who is pretty tall himself, with a bunch of people taller than he is, and honestly, great choice.
There was a scene where Darth Vader could barely fit through a door. Like, straight up, he fills up the entire doorway. That man was huge, ginormous, gigantic, I looked it up, he was six foot six inches! He was six and a half feet tall! He’s! So! Big!
No wonder people think Luke is short, he is literally only taller than Leia.
Darth Vader was going through it, man. First of all, Palpatine only just barely told him his son was still alive. Second of all, he offered to rule the galaxy with his son, father and son style, after killing Palpatine of course, and he had his son literally cornered, and Luke decided he’d rather fall to his possible death than spend more time with him.
Darth Vader just sort of drops his hand. I think he was thinking “Yo, what the fuck, Luke????” He realized, at that moment, that he must’ve been terrible to raise, because his son is just as dramatic as he is. He probably had a moment where wondered if he could somehow apologize to Obi-Wan…
So Darth Vader spends a while scouring every edge of the galaxy because he is trying to convince his son to join him in evil activities, goddammit. It takes forever to find him, and when he does, it’s because Luke literally turns himself in.
The power of Ewoks is unimaginable. They could’ve hidden Luke forever. I believe in them.
But then Vader’s son keeps going on about how much he still believes there’s good in him, like a total asshole, and refuses to hear reason! So Darth Vader takes him to Palpatine and is like “ha, see, I did take you to the Emperor, just like I said, and I will stand here and watch as Palpatine messes with you, and I’m sure this won’t awaken any feelings of fatherly protectiveness in me.” He’s wrong, but that doesn’t happen very fast because first Luke accidentally drops the bombshell that his daughter is alive too! Vader straight up had a son and a daughter and nobody told him! He had to find out from his son, and then he used her to taunt Luke and Luke goes feral and cuts off his hand! Vader definitely deserved that. You know what they say, eye for an eye, hand for a hand.
I really like that Luke just stares blankly at his father’s missing hand for a bit. Like, he just looks at it. He’s like “Gee, cutting off the hand of the guy who cut off my hand actually made me feel a lot better, I’m cool now, we can talk about things reasonably.” Luke is way too fast to forgive, Darth Vader didn’t even have a flesh hand! It was not the same, Luke! He literally made you dependant on prosthetics, Luke. All you did was cut off a small part of his prosthetic, Luke. These are not the same.
Anyway, Darth Vader is probably thinking “Finally, my son will kill me, or kill Palpatine, please kill Palpatine, actually, and join the Dark Side and we can hang out.” But Luke still refuses! And he calls his dad a jedi! Despite never having a dad before, Luke sure knows what to say to guilt-trip his dad. So Vader kills Palpatine (by lifting him up and throwing him into a hole, how did Vader lift him up with only one hand? Was he using the Force? Did he just go apeshit? Someone probably knows, but don’t tell me, I won’t listen) and himself in the process and dies after looking at his son for the first time. Bummer of a reunion. He had to watch his son be tortured with lightning. 0/10, maybe Obi-Wan was right when he said Anakin was dramatic, at times.
I like Palpatine’s face while he continuously electrocutes Luke. At first, he looks evil and like he’s having a gay old time. But, as it continues, he just looks confused. Like, this desert twink is not dying, I have shocked him five times, how is he still alive, people die the first time, what the fuck? I like that.
If you think about it, the Empire fell because Palpatine underestimated the strength of those baby blues-
I love Ewoks. I love their little faces. I love their little language. I love that they waddle when they walk. I love that they eat trespassers. I love that they later decided those very same trespassers they tried to feast on for their new god buddy are actually apart of their club now. I love that they surround and conquer. I love these tiny little furballs and I want twenty of them, they are so cute and vicious! I just want to help them build a trebuchet and then past their fluffy little heads. One of them dances with C3-PO at the end of the movie, it is so fucking cute.
I’m so proud of Luke. He became a true Jedi. What? By defeating Vader? No, earlier than that. When he was telling Leia that they were siblings. He told her in riddle form, the way a true Jedi Knight would, he finally got a Jedi training riddle book-
I love that Luke is told he has a sister and right away figures out it’s Leia. Obi-Wan described Luke’s sister as vaguely as possible and Luke was like “LeIA??? My sister LEIA?”
