Darth Venal said:

doubleofive said:

Darth Lars said:

Ghost said:

Does anyone think that Vader's entrance in the Hoth battle is weak? He comes out of nowhere.

I agree to a bit. I think this was discussed very briefly a long time ago in this thread, or in the "wish list" thread. One suggestion, as I remember it was that there would be a shot where the AT-ATs were followed by a landing shuttle or star destroyer emerging from the cloudy sky. (or is it just in my head?)

We did discuss it on one of the threads, but any addition would destroy the pacing and is really unnecessary, much like the "how did Vader get back to his Star Destroyer, show us his ship landing George!" scene in the SE.

What he said. Ibid.

Why the hell should Vader need an "entrance" in that scene? He's already taking part in the sequence of events, it's not like he's a surprise appearance. Sheesh, who comes up with these ideas?

His name is Mr. Lucas and he attempted to set the redundancy record for most consecutive ship landing platform shots in a movie trilogy for all-time in the prequels. I swear to the energy field surrounding all living things there is a sequence in Revenge of the Sith that goes from one ship landing scene to a scene that also ends in a ship landing scene.

As for the "he needs a better entrance" idea, he already has an entrance and it's called the first of the movie. That's what an ENTRANCE is. And nothing will surpass his first appearance in ANH anyway. But his coming into the base on Hoth is actually bad ass with those snowtroopers and he stalks in like he's in a rush. It's cool as is.