Thank your for the input, and actually it isn't too late at all! I don't know if you thoroughly read the thread or not, but if you check a few pages back you'll note I pretty much scrapped everything and started over a few months ago. I really like some of your ideas, but I'm not sure they can be worked in to my edit.And yeah I totally agree about the han and luke talk before the pit. In my original edit this scene was completely gone, and now I'm trying to decide on a way to make it better with less damage to pacing.

They are good ideas but I don't want to change the film that way. But if you have any other ideas feel free to suggest them. I'm pretty well satisfied with the way I've cut the opening of the scene for the most part, but I'm always open to suggestions on Endor and the rest of the film.

I;ve thought about rearranging the opening similar to what you suggested but ultimately decided to leave it as it was. Call me a sell-out, but I'm not really looking to make radical changes to the plot like that. And the other problem is introducing Luke at Degobah takes away from his dark and mysterious reveal at palace, which is something the film needs. Also there wouldn't be much of a good first reveal if we bring chewie in first either for jabba. I mean he's first seen being introduced to the droids. If we put the chewie scene first, well he doesn't really have much of a reveal then he's just there and the audience is like "Wtf is this frog doing here"