8 Scenes That Would Have Ruined The Original Star Wars Trilogy

8. Darth Vader Crashes Into The Millennium Falcon & Dies - Star Wars

Despite what he likes to claim, evidence suggests that George Lucas didn't intend for Darth Vader to be Luke Skywalker's father when he originally planned the Star Wars saga. Lucas didn't even expect Star Wars to succeed at the box office, so chances are that he had no true visions of a sequel - or that iconic twist - until it came time to make Empire. But imagine the repercussions that would've occurred had Lucas gone with his original plan to blow up Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars: A New Hope. Seriously: in the original script, "The Adventures of the Starkiller: Episode I - The Star Wars" (dated 1975), a defeated Darth Vader crashes his spacecraft into a version of the Millennium Falcon and outright dies, whilst Han and Chewie are forced to escape their own vessel in a pod after the collision damages their ship beyond repair. Not only would this decision have spoiled what is arguably the greatest part of the Star Wars saga - the developing relationship between Luke and Anakin - but it would have robbed Star Wars of one defining attributes: Darth Vader as the over-arching villain. Had Lucas opted to kill off the Sith Lord at the end of A New Hope in a clear and visible manner (instead of having him spin off randomly into space), things would have entirely different. Luckily Lucas held back his original impulse to give Vader a fiery death, because his decision to do so helped make Star Wars into... well, Star Wars.