Janskeet said:DarkFather said:We'd already covered a Death Star. It's lazy from a storytelling perspective.
Even if it was a battle over Courasant, would it be any different? I liked the idea of a second Death Star. Why not make another one? Remeber, before 1983, nobody had seen anything like ROTJ. So the material probably seemed more original back then.
I answered that in the comment you quoted.