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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 7317947" data-attributes="member: 3887">In Nolan's Dunkirk, the success of the entire evacuation doesn't hinge on the actions of Mark Rylance in the boat and Tom Hardy in the plane. Their actions are heroic & impactful, but *do not* dictate the overall success of the mission.  The same cannot be said of the protagonists in Return of the Jedi. Which was my original point: individuals play an outsize role in the Star Wars franchise. The fate of the galaxy is in their hands. Therefore, the Resistance being reduced to a handful of heroes chilling in the Falcon is sad and certainly a set-back, but nothing the good guys can't come back from. Given the "established facts" (note the scare quotes) of the Star Wars universe at the time of RotJ, you could easily write the Battle of Endor without the fleet. Rebel Alliance fighters & bombers have hyperdrives. They're not carrier-based. Instead of the whole Rebel fleet, you could just as easily have had the Falcon and a handful of escorts fighters jump in really, really close to the 2nd Death Star, then do their 'inside-the-superstructure' bombing run. I think the reasons it wasn't written that way was obvious. It would have been too directly similar to the end of Star Wars, and the creative team wanted to show a full-fledged fleet battle between the Empire & the Rebels. Which looked terrific! But in terms of the what we saw on the screen, the Rebel fleet didn't accomplish much. They basically acted as a tension-raising element; each capital ship getting picked off by the 2nd Death Star was like the tick of a countdown clock.</blockquote>

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