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Adywan, I have a small suggestion for a dialogue tweak. In the throne room sequence the Emperor delivers the line “An entire legion of my best troops await them.”
Given how easily they end up succumbing to the Ewoks, that “best troops” line contributes to make the Empire’s forces seem rather toothless. In drama if the villains are devoid of threat then the accomplishments of the heroes are also lessened, and so I think this sequence is better served by the easily-defeated Imperials being regular Stormtroopers rather than elite.
The Emperor’s line is delivered during a cutaway shot to Luke and Vader, and so could quite easily be snipped - my simple suggestion would be to remove the word “best”.
After all the Emperor is defined as being overconfident - it seems in character that he wouldn’t have considered the small squad of rebels worthy of deploying his “best” troops for.
What do you think?