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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1325335" data-attributes="member: 7394">Well, lets face it, there was a fair amount of revisionism in the classic trilogy. Many people, including Lucas, have said that Leia was originally supposed to end up with Luke, not Han. This is one of the reasons Harrison Ford wanted Lucas to kill off Han. The only reason Leia was pencilled in as Luke's sister is because they needed some trigger to set Luke off in his final confrontation with Vader the the Emperor. It was convenient, so they went with it despite the fact that the first two movies were playing Luke and Han against each other for Leia's affections. Personally I think Luke did much better with the redhead, anyway.As for what Lucas says the trilogy was about compared to what it really was about, well, there have been some works of literaure where the author debated the reviewers on the meaning of his or her work. According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the message of Rime of the Ancient Mariner was not about loving all the things that God made and he wished that he would have never put that line in the poem (and for those of you who don't know any better, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner was a classic poetic epic long before it was an Iron Maiden song).My honest belief is that the focus was intended by Lucas to be about Anakin's redemption, but what he achieves is the creation of a modern myth centered around the heroic journey. As we have seen, many things Lucas does end up a little different than he intends.I wonder if episode II would be more interesting if someone did an unauthorized edit.... *shrug*</blockquote>

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