BarBar Jinkx said:

The biggest gripe I have with it is that Yoda doens't even try, he gives up like a punk and runs with his tales between his legs,

What if we could have a bit of Qui Gon dialog (a la luke's trench run) were he tells him to run and that there will be another time to defeat him.

what do you think guys?

While that does seem like a viable solution for improving the sequence, I think cutting it out is probably better, as CGI Yoda jumping around can get quite irritating.

If one really wanted to keep this, I would suggest it as a bit of a surreal sequence.. like the Cave. It would end with Yoda falling down into some dark abyss (underneath the Senate seats) and then cut to him meditating on the Tantive IV. I don't think Palpatine would be that unguarded physically, and a mental failure would really indicate to the audience that the Jedi have utterly failed. (I believe someone actually suggested this before.)