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Originally posted by: Spyder X
Even if those places were under the control of the Empire, they wouldn't be celebrating anyway. First of all, the Return of the Jedi Special Edition ending implies that the celebrations are all happening the same day. There's no way that even news that big would be able to get to all those places as fast as it did. Second of all, even though the Empire's ultimate weapon and two biggest bad guys were destroyed, it doesn't mean that all of the Imperial troops all across the galaxy magically dropped dead like the droids did in Episode I. Just because the Empire's main sources of power are gone doesn't mean the troops died. They'd still be around and able to control those places and I honestly don't see why everyone would be celebrating, unless they managed to kill all of those remaining troops after hearing the news. And besides, Death Star II isn't the only place where the Empire is stationed. There are obviously other bases around the galaxy and even if Death Star II was the only one, the Empire would still be spread out around the galaxy and it would take a lot of time to get rid of all the remaining Imperial troops.
And even if the celebrations were just for the destruction of Death Star II and not the end of the Empire, there'd be no reason not to have similar celebrations for the destruction of Death Star I. After all, the first Death Star had been completed and had actually blown up a planet and would've destroyed the Rebel Base if it hadn't exploded a few seconds earlier. It was a much bigger threat than Death Star II, which didn't even get completed and only destroyed a few rebel cruisers.
Sorry, but the Return of the Jedi Special Edition celebration ending just doesn't make sense and is really pointless, since the various planets wouldn't have total freedom yet.
Couldn't have said it better myself. That was one of the main scences that turned me against the SE. It does imply it was all happening that night, though logically it couldn't. I read the novels. In "The Truce at Bakura" , Bakura didn't know of the Emperor's death until the now "New Republic" comes to their aid. Bakura isn't that far from Endor, it would be among the first to hear. However, we see Tatooine, a planet on the other side of the galaxy that didn't care about the war having celebrations. We have the evacuated Cloud City partying. The worst is Coruscant. A planet so fiercely imperial that no rebel sympathizer dare live on it. In one book, an Imperial even muses on how celebrations weren't a problem on Coruscant. Then Jedi:SE comes out and changes that. The celebration on Coruscant is now canon. However, it's more sensical in the novel. Basically, after that shot ends, as the character described it, "Then the Stormtroopers came; and began firing indescriminately into the crowd". Coruscant was a fortress, the center of Imerial power and politics. It has two planetary shields, orbiting gun platforms, and its own personal Star Destroyer fleet. Something to the level we saw couldn't happen.
It also implies that everyone hated the empire, and that everyone loved the rebels. While there are things that suggested that Palpatine could exert mind control on the populace(hence why the fleet fell apart after his death, not to mention the hiding of the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya), you need sympathizers as well. It's been far from a cake walk for the New Republic. As for Vader leaving, the shuttle scence was possibly the worst addition in the SE. It breaks the tension of the scene, ruins the music(thankfully the OSt was intact), and Vaders agitated, "Bring my shuttle" was far better than his mostly calm, "Alert my Star Destroyer(doesn't he know its name?) to prepare for my arrival", followed by stock footage of the DSII's hanger(BTW, would Vader get a more prestigeous welcome on his own flagship than a mere squad of Stormtroopers?). Honestly, did anyone ever wonder how Vader got back to his ship?