Sevb32 said:

Here's something I want to ask you guys, and please put some thought into it before you answer it. If those elements of Vader's shuttle leaving Bespin and docking in the Star Destroyer were in there since the 1980 release of Empire, would so many of you be so gung-ho to remove them? I don't think so.

If it slowed down the exciting escape as much as it does now, I'd still be all about getting rid of it. It's completely pointless. We know that Vader's shuttle came and took him to his Star Destroyer without showing him entering in it, flying it away from Bespin, landing it, and getting out.