rcb said:
i think ur in one of the star wars tales graphic novels. u tell a story of how u train pilots.
back to the Endor halocaust, i don't think it should really be a big deal about what happens to the death star debris and explosion. we're not watching star trek, though i'm a trekkie, so we don't care about that stuff. all we want is the fighting and storyline.
But that is what makes JEDI such a joke though; granted, nobody expects someone to stop the movie and do a PSYCHO psychoanalyzing ending explaining everything. At the same time, when you have something tremendously obvious happening (such as a Death Star TWICE as powerful as the former one blowing up in low orbit around a planet) you still have to deal with it in a fairly realistic way IF you want people to take you seriously.
Now there are multiple ways you can deal with this:
(1) go all out with the Holocaust theory, and as stated in a prior post, the DS2 "is" destroyed, but the bulk falls into Endor, wiping out all characters on the ground (taking elements from DEEP IMPACT and the like). Luke and Lando survive, but everyone else doesn't. Luke has his funeral pyre for Darth amid a blasted forest, and one could work a bittersweet ending (Empire still loses, or officers end fight and shake hands with Mon Motha or whoever; Luke still has mission to rebuild Jedi much less make sure the peace is kept, but there is a real price to pay for victory). I know, kind of a downer ending.
(2) Show the first part of the DS2 explosion minus the huge fireball - implication that the reactor wasn't enough to vaporize the thing, so most of the DS2 is still in orbit, with said "ring" formed by DS2 debris which stays in Endor's outer orbit. It could also help if the DS2 is shown to be farther away from Endor than what we see in the theatrical JEDI. It could also provide for a spectacular explosion that differs greatly from the first DS explosion, much less most other mega-explosions seen in most films (showing the DS2 explode, but to the degree that the bulk remains, with pieces being blown off, etc).
(3) it blows up spectacularly and that is the last we see of it, short of again some DEEP IMPACT style shots of debris raining down in atmosphere instead of fireworks (the DS2 debris provides the fireworks).