The Road to Return of the Jedi, Only Part

Last year, I read all the early drafts of Star Wars publicly available as a sort of leadup to the thirtieth anniversary of the movie. Now, with an awareness of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Return of the Jedi coming up in May, I've got around to further following up on a Saga Journal review I wrote (having already commented on a "fake Episode III script" that increased my appreciation for the real thing) and read the one early draft of the movie the "Jedi Bendu Script Site" has managed to find. With only one draft to read, I was seeing a snapshot of sorts rather than a process, and yet it just may have helped settle a decade-long grudge...
( 'Han, you escaped, you're alive!' )

( 'If you call this living.' )