A common device in many narratives is the plan that goes sideways and the protagonists have to improvise to make it work. Maybe they have to cut the wire to the alarm to get into the diamond vault, but… there’s no wires. They’ve moved them, or replaced it with a new system! Now what?

Where this device falls apart is when the author doesn’t give any thought to how the plan would have gone if it went as originally intended. On a recent re-watch of Star Wars I got to thinking about this. How would each of the Star Wars Original Trilogy movies have played out if the plan went without a hitch?

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