adywan said:.Where are all the Imperials? well they're off chasing the falcon. Vader has returned to the executor for the pursuit. Now 3 stardestroyers try to trap the falcon , and with the amount of ships we see approach HOTH that doesn't leave any for a blockade after one has been disabled. So luke is able to escape without any problems, so no blockade. Vader is using the whole destroy the rebels to find Luke without the Emperor knowing what his true agenda was so after he thinks Luke has escaped he probably wouldn't have cared less if they are all captured or not.
Well, this is still a troublesome issue, because there were at least 7 to 9 Star Destroyers in the fleet (as shown in the Executor introduction), so even if 3 were immediately sent after the Falcon as Vader and the rest of the snowtroopers were picked up and transported to the Executor there would still be @ 4 to 6 ships to cover a good sized area of space by Hoth (especially if they picked up where the rebels were taking off from).
- as far as Vader and the rebels (rock group name anyone?), yes he had the ulterior motive to capture Luke and destroy the Emperor, but being that he had plenty of ships to spare AND the rebels are conveniently right there in front of him, it wouldn't be too hard to believe that Vader would order 2 to 3 SDs to go after the Falcon, have the Executor follow once Vader was on board and then have the remainder of the fleet "catch up" once they have either mopped up what they could of the rebel escape or recovered from the ion blasts.
As far as Luke getting to the last transport, he could have used the force (knowingly or unknowingly) to mask his appearance ala Obi Wan during the tractor beam de-activation scene in ANH (you know, where he "throws" the sound for the stormtroopers to hear, and when they turn back they STILL don't notice him?), not to mention one could assume that most if not all of the snowtroopers were inside the rebel base.
- also, Luke is walking AWAY from the base, being that he is walking towards us when he spins around to look at the Falcon taking off out of the main hanger, which is behind him.
I would still consider showing some more SDs in Hoth orbit, even if you show a good 5 or 6 dead from ion cannon blasts, with maybe some wreckage of rebel transports that didn't make it.
This is why i will only ever use what is in the 6 movies as canon for Revisited and nothing outside for these because the canon keeps changing all the time and has become a mess.
Here here on that. While it would be cool to see some references here and there, it could also just tend to complicate matters and create more "prequel paradoxes" concerning the overall story arc.
Ripplin said:
Is it just me, or do those two pictures Adywan posted look very weird? The first one has red and green specks all over the place, and the bottom half of the second one is pink. :p
Both images look fine to me (no artifacts or defects); I'm using Mozilla Firefox as my browser.