timdiggerm said:
As much as I usually hate overexplaining fiction...
With sublight engines pushing for long enough, the Falcon achieves near c flight. A week passes on board the Falcon, while Luke trains with Yoda for months. Boba follows long enough to figure out their course, and can easily predict when they'll arrive. The Empire, thus, arrives just before the Falcon.
I don't know where this myth comes from that Boba Fett pursues the Falcon through open space. (and for a week!)
On the last shot where he swivels on his chair in cockpit. The Falcon was always shown getting much further away from him. Like he was no longer following. The falcon is flying off.
And he also seems to be triangulating a course of trajectory on that last shot too.
Bespin apparently was not too far away but what that means in terms of distance I have no idea it does not matter either to me.
People always seem to get annoyed when Boba Fett is brought up :) lol