STAR WARS is dying. EPISODE III will shortly be released, and the series will be all done, all over.

But for me the films have long been dead. This death came as my realizations emerged of Return of the Jedi’s impossibility. I am not talking about discarding my childhood belief in my telekinetic powers.

Many years ago my email correspondence with a friend, and also my family, evolved from complaints about the film Return of the Jedi to thoughts and ideas on what generally would satisfy us in the film, if it were different, and from there to the ambition of re-writing the entire film.

Here, I’ll pull from those summaries, and post the gripes, questions, and proposed revisions, peacemeal. I invite you to comment on each. I begin with my own present summary of what I view as the film’s most critical flaw.

I was delighted when my brother spotted an article illustrating that Orson Scott Card has the same primary complaint with Return of the Jedi.