adywan said:
I don't just add these things because they might look cool you know. Everything i do is carefully planned out. And things i have added that later on i don't think works, no matter how much time i may have worked on a shot or how good i think it may look, it will get removed. For instance adding the TIE's firing at the falcon firing the Asteroid scene. I really liked it and so did a lot of other people but it just didn't work as there was too much going on in that scene with them added. Without them it showed just how dangerous the flight through the asteroid field was as the TIE pilots couldn't concentrate on both avoiding smashing into the asteroids and targeting and firing at the falcon at the same time. So that didn't work and it was omitted. But this isn't one of those scenes.
It just so happens that the stuff you add looks cool as a bonus Admiral. ^^ Alrighty... There are several things that are justifiable about the changes Ady has done AND some of these are supported by the EU as well and I will reframe as much as possible from unleashing EU fully... =D
Someone earlier said something about the color of the ion cannon... Lemme get that one first: The ion cannon (I could of said the KDY v-150 Planet Defender class ion cannon... see how good I'm being?! ^^) is suppose to be blue, ion cannons have been established in ANH as blue with electrical discharging sparks. Recall R2 being shot in the canyon by the jawa: blue. In X-wing and TIE fighter the games: blue. Now ion cannon in Revisited: BLUE! yay! ^^ Considering how much blue Ady has removed from ESB maybe he thought he'd add some back with some hot ionized blasting awesomeness.
Now... along the lines of surrounding the planet "so nothing gets off the system"... THANK YOU ADY! Unless you want to restore it back to ESB like in Something Something Darkside... Leia/Loise: "We are not evacuating into space, with literally infinite directions to flee but we have decided to fly directly at that one star destroyer..."
The imperial fleet looks awesome now surrounding the planet just waiting and stalking. As the transport and her escorts come up they are now fired upon which makes so much more sense. They're out to lay waste to the Rebels, they're called the Death Squadron for a reason... (oh crap... EU.) So having the SD frag at least 1 of it's escorts does make sense because really... it's war and further more this is Star Wars... a rebel ship of some sort has to blow up. lol... (I'd also add a couple of hits on the Medium transport as well cos it's a huge target as well... but that's me...). Anyway, they fly a straight course backed up by ion cannon shot and now are seen hyping out of the system which adds futher awesome to "The first transport is away". There's your small victory really, the Rebellion will continue, some small hopeful Rebels escape the Empire with the people and weapons to continue the fight and if that is the ONLY ship that makes it out then at least the Rebellion will continue.
I could go into hyperspace exit vectors concerning the near by asteriod field and thus ship positioning around the planet is predetermined to further limit the rebel's escape vectors but I hope it doesn't go there... Riiiiight? Now let Ady get back to his awesomeness and/or rest. This has become rather pointless.