darth_ender said:
An interesting suggestion Johannus. I'd love to see more Dagobah in such an edit, but I'm not sure how easy that'd be to do. Is there any chance you could do some sort of rough edit to demonstrate how possible it is? And welcome to our little club :)
Funnily enough I did start throwing together a very rough clip to demonstrate this so I will try to finish it off (though cannot guarentee it will be soon) but the biggest problem I found wasn't the footage as with enough editing I think existing shots of Yoda could be passed off as new shots, but the sound clips available.
I also tried to build on the idea in Spence's edit that Luke doesn't know about how badly their plan to get Han is going and he senses it through the force and flies off to help. To do this I wanted to remove the conversation with Ben just after Yoda dies and then when Luke is standing looking out at Ben from next to his X Wing put a voiceover of Yoda telling him 'Hurry, your friends, in great danger' so that Luke's look of surprise is hearing these words instead of seeing Ben. Then he flies off to help. However, I was really struggling to piece together words just for this short line but to be honest, if it could be done (perhaps with dubbing) then I think it would add a lot to showing Yoda as the master compared to Ben, just as I think the Dagobah scenes suggested would add something a little more iconic to RotJ, which lets face it doesn't add much new stuff to the OT.