Bingowings said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^I think you've watched TESB too many times for all the wrong reasons.

Or maybe not enough.

It's clearly explained in the film that there has been a lot of meteorite activity so the second impact is one of those.

The so called teleportations and casual strolls are just editing for dramatic reasons.

Bingo the shooting script has the probe droid appearing after luke get's dragged off by the Wampa.

That means that the meteorite was clearly meant to be the probe droid and because Luke was attacked he failed to check it out so it got away. They just edited it in a weird way creating a paradox as the footage of the probe crashing and the meteorite are exactly the same.

They even got john Williams to re-score this section for the film as the star destroyer releasing the probes was a new addition Han rides into echo base with Darth Vader / Evil Empire music still for some reason rather than the intended music and scene order. They just kept shuffling things about and changing things. especially in the first 3rd of the film of ESB. I would imagine that they felt the first act was challenging for them in many ways

The 3PO scene saying goodbye to R2 in the x-wing was originally meant to go after the scenes where Luke left 21B and said goodbye to Han and Chewie before boarding his speeder. But the new scene where R2 has the lumps of ice falling on his head contradicted this so I guess they moved it creating the teleportation effect of him flitting about so rapidly.

If it was edited for dramatic effect let's weigh that last one up.

The death of general veers makes the casual stroll as I put it all the more plausible but he is killed before the shield generator is destroyed. So that would not really fix anything unelss that was also meant to move to after the destruction of the shield generator that is.