Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi/IMDB Corrections

## Audio/visual unsynchronised

* At the end, when an Ewok hits some stormtroopers helmet to make music as if they were drums, we hear metallic sounds. Stormtroopers armor and helmet are clearly made out of plastic, so they can't produce any metallic sound like this. **The helmets could be lined with protective metal plating.**

### Character error

* After C3PO gives himself up outside the bunker entrance in preparation for the Ewok ambush, the commander shouts "Bring those two down here". Both the current and subsequent shots reveal that he could only possibly have know that C3PO was there as R2D2 was completely out of view to the Imperial forces. **He could have spotted R2-D2 reflected in C3PO’s reflective plating.**
* During the Battle of Endor, Wedge sends a message to pilots in Red Squadron, yet the pilot who responds to the message is clearly an A-Wing pilot with Green Squadron. **The A-Wing pilot may have been temporialy assigned to Red Squadron to even out the number of fighters per squadron.**
* Darth Vader doesn't recognize Han's voice even after all the encounters they have had previously. **Maybe he did recognise Han, and decided to allow the shuttle through the shield, due to Han’s association with Luke.**
* The Emperor says that Luke's lightsaber is much like his father's. While it is a Jedi's weapon, in its exterior design it doesn't resemble Vader's or Anakin's, but Obi-Wan's. The prop used was in fact leftover Obi-Wan saber. **The Emperor is being sarcastic, possibly in order to force Luke to make an emotional response.**
* During the Special Edition where young Anakin appears as a force ghost, he is wearing the same of kind Jedi robes Obi-Wan wears in the Original Trilogy. Anakin never wore these style robes before his conversion to Darth Vader, and are not worn by the younger Obi-Wan. **Possibly a symbol of his redemption.**

### Continuity

* As Boba Fett is aiming at him from behind, Luke can be seen throwing a kick at a henchman (with a "WW2 German style" helmet) that misses by a mile and has no effect. While Boba Fett flies by him after being hit by Han immediately afterwards, Luke throws yet another kick at the same henchman, missing again - yet this time the guy throws away his blaster and jumps overboard. **He doesn’t want Luke to attack him any more!**
* In Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, just before Han Solo is encased in carbonite, the metal shackles on his wrists are removed, but the strap binding his upper arms is not removed. When released from the carbonite, his upper arms are no longer bound. **They may have dissolved when Han was released.**
* The Executor is at the front of the Star Destroyer squadron during the combat scenes of the Battle of Endor, but is in the middle of the squadron in the view from Palpatine's tower. **It only looks as if it in front.**
* When riding on the skiff, after Luke tells Han he used to live there, Han turns to Luke when he says, "You're going to die here, you know. Convenient." But in the very next shot he is facing away from Luke. **He’s going back to looking for any sign of their destination.**
* When Luke surrenders to Vader, it is nighttime and less than a minute later, as we see the ship take off, it's suddenly daytime. **A number of hours could have passed between the two events.**
* Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, brings Chewbacca to Jabbas palace, claiming to collect a bounty on Chewy's head, upon which she's being granted access. When she sneaks back in, everyone is sleeping, but not known to her is Jabba and his entourage is quiet behind a curtain. Then suddenly, everyone in the palace is awake and behind Leia and Han. **They were likely pretending to sleep.**

### Miscellaneous

* The Ewok's captured the gang and were able to tie up Chewbacca to a pole and carry him. **Han must have persuaded Chewie to offer no resistance.**
* There is a scene where the Ewok's have to swing across a vine to get to the next section. Everyone is being carried on a pole, yet they get them across the swinging vine and then tie them back up on the pole. **Or they tied the vine to the pole, and swung them across that way.**

