The brand new ending shifts from Luke incinerating Vader (simply because the Ewoks kick off their festivities) to pictures of residents celebrating Bespin, Tatooine, and Coruscant (with the 2004 DVD launch additionally including Naboo to the combination). “Yub Nub” has been changed by a John Williams melody, “Victory Celebration”, which is the icing on the cake for this ending.
The unique celebration was completely nice as a fairy story ending with the implausible story advised by George Lucas. We noticed the principle insurgent forces and Ewoks have a good time, with the tribal sounds of “Yub Nub” and the low-key occasion matching the thought of primitive Ewoks defeating the futuristic Empire. However the brand new model is a lot extra. For starters, Williams’ rating is catchy, victorious, the end result of an epic battle, the edit serving as a coda to the Rebel. The brief pictures of individuals celebrating are the one instances within the unique trilogy the place we see how most people reacts to the riot and might watch them cheering on the rebels.
On the time, it made sense that we would not see extra of it. There simply is not sufficient room (or funds) within the unique trilogy to distract from the principle storylines to point out what random “Star Wars” residents are as much as elsewhere. The outcome made struggle in opposition to the Empire comparatively easy, virtually straightforward.
Over the previous decade, nevertheless, Lucasfilm has turned its consideration to the years main as much as the destruction of the unique Dying Star and the Rebel’s first main victory. Motion pictures like “Rogue One,” exhibits like “Rebels” and “Andor,” video video games like “Fallen Order” and “Jedi Survivor,” and even the whole prequel trilogy have proven that the trail to victory was not a fairy story.