ChainsawAsh said:
Janskeet said:
I'm a little confused by this idea of having Luke return to Ben's home in ROTJ?
By the way, your digital compositing work looks great!
The idea is to restructure the beginning of ROTJ. The way I see it working best is like so:
- Opening crawl
- Vader visits Death Star
- Leia delivers Chewbacca to Jabba
- Luke (who has been training on Dagobah since the end of ESB) sees Yoda die
- Leia releases Han and is captured
- Luke lands on Tatooine that night and goes to Ben's hut - "I can't do it, Artoo" - Ben's conversation with Luke (I'm in favor of getting rid of Ben's conversation altogether)
- Artoo and Threepio visit Jabba and get captured (no message delivery, straight to dungeon)
- Luke arrives, film continues more or less like normal from here
Note that the Luke on Dagobah/Chewie's "bounty" scenes could be flipped, but I think this works best for pacing.
A very interesting idea for restructuring the first part of ROTJ. There's just one little thing that doesn't make sense: Artoo and Threepio visit Jabba and get captured (no message delivery, straight to the dungeon.) Why would Luke send the droids to Jabba's palace without any purpose? Jabba's would just think that they were stray droids and wouldn't have any suspicion that they were part of a plan to rescue Han.
Here's how I would see it: Luke could have foreseen that Leia and Chewie had been captured, so he sends the droids as decoys to deliver his message to Jabba asking to release his friends in exchange for the droids. Knowing well that Jabba won't comply and will simply just take the droids, Luke enters the palace shortly after the droids are employed by the Hutt, and deal with him personally.