Octorox said:Bingowings said:Octorox said: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?
He says that they will meet at the rendezvous point on Tatooine as soon as Lando has tracked down Han.
Presumably there was some planning involved and Lando getting into the Palace without Boba Fett kicking up a stink would take some negotiation (I don't think for a minute that mask would fool him).
yeah, I guess it would work then. But, how does Luke know when the leave Dagobah. He justs seems to leave when Yoda dies. Isn't that rather convenient timing?
Yoda hangs on to life long enough to complete his training (but to be a Jedi Luke has to face some home truths).
Ben's spirit now tells him Leia is his sister and like Luke has the potential to be both a Jedi and a Sith (and going by the way she stands over Lando while Chewie chokes the life out of him a tactic she later uses on Jabba, she has enough of her Father in her to be just as much of a danger in the wrong hands as Vader was).
The rescue is already on the way but now he has an added Jedi reason to protect Leia (to stop her from being discovered by Palpatine and turned into his new apprentice).
When he rushed to save Han, Leia etc in ESB it was out of pure emotional attachment, when he saves the gang in ROTJ it's now part of a bigger picture.