Ziz said:I'm not so sure about "not enough Imperial presence". One of the things the films deal with thematically is the Empire's arrogance, that just the fact that they're there should be enough to scare people. To that end, they don't send everything they've got to every battle, just what they think will be needed for the situation. All they expected to be escaping from Hoth was a couple of slow, bulky transports, a few fighters and the Falcon. From the Empire's perspective, the Falcon was the only one that was a challenge - the rest were fish in a barrel.
As far as all the "ship travel direction" stuff, that feels like it's getting nit-picky. If you've ever tried to take real photos of objects staged a certain way you know that camera angles, shapes and perspective can play tricks on you if you're not careful. I read that when they first started filming the Enterprise D for Star Trek:TNG, the oval saucer was throwing them off - they had to film the ship from weird angles and going in illogical directions to correct the skewed perspective to make it look like it was going straight on screen. Could be something similar happening here.
Agreed. But with a force large enough to control a galaxy, even a small showing of power from the Empror should be over whelming enough to shock the viewer primarily into thinking resistance may be futile (what the hell am i going on about?).
What! Enterprise! Imperial alligence? Perhaps theres another story there (oh god, damn the repercussions of even suggesting that here!).
Josh, who is AdyMan? No idea who your going on about, but who ever he is, it would be his choice anyway, despite you saying that it maybe his choice in the end. And i have been sleeping like a log ever since (for a change, just got the one eye open these last few nights, and the guard stick is no longer under my pillow now, but its close enough). I think YOUR threats are futile perhaps :-D