Chewie’s introduction in the cell is one of the few changes I’d really like to see in even a ‘soft’ fanedit like this. It’s basically a plot hole that Chewie isn’t captured, since 3PO says ‘Lando Calrissian and poor Chewbacca never returned from this awful place’.
See this never bothered me and I don’t see it as a plot hole because I assumed the gang kept C3-PO in the dark about the full rescue plan because he’s a blabber mouth and couldn’t be trusted once fallen into Jabba’s hands to not give away this information. So from his perspective, he only knows that Landa and Chewie went to the palace for some reason and never returned. This is apparently quite different from the fact that Lando isn’t captured but infiltrated and therefore was never going to return before the rescue plan was carried out and Chewie was taken in as a pretend hostage, both facts C3-PO is unaware of which makes me think he’s completely unaware of the plan and his part in it.
Whereas you get the feeling that the far clueir R2 is in on it, especially seeing how he has Luke’s lightsaber onboard for say “contingency plan C” when Luke bargaining in person also predictably failed. Though I’m sure he certainly didn’t expect to find himself locked in a Rancor pit as part of the plan 😉
.Val