Sluggo said:

2. Yes. Stormtroopers where everywhere. If the rebels split up and were hiding on, oh say, levels five and six, the stormtroopers could report it in. And if you manage to lower a blast door on them, they still will find a way to make it through. And they all can't miss. Sooner or later, one of them will hit their targert.

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4. The shooting script and the rough cut of Star Wars had Ben sneaking past many more Imperial officers and Stormtroopers. The Force was with him.

For two, I was really just referring to Ben being surrounded by them just before his death, not the other stormtroopers we'd seen prior to that. When the the stormtroopers noticed that Vader was fighting this old man and jog over there, did viewers go, "Oh, shit. He's surrounded. He's screwed. What's he going to do now?"? And, more importantly, is that a view that is diminished because of the prequels where dozens of stormtrooper equivalents are no threat at all to a single Jedi? In the context of the first movie alone, are a dozen stormtroopers considered a serious threat to a fully-trained Jedi?

And for four, look at my original post, I guess. I was actually praising Ben's actions in the first movie for being the only true examples of stealth in, well, any of the movies. Had this been the sequels, or especially the prequels, Ben probably would have just gutted them all with his lightsaber without a second thought.