Bingowings said:
Ghost said:
Good points.
Also, do you think it would work to put the Luke on Dagobah scenes at the beginning of the movie. It would make the whole Luke a master Jedi thing more believable.
Then after that show him flying to Jabba's. That would be a pretty CG scene.
That's what a lot of us want, it makes Yoda's death scene less stupid too (he's held on to life long enough to finish teaching Luke rather dying in the middle of a conversation after giving him a very quick crash course).
It also starts the film on a double down note that only picks up when our heroes rescue Han.
Yoda dies, The Emperor has a new Death Star, Chewie is captured, Han is still captured, Leia is captured, the droids are captured , Luke is captured (suddenly ROTJ starts to feel like ESB).
We get one hurrah and then act II kicks in and it starts all over again.
I direct you, if you haven't been there yet to doubleofive's lovely list of all our hopes (it contains links to SSWR's Fan-O-Matics which are pretty much along the lines you mention and lots of nice brain and eye candy) :
This is one of the main reasons for doing it. It really shows how dire things are. It would increase the tension and up the stakes too to have Yoda gone before he goes to Jabba.
It would also make Chewie telling Han that Luke is a jedi knight make more sense.
Speaking of the fans wish list:
bingo, in your Luke goes to Tatooine and Kenobi's hut after Yoda's death(brilliant idea by the way), you show a picture of 3PO with the falcon in the background. Well, there is that 3po shot already in existence from AOTC where 3po sees "master Anakin" again after a long time. It's already on Tatooine. It already has 3PO. The only decision would be the background. You might be able to just keep it and then "golden" up the droid without any other changes.
I'm trying to remember if that AOTC shot had a tracking move or not.