Jaitea said:

NJM said:

Something bothers me. Looking at this now, I'm curious as to the geography of everything. So, Luke lands on Cloud City, and moves around inside the city trying to rescue his friends until he comes to the lift which sends him upwards into the carbon freezing chamber. After round one of the duel, he walks down a rather short tunnel inside the gantry structure where he then gets blown out the window, and lands down on the exterior walkway. Exactly how is this entire journey possible looking at that structure? How does Luke get from the freezing chamber into at the top of the structure? All of the landing platforms are at the very top of the city. How does he end up getting further down and deeper inside it when the lift takes him UPWARDS into the chamber? What am I missing?

Yeah this was debated (at length!!!!) around pages 450

It's a nice design but doesn't make sense!

J

Short answer was that we just didn't (and don't need to) see every step of his journey from the landing pad to crossing paths with everyone else to the CFC.

Call it "dramatic license".