adywan said:
Tallguy said:
adywan said:
I've got to disagree on this one too. Needa would have had a Lambda shuttle. The Empire was based on Nazi Germany and the Nazi officers always had the best cars. It was a status and power symbol, very flash
But there's no need for it to be a Lambda. Needa's shuttle WAS cool. It also gets away from the notion that seems to pop up in EU stuff that there is ONE kind of anything. We have 39 kinds of Star Destroyer but only one kind of "best" shuttle?
And maybe the Lambdas were NEXT years best model?
But the original Needa's shuttle was just a TIE bomber. What was he going to do? Bomb the hell out of the Executor so he didn't get strangled? lol
What's interesting is that in the script the shot of Needa's shuttle doesn't appear at all. It's simply described as:
EXTERIOR: SPACE -- IMPERIAL FLEET
The fleet around Vader's Star Destroyer now includes Needa's Star Destroyer, the Avenger.
It makes sense as to why it was changed. It would be easier to make clear to the audience what's going on by showing a shuttle than just showing a Star Destroyer.
As for why they used what looks like a Tie Bomber, that goes back to the concept work for A New Hope. They had originally designed a boarding craft that was later written out of the script:
When it came time to make the Empire Strikes back they resurrected the design and used it for Needa's shuttle:
Then added a chute to make it a bomber:
Edit: Oop, Jaitea beat me to it.