### Incorrectly regarded as goofs

* When Vader is searching for Luke in the Emperor's throne room, he is holding his ignited 'red blade' lightsaber in his right hand, and another unignited lightsaber handle in his left hand. **This is because of a deleted scene where Luke throws his lightsaber out to Vader.**
* Following the line in Jabba's droid torture chamber, spoken by EV-9D9: "Splendid! We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him," the camera cuts to a 21B Medic droid which is seen being disintegrated. **This is not meant to be the actual protocol droid in question, just a demonstration of what happens to droids who displease Jabba.**
* Endor is repeatedly referred to as the "Forest Moon" or "Sanctuary Moon" throughout the entire movie, yet in the scene when the Rebel Fleet comes out of hyperspace, you see Endor and the Death Star from a distance, but there appears to be no sign of the planet the Endor moon is orbiting. **The novelization explains that the planet has been destroyed "of unknown cataclysm and disappeared into unknown realms."**
* When Luke swings a blow at the Emperor in the Second Death Star, Vader blocks with his light-saber. So his blade should be between Luke's blade and the Emperor. In the 2004 DVD release, the red of Vader's light-saber is clearly visible on top of the blue of Luke's blade, so it looks more like Luke has just defended the Emperor from Vader. **It could be that the lightsabres are interlocking.**
* It makes no sense why neither Obi-Wan, nor Yoda taught Luke how to deflect Force Lightning, a signature attack move of the Emperor. Especially as both are later revealed to know how to do it. **Both characters only knew Luke for a short time; it's even a major plot point in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back that he rushes off to face Vader without finishing his training. He'd have a lot of training to complete prior to learning more advanced skills like that, anyhow.**
* Admiral Ackbar states that the Death Star is "orbiting" the moon of Endor. However, it is actually geostationary above the shield generator. **It could be in geosynchronous orbit, which is still an orbit, but with a frequency equal to the orbited body's rotation.**
* As Ewoks eat humans, as it's almost presented on Han, it's questionable why Leia was safe from this fate after she entered the village. **She forged a friendship with Wicket (the Ewok who found her knocked out), so that would have gotten her an "in" with the village. As they have a dress in her size, it's clear the Ewoks have had some positive contact with humans or humanoid species in the past.**
* When the team on Endor is captured by the Ewoks, C-3PO states that his programming forbids him to impersonate deities. However, after Luke makes his chair fly in the village, he does exactly that. His programming should still forbid it. **It is a recurring element of C3PO's character that he sells his abilities short.**
* Jabba the Hutt is holding prisoner Han Solo, a valuable Rebel Alliance asset. Rather than sending a full commando regiment to overwhelm Jabba and liberate Han, the Alliance sends a surgical extraction team of a few people - the irreplaceable Luke Skywalker, the irreplaceable Princess Leia, the valuable Lando Calrissian, and two droids - to break Han out stealthily, when there is plenty of danger to their lives. **Nowhere in the film is stated that the Rebel Alliance sent them. The lack of soldiers supporting them, implies they went on their own. Likely without the support of the Rebel Alliance. Although the film doesn't clarify this.**
* Luke proudly declares he's a Jedi like his Father before him, when the Jedi are technically supposed to be celibate. **That rule has been defunct for 20 or so years at this time.**
* When Jabba's sail barge explodes, the heroes ride away in one of the skiffs, while the other is left behind. It looks as if the remaining skiff is being held up by poles at the end of the craft. **These poles are a decorative part of the fan-like projections on the rear of the skiff, not supports to hold it up.**
* Yoda learns in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith from Qui-Gon Jinn that a Jedi can become a force ghost after death. He then teaches the technique to Obi-Wan. However, Vader was never taught how, yet appears as a ghost at the end of the movie. **Sidious and Vader were planning on discovering the secret to cheating death, Vader very well could have discovered on his own**
* At the end of his fight with Vader, we see Luke throw away his lightsaber, yet when he meets with Han and Leia on Endor, it is on his belt, despite him not having enough time to retrieve it. **Luke only threw his sabre onto the floor and it would take him only a brief moment for him to reclaim it.**

### Plot holes

* After Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader goes back to build a new Death Star. He seems to forget about Leia and/or Luke instead of setting a trap for them, knowing that they would go to rescue Han Solo. He didn't even bother leaving Troopers nearby just in case. **It should be noted that the Empire was preparing his final assault against the Rebel Alliance at the time. So they wanted all of their Forces on Endor. And the production of the Second Death Star was very rushed. So, Darth Vader and the Emperor were clearly very busy, and had their hands full.**
* Lando Calrissian, former owner of the Millennium Falcon, doesn't use the ship's top and bottom gun turrets in the Battle of Endor, for some reason. **It is used in deleted scenes that show there was a larger crew on the turrets, it is unknown why they choose to delete them.**
* Boba Fett knows that Darth Vader is hunting for Luke Skywalker, and wants him alive. He would have told Jabba the Hutt about this. It is in their best interest to turn Luke over to Vader for a reward, rather than feeding him to a monster and wasting this opportunity, and possibly incurring Vader's wrath. **Jabba isn’t a rational individual at the best of times!**

### Revealing mistakes

* Han's blaster prop was constructed by modifying a Mauser C96 pistol. During the climactic fight scene between the Rebels and stormtroopers on the moon's surface, the weapon's exposed hammer can be seen moving when Han pulls the trigger. Harrison Ford even seems to cock the hammer more than once. **This could be a way of controlling the safety catch.**

## Notes

1. ↑ This is consistent with what happened to the group Rogue One.