Gary Kurtz: How Star Wars Lost Its Magic

What if there had been no second Death Star?

What if Han Solo had died heroically?

What if Luke had walked away like Caine in Kung Fu?

It's strange to be reading these words 27 years after Return of the Jedi opened. But they ring true.

He added: “The first film and Empire were about story and character, but I could see that George’s priorities were changing.”