jonathan7 said:
Just to comment on Bingowings sequence for RotJ (I'm still thinking about RotS). I'd suggest a serious re-arrange of the ending to make it both a lot less complicated (less going on simultaneously and make far more sense and also more tense...The entire battle is going the Empire's way....
...Until the Emperor is killed by Vader, Luke carries Vader out, their scene together "take off my mask", last wee see them until Endor Surface. Then, and only then, the battle turns!
Now down on Endor; Ewoks get on top; Han escapes, they blow up the shield generator....We then cut to all of the Space battle;
The rebels destroy the Executor; I'd suggest one of the Mon Calamari ships sacrificing herself and ramming it, and then it crashes into the Death Star II. The Imperials are now in crisis; who is in charge? Possibly show arguments between Captains? Anyway Death Star blows up; rest of the Imperial fleet retreats... Rebels win etc etc
The problem with that is with the Emperor gone the end result is a foregone conclusion.
All narrative tension is dissipated.
What works about the triple conflict of ROTJ and fails in the same situation of TPM is the tension swirls, not just round and round but up and up too.
The sequences in TPM are too episodic but there is an almost musical structure to the layering of those ROTJ sequences.
It's the sort of thing you can do at the end of a trilogy and get away with.
At the beginning it's way too much.