Lord Haseo although I will agree that Empire Has a more intricate and complicated plot when it comes to Pacing that out…
Let’s look at Empires Pacing.
Empire does pace faster than Star wars and John Doom here a member summed it up pretty well. That it keeps on presenting a new danger or threat just when you think the characters are out of trouble a new threat or danger rears it’s ugly head.
This is very well executed and works Amazingly well but it also does not know when to stop… Causing a problem of not knowing when to slow down a bit for it’s own good. Especially as we have been talking in your other thread about this issue. It is a well known common complaint of both How long did Luke spend on Dagobah and How long did the Falcon take to get to Bespin.
Star Wars does not have issues of this nature it flows it speeds up and it slows down for it’s own good and when things really heat up it goes absolutely ballistic.