Talk:Star Wars: The Force Awakens/@comment-929837-20141222123106/@comment-1672596-20141222141128

Kind of makes Return of the Jedi's Special Edition ending seem really pointless, eh (in case you're wondering what I meant by that, the special edition had a montage showing the entire galaxy, or at least Bespin, Tatooine, Naboo, and even Coruscant [and the last is the galactic center, which is basically the same thing as Berlin having large cheering over Hitler dying, or the large masses cheering at the President being killed at Washington DC], celebrating Palpatine's death with the strong implication that the Empire had completely collapsed as a result of Palpatine's death)?

Honestly, the old, Legends Expanded Universe had it correct by still having the Empire being around despite Endor, even if somewhat crippled. I'm actually somewhat glad the Sequel Trilogy at least kept that. Having the Empire collapse as easily as the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi strongly implied was actually extremely unrealistic, as otherwise Hungary and Eastern Europe would most likely have separated from the USSR far sooner and abandoned Communism much more quickly than it had when Stalin died. Then again, George Lucas did base the Ewoks on the Vietcong, and made clear he supports "pure democracy" and hated Capitalism due to his growing up in San Francisco during the 1960s (these were actually said by him, so don't try to claim foul of "political agendas" as I'm just relaying what he said in his words), so most likely reality isn't his strongest suit and is probably a commie.