Laserschwert said:

Bingowings said:

It would have made a refreshing change if Piett had rammed the Death Star with the Executor to save his fleet from the Emperor blowing up Endor.
A giant city sized dart cutting into the exposed (and now unshielded) unfinished side of the station would have been more unexpected than the Rebels blowing up shit again.

It would have looked good too and paved the way to peace talks.

Really? You prefer the simplicity of the first movie but then you want to break out of the clear black/white/bad/good scheme and introduce a twist like this? C'mon...

There is a difference between visual simplicity and intellectual simplicity.

The thrust of the piece is about redemptive acts, (bad people being made bad by life not born bad) so such an ending would be keeping up with the ideas of that episode and visually simple (an arrow plunging into a rotten apple).

The series has never been about black hat/white hat simplistic notions of good and evil.

Han is a criminal, the Rebels are violent insurgents (Vader believes them to be traitors).