What did you like better:
Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back ?
- Empire.
- Blasphemy.
Empire had the better ending.
I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off,
finds out Vader's his father.
Han gets frozen, taken away by
Boba Fett. it ends on such a down note.
I mean, that's what life is:
a series of down endings.
All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.
There was something else
going on in Jedi.
I never noticed it 'til today.
- They build another Death Star, right ?
- Yeah.
The first one
was completed and fully operational
before the rebels destroyed it.
Luke blew it up.
Give credit where credit's due.
- The second one was still
being built when they blew it up.
- Compliments of Lando Calrissian.
Something just never sat right with me
that second time around.
I could never put my finger on it,
but something just wasn't right.
- And you figured it out.
- The first Death Star
was manned by the lmperial Army.
The only people on board were Storm
Troopers, dignitaries, lmperialists.
- Basically.
- So when they blew it up, no problem.
Evil's punished.
- And the second time around ?
- it wasn't even done being built yet.
- it was still under construction.
- So ?
A construction job
of that magnitude would require...
a lot more manpower
than the lmperial Army had to offer.
I'll bet they brought independent
contractors in on that thing.
- Plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers--
- Not just lmperialists.
- Is that what you're getting at ?
- Exactly.
To get it built quickly and quietly,
they'd hire anybody
that could do the job.
You think the average Storm Trooper
knows how to install a toilet main ?
- All they know is killing.
- So they bring in
independent contractors.
- Why are you so upset ?
- Those innocent contractors
brought in are killed,
casualties of a war
they had nothing to do with.
Look, you're a roofer. Some juicy
government contract comes your way.
You got a wife and kids,
the two-story in suburbia.
This is a government contract
which means all sorts of benefits.
Along come these left-wing militants
who blast everything...
within a three-mile radius
with their lasers.
You didn't ask for that;
you had no personal politics.
- You're just trying
to scrape out a living.
- l don't mean to interrupt,
- but what are you talking about ?
- The ending of Return Of The Jedi.
My friend is trying to convince me
that independent contractors
working on the Death Star...
were innocent victims
when it was destroyed by the rebels.
