ChainsawAsh said:
Octorox said:
I don't know about showing Luke on Dagobah before we see his entrance on Tatooine. The way the new and improved Jedi Luke is presented is pretty effective.

The idea for that edit is to make it seem like Luke spent more than a week becoming a Jedi. This way, he has spent an indeterminate amount of time on Dagobah - we assume after ESB he returned there to finish training, then he finishes, Yoda dies, and he leaves.

(The Fan-O-Matic thread is even more radical, changing Ben's scene to take place on Tatooine, though I think that's technically infeasible given the footage available)

And honestly, even if I didn't do all that, I would rewrite the crawl anyway. The only reason is that it's boring. Look at ANH: "It is a period of civil war." ESB: "It is a dark time for the Rebellion." ROTJ: "Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt." Wow. Talk about boring, and a mouthful to boot.

But doesn't Luke say at the end of ESB that he is going to Jabbas palace pretty much right away?