Bingowings said:

I'd be interested to see how that pans out but my instincts would point to putting the second Death Star scene right after Han and Co leaving Tatooine.

Jabba is the is is just the starter and the Emperor is the main course.

If you mix the two up the whole thing becomes tapas.

The Emperor arriving is mentioned in the briefing so the two scenes are linked.

Yeah it's not a bad idea but I don't think it would work. That would mean having the opening scene be vader on DS and then yoda and then another scene again with vader. And with the emperors appearance we need more build up.

I was thinking of splitting the scene up in two tho, and have a break from jabba's palace. (Meaning having yodas death and lukes talk with ben 2 separate scenes) Like I what if, after say Chewie is taken away by the guards there is a transition wipe back to degobah and have lukes conversation with ben? Then having it cut back to han's attempted rescue at night. I like the idea of having something to split between (it's one of the few times in all the star wars saga, the only one I can think of at the moment, where so much time is spent in one place in the galaxy at once). What I don't like about it is it makes it seem like luke is waiting around on degobah instead of hurrying to help his friend.