And I agree that it was a poor bit of editing, done in service of great pacing, that shows Vader one moment on Cloud City and the next on a StarDestroyer. Yes, audiences can make the leap of logic, but it's just plain poor filmmaking technique to simply show someone at one place in one moment, and then someplace else the next .... even if the audience can put together some means of transportation and assume enough time has actually transpired between the shots viewed four seconds apart. But it's not something you want to have an audience be forced to do during an action sequence.

So ... we are at the point where I agree this was a fix the Special Editions might want to tackle.

BUT ... as with most of the "fixes," the execution was worse than the problem in the first place.

Rather than interrupt the flow of the film's concluding action sequence, much less the brilliantly-composed score by John Williams - a simple re-shoot of Vader's first 3-second Bridge sequence, instead filmed at an airlock - would have conveyed the transport and transport-time notion to audiences in an instant, and would not have interrupted either the editorial or music flow of the existing sequence. A filmmaker could not have asked for an easier-to-accomplish reshoot 15 years later than to have the featured actor be a man in a full head mask with no new dialogue needed!

So, there's no excuse for Lucas bungling this one. He's a cinema IDIOT!

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