rcb said:
Johnny Ringo said:
Whatever the intention ESB feels like a span of a few days at most. Wasn't the whole point of going to cloud city that it was relatively close to where they were?

LEIA: What did you have in mind for your next move?

HAN: Well, if they follow standard Imperial procedure, they'll dump
their garbage before they go to light-speed, then we just float away.

LEIA: With the rest of the garbage. Then what?

HAN: Then we've got to find a safe port somewhere around here. Got any
ideas?

There's really nothing in the movie to indicate a great passage of time. Maybe they should have done a token 80's training montage?

AH! but you for got one line from Han, "Bespin is pretty far but i think we can make it"

Yeah, but I think that's pretty far but still "somewhere around here".

The claim that months pass during ESB is bizarre because there is a conspicuous lack of anything onscreen to suggest that months pass. My thinking is the months thing was the original plan (and thus got into the novelization), but was dumped. Edited out or whatever. Maybe months was Kershner's idea but Lucas wanted to go with days.