And all the Ewok stuff was supposed to be Wookie stuff in Reveng…uhm, Return of the Jedi, but Lucas changed his mind because he wanted to make a kid's movie. Add to that the fact that Darth Vader was NOT Luke's father until Lawrence Kasadan put it in the Empire script, and the possibilities for a truly great saga dissipated in a cloud of licensing agreements…

I'll grant you that the Ewoks were idiotic. I can't watch that movie these days without wondering just how the HELL the galaxy's most feared and efficient mechanised fighting force was brought low by a bunch of f***ing teddy bears with bows and arrows and rocks…

It's my favourite movie because of the final third involving the Battle of Endor in space and the equally impressive battle in the Death Star's observation tower. The rest of the plot ranges from mildly to ridiculously stupid.

But even I'm not going to claim that it's as good, in terms of plot and acting and general drama, as "The Empire Strikes Back".

Ewoks . . .

Imagine if that had been a battle on the home planet of the wookies.

That one change would have made Jedi a better movie. Jedi was the first sign of the cracks in Lucas ability to make a decent movie. Its been down hill since