I was contemplating my wacky labyrinthitis induced dream, mentioned elsewhere, last night and I thought there was a real missed opportunity with the opening of ROTS.

We see this great space battle (most of it is silly I was referring to the scale) and we read that the chancellor has been captured and yet as I said in my previous post the city itself is unharmed.

My wacky dream had an attempt to capture and steal the senate building including the senate.

That is a way too OTT.

But imagine if the region around the senate building was swarming with aircraft fighting and the great buildings were collapsing.

The senate building itself would be taking hits and on the Chancellor's podium a Moff trys to reassure everyone that, "our Jedi heroes will triumph", at which point Padme looks up hopeful (and cut back to the battle).

You could reuse plates of the full senate and the falling pods from the now deleted Palpatine/Yoda fight and add some fresh debris to create a sense of drama.

There is bound to be a shot of Nat looking up in her many films which is reusable and it would give the team a chance to cast someone who actually looks like Tarkin and give him something to do (I'd have him replace blue flappy tongue guy at Palpatine's side through out the last two PT films).

It would also link Padme into the beginning of the film, she always seemed to be dragged along just to hatch the children and die in ROTS.