what would you have me do?

if anyone ever asks why return of the jedi is my favourite star wars film i’ll just send them this gif

Jesus imagine how much officers and Imperial guards must hate it when the Emperor gives any command that doesn’t involve an explicit or implicit exception for Vader. Like, the Emperor is like “I am not to be disturbed for ANY reason” and the staff spend the rest of their shifts sweating and hoping that Vader doesn’t show up because if he does he’s definitely going to answer their denial by silently throttling them without touching them. And you can tell the guards are just raising their weapons for show, because really what are they gonna do? They’re two jackasses with pikes.

this has not stopped being funny. that guy just narrowly avoided death and he has to keep standing there in front of Vader. “Very good,” he says, like this is a normal exchange with somebody who was not just a second ago 100% going to murder him. he’s such a nightmare

I love Vader’s “my bad” hand gesture afterwards

imagine that this isn’t even the first time it’s happened with this particular dude. he sees vader striding towards him and is like ‘here we go. again. kriff i hate my job’ 

Return of the Jedi (1983) dir. Richard Marquand

if anyone ever asks why return of the jedi is my favourite star wars film i’ll just send them this gif

period!

saw a post about how “apparently in the novelization of rotj Luke was hoping the Death Star would explode with him on it” like no that’s not (just) the novel that straight up the text of the film his plan is literally to stall palpatine long enough for the rebels to destroy Death Star 2 he literally tells palpatine to his face that “soon i will be dead and you with me” he SMILES as he says it like we’re going down in a fiery blaze together, bitch, and if we’re both dead i won’t have turned or have been forced to kill my own dad and i’ll be dead and you’ll be dead that’s a win win let’s dance

“luke is the least traumatized” luke tried to kill himself twice

RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) | OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022)

Return of the Jedi dir. Richard Marquand | 1983