Nice ideas, but short of re-shooting, I don't know how these suggestions could be accomplished. I guess we'll have to write it off as another lost opportunity of the PT.
I think the hand twitch thing is doable and has poential, but it kind of leaves the audience hanging, wondering what happened to Padme.
Darth Richard,
That's a good idea to ask OCPMovie for VFX help. Does he come around here anymore?
I also think we should start to write all of these changes down to all the movies, to know what we're doing.
PaulisDead2221,
The DS can be partially blown up, if just one half of it blows up. It's a big explosion, but it only destroys half the superstructure. The Empire later comes along to salvage what's left and rebuild it. That's what we could see happening at the beginning of ESB. Kind of like fixing a car that's been totalled.
I think you're suggesting that we end ANH after the rebels escape from the DS. The problem with that is: why didn't the Empire just send the DS to blow up Hoth. In order for ESB to happen the way it does, the DS needs to be "taken out" in some way.
Guy Caballero,
Taking the DS/DS II out of ROTJ is interesting, but we run into the same problem of having to put Coruscant into all those windows. Also, what will the rebel fighters do once Han does get the shield down? What are they attacking? Are they trying to take out a portion of the capitol city (with all its innocent inhabitants) to kill Palpatine? That seems a little too heartless to me.
Commander Courage,
Did InfoDroid ever get anyone to record Niemodian voices for TPM? I was wondering why we wouldn't want someone to record some jibberish that sounds like the Duros from the cantina.