Not really a double-post, but to give you an idea of what I meant in my long post a couple above... Just the decompressing of Jedi back into four films. I went with a lot of the plot points we got, a lot of what was in earlier drafts and brainstorming sessions, shuffled around episode titles and even borrowed some from the EU*, some came from understanding the universe better than George does, and some is just a sense of what makes a good story honed by years of experience and practice.
[*Actually, my titles for nuEpisodes I-VI are: A Long Time Ago, The Approaching Storm, Agents of Chaos, The Clone War, Revenge of the Sith, and The Fall of the Republic. Y'all let me know if you want thumbnails of those, too. *heh* 
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EPISODE IX -- RETURN OF THE JEDI
Leia, Lando, and Chewie concoct and enact a plan to bust Han out of Jabba's palace. It goes sideways. Leia and Chewie are captured. Lando can't act without getting himself captured or killed. Han is thawed in the process and thrown in the cell with Chewie while Jabba plans his next move. The droids show up, heralding the arrival of Luke, which comes as a surprise to Leia and Lando. Luke shows up wearing some of Obi-Wan's old robes to sell the Jedi thing. Rancor. Sarlacc. No Boba Fett. Sandsotrm scene. Han thanks Luke. Luke says he has to go somewhere else, and Leia says to hurry because the entire fleet should be assembled by now. Scene between Luke and Yoda, and Yoda's death, followed by Luke's conversation with Obi-Wan. Luke heads back to his X-Wing, where Artoo is borderline frantic, and projects a message from Leia saying there's bad news. It seems the Empire has been secretly building a new Death Star, purportedly bigger and more powerful than the first, and probably without the flaw that let them destroy the first one.
EPISODE X -- THE PHANTOM MENACE
Vader arrives at the construction site (aboard the
Executor, thank you) to motivate them back on schedule, has Force-y conversation with Luke, who comes out of it in his quarters on the Rebel flagship in the middle of the briefing summons. General Madine is talking to a dozen or so spec-ops types, including Han and Leia. The General is saying they have a lead and need a commando team to go rendezvous with field agents to track down the lead and get what info they can back to the fleet. Rst of the film is something of a suspense thriller in space, if you will. Our Heroes' efforts ultimately yield a location and the fact that there are, in fact,
two Death Stars being built -- one further along than the other. They escape back to the fleet. Many Bothans die. And the planning of the final assault begins.
EPISODE XI -- OUR MOST DESPERATE HOUR
The location gleaned at great cost is the next planet in from Coruscant, which has been kept as a nature preserve and former vacation spot in the waning days of the Republic. The entire system has been an intel black hole for years, hence why it took so long to discover this. The Empire is using Wookiees as slave labor for the heavy construction, holding their children hostage to force them to work. A two-stage attack has a commando team going in first to get the innocents out of harm's way and see to as many defensive systems as possible, then the fleet will jump in to do their own version of Base Delta Zero on the Death Stars and jump out again before the Imperial fleet can respond. Our Heroes free the Wookiee kids, who help them confound the garrisoned troops. Luke realizes Vader is close and can sense his presence, so turns himself in. The fleet arrives. It's a trap. I won't go into the twist. Narrow victory, but Luke is on his way to the Emperor's Palace. Leia doesn't want to leave without him, but they're about to get an Imperial Starfleet on their butts and have to bail.
EPISODE XII -- THE BALANCE OF THE FORCE
This one has more of a psycho-thriller feel. More time and thus more subtlety in the Emperor trying to twist Luke to the Dark Side, playing him and Vader off each other. Stuff transpires that's hard to get into here, but ultimately Luke resists, the Emperor starts slowly killing him, Vader intervenes at cost of his own life, Luke leaves with his father's body and sets the palace's power systems to blow. Poignant coda, as everyone wonders what's next for them. No Ewok celebration, which will please some and infuriate others. No crowds cheering in the streets across the galaxy, and certainly not on Imperial Center.
Kinda hard to get a proper feel from them from paragraph plot summaries, but hopefully that will at least convey the gist.
--Jonah
