I don’t know if I’d frame that was what the ending was “supposed” to be. Sounds like a spitballing session where Lucas both came up with, and then rejected the idea.
Kasdan immediately responded, “That’s what I think should happen” — but Lucas didn’t actually want to go that dark because “this is for kids.”
Sounds like nobody was stopping Lucas if that was what he’d wanted.
If all we had to go off from is the quote then I would agree but there is also concept art and leaked scripts but most importantly the empire strikes back was building thematically towards Luke turning to the dark side, I’m not sure how early he scraped the idea but he definitely had that as a goal in episode V.
That’s one possible direction, and I think because you favor it you are considering it the “true” and lost ending.
There was a lot of concept art, such as a volcano throne room that ended up being completely changed.
I think in the conversation between Lucas and Kasdin the fact that the idea seemed thrown out on the spot and novel means it wasn’t meticulously prepared for previously. Star Wars has never been as planned out as people think, it is full of soft retcons and handwaves. There’s a lot of concepts that get lost. Saying any given tossed off concept is what is “supposed” to have happened is just leaning into a personal preference.
Was the Volcano Throne room thrown out? See Episode III - Rogue One. He obviously wanted it and it did happen eventually but the earliest scripts for episode VI had him Join the sith, this would indicate that during the filming of Episode V he had that on his mind.
I don’t know if I’d frame that was what the ending was “supposed” to be. Sounds like a spitballing session where Lucas both came up with, and then rejected the idea.
Sounds like nobody was stopping Lucas if that was what he’d wanted.
If all we had to go off from is the quote then I would agree but there is also concept art and leaked scripts but most importantly the empire strikes back was building thematically towards Luke turning to the dark side, I’m not sure how early he scraped the idea but he definitely had that as a goal in episode V.
That’s one possible direction, and I think because you favor it you are considering it the “true” and lost ending.
There was a lot of concept art, such as a volcano throne room that ended up being completely changed.
I think in the conversation between Lucas and Kasdin the fact that the idea seemed thrown out on the spot and novel means it wasn’t meticulously prepared for previously. Star Wars has never been as planned out as people think, it is full of soft retcons and handwaves. There’s a lot of concepts that get lost. Saying any given tossed off concept is what is “supposed” to have happened is just leaning into a personal preference.
Was the Volcano Throne room thrown out? See Episode III - Rogue One. He obviously wanted it and it did happen eventually but the earliest scripts for episode VI had him Join the sith, this would indicate that during the filming of Episode V he had that on his mind.