Here’s hoping it levels out again, and I’m grateful for the material you mined from it even if it doesn’t. I love the idea of Leia beckoning, “Come home,” as it would tie into our modified final scene.

And that really would be interesting, to have a shot at having 3PO never regain his memories. I wish we had more material to work with of he and R2 talking. R2 could identify him as his “best friend,” and 3PO could express not recognizing him but imply R2 said they’ve known each other a long time, maybe asking, “Tell me about it” or something. We couldn’t smash cut to them straight away, and would lose a few seconds as R2 retracts his… rod, but they could just be carrying on and 3PO could ask something like, “And then what happened?” or “Oh my, how did we ever survive all that madness?” (It’d even sort of mirror their little conversation in Episode I right before the podrace.)

And I do love the idea of calling back to Episode II with 3PO not recognizing the name Luke Skywalker. Unless… R2 has already told him a bit about him. “…a message from this ‘Luke Skywalker’ I’m told I know very well” or something.

(All these quotes are provisional.)