Okie Doke. Here’s a link to my opening of RotJ up to the point where Luke walks in through Jabba’s front door: //drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EleIyLvBBrk-D8zN9zy23NJhEeg6FMcs?usp=sharing
Its an interesting idea, i feel like a slight resuffle of scene could definately improve the opening’s presentation. Ofc Adywan has remained much more restrained with edits on the previous two films but I know he has big plans for ROTJ so hopefully he does have something up his sleave to adress the Luke’s-training-elephant in the room.
I’d say with this as an example, you have to be really careful with the Dagobah scene. There is not a whole lot of room to cut around so I would say comprimise would be the only option for a cohesive scene. It feels very trunkated to me, as we are entering mid conversation, so when this is first establishing scene of these characters in the film, it is very off putting. But naturally you couldn’t start much earlier without revealing that this is the first encounter with yoda since ESB.
So perhaps it would be best (if ady were considerng shuffling scenes) to yes put this scene here (before Tatooine), but comprimise and keep the orginal start of the scene where this is his first returning to Yoda, they talk perhaps over alterntive footage (where Yoda isn’t in bed) and “start his final training” then cut to show the infiltration of jabba’s palace, then cut back to luke “completing his training” (perhaps use the ben scene to bridge? or keep it after yoda dies) with a final conversation with Yoda as he dies then he returns to Tatooine to save everyone. That way it feels a bit more like the Bespin sequence where its clear at least some time has passed. And don’t forget confronting Vader is his last challenge to become a true Jedi Knight.
I don’t have the scenes on hand to see exactly what dialog and footage there is to work with, but its late and i need sleep cus reading my own post im not 100% sure it makes sense.