darth_ender said:

^Sounds like some sort of devious plot to plant ideas in my head, like some sort of inception.

Yeah, I tend to do that.

Anyways, I was thinking about the first time that a rebel ship is destroyed, and it doesn't really have as much weight as it should. That's why I thought we could make that Madine's ship, which would make it's destruction more surprising/shocking because the audience would think "oh my god, he was just explaining the plan, and now he's dead!" Also it would explain his absence from the battle.

And yeah, the reason I considered removing the Leia and Wicket scene is to make the Ewoks more mysterious.