darth_ender said:
1. It takes years to travel at the speed of light from one star system to another. But in this movie, without light speeds, the Falcon can cover those distances (from Hoth to Anoat to Bespin) in months at most (if we stretch our timeframe, which really is never very clear, but I don't think even Hoth to Anoat was more than a day).
We can make it even more bearable by remembering that, traveling at high enough speeds (and gosh, what isn't that Falcon capable of) without exceeding c, Han & Co would experience time dilation. A few days pass, Vader has plenty of time to do whatever he wants, then arrive at Cloud City before Han.
2. Which way is down on that asteroid. It appears as if Leia, Han, and Chewie are standing on what turns out to be the tongue of the space slug. Considering the slug's position, wouldn't that make gravity pull them sideways?
You're assuming that the tunnel has no bends. If Han was able to land the Falcon, it's pretty safe to assume that the tunnel has bent somehow making down...down.
3. And how was gravity so strong? Seems like earth gravity on this relatively small celestial body?
It's a very big, very dense rock.
4. And if there were no atmosphere, their blood would boil and their vessels burst in response to the pressure difference.
Given its size & density, some atmosphere in the deeper caves isn't entirely out of the question. Knowing, as we do, that it was really the inside of a creature, it's even more plausible.
5. What were the Rebels thinking during the Battle of Hoth? Every single Rebel troop in that trench wasted his time and many their lives by shooting at those walkers.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Maybe someone would find a weak point.
6. Why did Rogue Squadron, Luke included, target the walkers that were clearly less of a threat? They took down the generic walkers that weren't as close to the shield generator. They should have focused on the closest first.
Knowing that evac was inevitable, but wanting to buy time, they went for those closest to the inhabited tunnels.
7. How did Fett get to Cloud City, call the Empire there, and all the wheeling and dealing get done before Han and Co. arrived? He couldn't have possibly done so without knowing where they were going, and at the speeds they were headed, there was little he could have done to determine that for quite some time.
Given that they're moving at sublight speeds, one can limit the range of your search (just as Han did). Once you have a chosen system, the only sensible strategy is to point straight at your destination. Once the Falcon seemed set on a course, it was pretty easy to figure out.
8. Doesn't the Falcon have any sensors, or even a rearview mirror, to know they were being tracked?
One assumes so, but if those worked on Fett, he wouldn't be a very effective bounty hunter.
9. Doesn't the Star Destroyer have some kind of surface sensor to know there was something attached to them?
No? They docked lightly, so no one noticed the bump, and they stayed out of anyone's scopes.
10. Asteroids are never that close in a real field. If the field were that dense, it would actually be a dust cloud.
Hey, you don't know how it was formed.
11. "No. No. That's not true. That's impossible! Nooooooo, noooo!" Return of the Whiner.
Yes. It's one of Luke's flaws, which make him human.
12. Luke struck Vader's arm pretty hard with his lightsaber. How come it did so little damage? If a walker's armor can be so easily pierced by a lightsaber, I can't imagine Vader's armor is tougher.
Vader used the Force to stop him from getting farther.
13. Luke kept his fighter "on manual for a while." Again, celestial distances are much larger than most realize.
I won't speculate as to the distance between Hoth & Dagobah, but perhaps he was keeping it on manual for the part of the journey that wasn't hyperspace.
14. It never is very clear that Luke flew sideways into the suction shaft. I know I'm not the only one who thought that was the bottom of the pit rather than the side.
Yeah, that is just poorly communicated to the audience. It's not important to the story, but I agree that it takes too much effort to work out.
15. Why is Wedge still around? That guy never does anything but survive. He's now Rogue 3, when all he did in the last movie was run instead of getting behind Vader and his wingmen and defend Luke and Biggs.
If you're asking why they didn't kick him out, it's the Rebellion. They can't afford to. If you're saying he's a bad pilot, I'd say his presence and later performance demonstrate otherwise.
16. The movie drags in the middle. We get a lot of spiritual stuff and a lot of cheesy romance, while the plot takes a long time to get somewhere.
You're right, it should be faster, more intense.
17. Luke's a moron. He goes to Cloud City to rescue Han and Leia, but he forgets about it so he can simply satisfy his pride and face Vader in an obvious trap (as if Leia's warning weren't enough).
Luke has been living in a swamp with a gremlin and a robot, fighting ghosts. His head ain't quite in the right place. Plus, if Vader is the source of all their troubles, surely defeating Vader would help quite a bit.
18. How do mynoks fly with those bat-like wings? Last I checked, there's no air in space.
They're in the space slug, inside a deep cave on a big, dense asteroid. There's atmosphere.
19. Why do the TIE fighters get whacked to death by asteroids, the smaller star destroyer loses its bridge from an asteroid, and yet the Executor flies through the field untouched?
It has deflector shields. The Executor has better shields than the smaller destroyer.
20. Why do all the ships, regardless of their shape and the direction of the indeterminable light source, cast circular shadows during the asteroid flight?
Yeah, George should rerelease the film with improved shadows.