Ghost said:
If you moved the throne room scenes to Coruscant Palpatine and Vader are in no immediate threat.
When I watch the movie, that's not what I'm thinking about. Also, isn't that make sense there in no threat. Palps should be smart enough to learn from the destruction of the first DS explosion. Palps was smart enough to play both sides of the coin in the PT.
This film isn't about the DS explosion at the end of the film. Vader and Palps are already dead, so what's your point here? I'm probably misunderstanding you.
Lastly, I think the palace in space crap is nonsense. Palps should be on Coruscant, like most people assume he is. Not floating around in space, talk about putting yourself in danger.
That may not be the how it finally plays out but clearly Luke and the the Rebels gamble everything on the hope it would be, otherwise they wouldn't be there in the first place.
It's one of the two reasons for their attack on the Death Star.
Sure they would probably want to destroy it anyway but the reason why they are so keen to do it there and then is because the Emperor is there (throwing the majority of the Imperial court only sweetens the pot more and make the final victory more believable).
Luke makes a dig at the Emperor's hubris when he meets him (which he counters with a dig at his faith in his friends).
He is so confident that he cannot lose that makes sense for him to actually be there in person to bait his trap, that is his weakness.
Moving the final duel to Coruscant makes no sense at all.
How the hell is Luke going to get out of there on his own?
He is one Jedi against the entire Imperial capital planet and the assumption will be he has just killed their leader and his favorite enforcer.
Flash Gordon might get cheers and medals the moment he kills an Emperor (well at least in the Dino version) but Star Wars despite it's shared roots isn't that kind of story.
Getting off a doomed battle station on the other robotic hand is more plausible.