Originally posted by: Dug
Were the troopers "holding back" in ROTJ, too, to allow the characters to escape or win?

Of course! They're the heroes of the movie, after all.

Seriously, though, I never really thought about the "holding back" thing before. It's interesting, but ultimately, the main characters are usually gonna get away, sometimes completely unscathed. The bad guys very rarely get the good guys in cowboy movies and neither do they in Star Wars.

One example is in docking bay 94. It was 7 or 8 stormtroopers in an, albeit short, shootout versus Han Solo and he didn't even get a flesh wound? "Precise" shooting indeed.

The best scenario would have been for them to kill Solo, then rush in and grab R2, but they didn't manage to hit him once.