In response to the Bespin balcony scene, could Lady Ferry or someone else post a link to that segment via a video link on Youtube? I think it is not so much a matter of how that one shot looks per se, so much as how it fits with the rest of the sequence.

Llike Gorilla mentioned, if you see the balcony, but then when you see the same hallway but from a different perspective and there is NO balcony, or in the case where Leia and Co. go outside the door R2 opens and we do not see a balcony from the outside - as in on the side of the buidling that they just came out of- that would pose a problem. Consistency is the key and making sure that everything "fits" from an architectural point of view; it is the same with the Carbonite chamber and how it fits with the rest of the scenery (regardless of what in particular is done).

Savage: I understand your POV as well - that's how I thought of the carbonite chamber: it was inside the shaft wall and Luke went into the arm connecting the Fin Pod to the air shaft. We don't have to see Luke or whoever go down every flight of steps or ladders to understand that a large distance is covered, but in circumstances where you literally go from one set to the other (or you can SEE bits of what looks like the previous set) you try to fit it all together in your mind after the 10th viewing or so.