Now that you mention authorial intention, I see how flawed Empire is. The original authorial intent in Star Wars is that Vader is not Lukes father. Clearly, they have used the wrong take in Empire, or otherwise the authorial intent wouldn't be a static entity that never changes.

Seriously, the movie was cut the way it was cut. There surely was an intetion behind it, or it would have been cut differently. There can only be a plothole if the things we see contradict each other, not if they contradict an intetion that may have changed between shooting and editing.