DF Shadow said:
I like the idea of moving the Yoda death to the opening of the movie (even if it spoils the palace reveal, we can't have everything).......and then how about placing the Ben scene sometime on Endor before Luke speaks with Leia?
I think I've had a change of heart on this point. If the hologram of Luke is kept, the Palace Bad Ass Reveal isn't a reveal of LUKE so much as it's a reveal of LUKE IN ACTION, so it wouldn't be compromised by having Yoda bite the big one at the start of the film.
I myself wouldn't restructure it that way, but I don't see Yoda/Luke placed before Tatooine as taking any steam out of Luke on Tatooine.