Oh, we’ve noticed…
Actually, in the original version, not only is the dish missing, but so is the entire right side! 😃
Yes, I’m sure everyone here was aware of that.
The point I was making was that the missing dish was because it’s supposed to be a different freighter. If it was supposed to be the Falcon, they’d hardly have made that mistake now would they?
For years people have foolishly assumed the dish was missing because of budgetary constraints. But just like with the trench, the difference was obviously a deliberate creative choice to confuse the audience.
Having iconic and memorable “establishing” shots of diminishing size both moving from left-to-right across the horizontal plane…
…that clearly “established” the trench being the same one, was actually a clever ruse to confuse the audience all these years. It brilliantly fixes the wrong location of the action in the minds of the viewers in 3-demensions, on an almost subliminal level. Well played Lucasfilm, well played.