trimboNZ said:
That's never really bothered me, though I've been concious of the discrepancy. Remember the first Death Star was complete and most likely fully pressurised as a sealed unit. My impression was that DS2 had very few habitable parts, and much of it was somewhat open to space.

The comparison I draw is igniting a small pile of gunpowder in a pill box, then igniting the same quantity packed into a bullet casing.

But reactors are completely different than gunpowder in a pill box. Remember that the Emperor also said: "now witness the fire power of a fully operational battle station!"... as in, it was fully operational. The reactor is online and pumping out planet-killer laser juice.

So either the reactor blows up like it does initially and the body of the Death Star remains intact (because the reactor explosion is not powerful enough to instantly vaporize the DS and everything around/inside it) or it IS that strong and as soon as it tumbles and explodes behind the Falcon, BLAM! Super large explosion! It can't be both.

You know, here's a depressing idea for an edit:
Lando blows up the reactor and everything happens as it does: Luke gets out and Lando gets out and yells YAHOO! and all that (though I would still thin the fleet outside).

But instead of showing the Death Star blow up as it does, do an ID4 showing the eplosions from the weaker reactor underneath the skin of the DS, which remains intact (per the first accessment written above). The DS then does a STAR TREK 3 and enters Endor's atmosphere, where you then take shots from DEEP IMPACT and show the bulk of the DS hitting Endor and wiping out the Ewoks, Leia, Han, Chewie, R2, 3PO and everyone else -not destroying the planet, but just causing a lot of damage around the impact zone.

You would end the movie with Luke taking Vader to the area where his friends used to be to put his body on the pyre. Since it is at night, you could alter the treescape and skyline to reflect a forest that has been pulverized with a shockwave (like after a forest fire).

This way, Lando and Luke survive, but damn near the rest of the cast dies as a result of the rebel attack (talk about consequences!) due to unforeseen circumstances.

This is not so much for JEDI:R as it is an idea for any editor to use.