Star Wars fans roast Return Of The Jedi alternate ending

Star Wars’ quality is, well, inconsistent.

Episode IV - The Rise of Skywalker is widely considered pretty abysmal, whilst Disney Plus series The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi didn’t garner all that much praise either.

But then you have top-tier projects in the way of Andor, Skeleton Crew and, of course, the franchise’s original trilogy.

Sure, the Ewoks are annoying, but there’s little you can really fault about that original trilogy.

Oh, besides Chewbacca not being awarded a medal; that upsets me.

The story largely hits all the right beats across all three films.

That hasn’t stopped fans though from dreaming up an alternate ending, albeit one that pales in comparison to the original.

“What if Vader was saved on Endor?” asked Reddit user cr1spy_biscuit.

Well, it would take away all sense of conclusion, that’s for sure.

“Just one more thing Mr Vader,” The8thDoctor joked, “23 years ago, there was a classroom of kids dismembered. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that?”

“First stop: war crimes tribunal,” added Nimrod48.

“He probably would have been sentenced to death for his war crimes,” added Pr0sthetics and they’re probably right, as the First Order took some time to rise.

“Han asking Vader to have permission to marry Leia would be hilarious,” commented ctcourt, with KingOfAzmerloth adding, “He'd be jailed for lifetime. Redemption or not, he committed so many atrocities it's just too much even for fantasy universe to just be shrugged off.”

Would it have been good to see real justice served? I suppose so, but I also think Return of the Jedi would have suffered if time was added on to see Vader jailed or trialled for his crimes.

A death may be seen as a lesser sentence by some, but within the context of this film, it certainly aided the film’s pacing.

I wouldn’t have changed a thing.