Adywan said:

the main problem with having the cloud car flying towards the city is then we have 3 consecutive shots of a ship flying away from the camera. First Luke's X-wing which wipes to the shot of cloud city then straight into the fly-though scene with the cloud car. the middle shot really needs to be different or the repetitiveness is glaring. In the clip i did put that it was a temp shot and i always miss the original wipe shot with the cloud car (don't get me started on that refinery again. ;) lol). i have a few ideas about what to do with the shot but just need to do a few tests first.

Just a thought, but what about a compromise in this shot, where you could still have the 'main' cloud-car coming TOWARDS us (ala the GOUT original look) to juxtapose against the preceding shot of Luke's X-Wing RECEDING away, but ALSO have a 2nd cloud-car in the shot, being seen to be RECEDING towards the city too (which would eventually look as if it ties-in with the start of the following shot showing a RECEDING cloud-car beginning it's city 'fly-through')

The one coming TOWARDS us would still be the dominating 'movement' in this shot, and would continue to give the necessary difference of 'direction of travel' between it and the before and after shots.