Then, Leia figures out that they’re siblings. Which, whoa, now she has to deal with the realization that Darth Vader is her father. But also, she’s like “Luke, I’ve only known you were my brother for thirty seconds, but if anything happened to you, I’d kill everyone in the Empire and then myself.” Same, honestly.
I think it’s super funny that Han thinks Leia wants Luke, romantically. Especially because he’s jealous but understanding. I also like that Han just assumes Luke is interested the same way. Because either Luke and Leia just acted way to familiarly over the past three plus years, or Han just thinks that Leoa can get with any guy she wants. Maybe that’s why he’s not as jealous in Cloud City. He knew that Leia was the only being in the galaxy capable of not falling for Lando’s wit.
I think it’s especially funny when Leia tells Han that Luke is her brother. Because Leia seemed to have found out Luke was her brother and assumed everyone else knew as well. Han is like “You love him, don’t you?” And Leia’s like “Of course I do.” And Han’s like “I get it, I’ll get out of the way.” Leia looks at him like “What the fuck are you talking about?” Then she’s like, “Han, no, not that way! Luke is my brother :)” and kisses him.
I love Han’s face as he realizes that Luke and Leia are twins. He starts by looking tremendously confused. Then, he looks like it’s all dawning on him. Oh my God, he probably is thinking, no wonder they were close literally from the moment they met, they are literally wizard twins. Oh my God, he probably thinks next, I fell for a wizard twin. Jesus Christ on a bicycle, he definitely thinks. I fell for the first pair of hot twins that fell in my lap. It’s a very funny play of emotions, I like it a lot.
I’m going to be honest and admit that I like Luke and Leia being twins. I like that Luke saw her the first time and was immediately drawn to her. I like that Leia saw him the first time and immediately trusted him. I like that they trust each other implicitly from the very get go. Luke trusts Leia to cover his back and Leia trusts Luke to figure out a way to get them out of a bad situation. I like that they don’t know they’re twins. They just know that they’re drawn to each other and want to be close to each other. They just know that they want to look at each other and smile a lot. Leia kisses Luke, but it’s not a very romantic kiss. She does it because Han is pissing her off. Luke is literally recovering from hypothermia and nearly being eaten to death. It’s the least romantic kiss in the history of film kisses, because Leia kisses his mouth the same way she kissed his cheek, just longer. It’s the most platonic mouth to mouth kiss I’ve ever seen in my life.
And it makes sense that they might’ve been confused by their bond. Neither of them had a sibling before! Not to mention the inherent bond between them because they are space wizard twins. I guess what I’m saying is that it didn’t feel like a retcon to me. It didn’t feel like them just going “oh, we don’t want Luke and Leia to get together at the end.” It felt like they were twins from the start. Maybe tha twas just the actors’ chemistry or knowing that they’re twins from the start, but they honestly never came across as romantic. Leia was pitched towards Han from the start. Luke is the gayest person I’ve ever seen in my life (he literally uses a belt to cinch his waist, his tiny little itty bitty waist, he is gay gay homosexual gay.) I feel like them being twins was in the plans from the start.
It made me really uncomfortable when Palpatine told a twink that he would come to call Palpatine “master.”
Overall, I liked the movies.
I mean, I didn’t like Jabba the Hut. I spent every second he was on screen waiting for Leia to strangle him to death. I know Jabba is meant to be unlikable, but the slave costumes just make my skin crawl. I’ve always disliked them. I don’t understand the obsession with slave Leia, and I’m saying this as a person atttracted to not only women, but scantily clad women as well. I hate it, I hate it, I hate all of it, they should’ve dumped Jabba into the Sarlacc pit.
Other than that, I liked the movies. I like the character dynamics. I like that Luke’s best friend is an astromech droid. I like that C3-PO is finally treated kindly, as he deserves. I like the different creatures portrayed throughout the films, my personal favourite are banthas. I like the different cultures and races portrayed in the films. I like the octopus people. The fight scenes very much improved by Return of the Jedi, which I appreciate because I really couldn’ t take two only men smacking each other with laser sticks seriously. The dog fights are great from the start, but they massively improve by the end, and it’s fun to watch them. I like AT-ATs.
