

At least until the final third. Despite zombie Leia that scene of the ordinary rebels passing on the plans as Vader tears through them hits much harder now you know the rebellion grew via the same desperate sacrifice. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
If they just reshot the same scenes with the same actors now they’re more in the roles you’d probably fix much of the film.
Yeah, I agree. I will say Beyond the Stars does a lot of heavy lifting and the love scenes are a admirable failure. It’s hard to show two damaged people who are bad for each other genuinely in love without the jarring stilted tone shifts. A better dialogue writer than Lucas (who isn’t a bad storyteller but is so visual it’s hard to fix) could have done it.