Small giant explosions & ghost commandos

What I wonder about when I see the battle of endor, is that when they blow up the shield generator it looks like the explosion is big enough to wipe out half the forrest, but han and Leia etc. are just hidding behind a tree. I mean what is that!!!

And how about those Ghost commando soldiers Han, Leia and Luke bring with them? In the beginning, before they meet the imperials, it seems like there is a small group of about 20 soldiers, but when Han. Luke, and chewie walk into the ewok net-trap, they have vanished, were are the soldiers now? Then our heroes join the tribe of ewoks and the soldiers are still missing, but when they attack the imperial bunker there are suddenly about 5 or 6 soldiers helping our heroes, but when the Imperial division is attacked by the ewoks I can't seem to find the soldiers.

Have I gone blind or does anyone else wonder about this to?

 

I believe the back entrance to the bunker is pretty far away from the actual shield generator.


And those commandos disappear when Han sends them away to "meet at 0800 at the bunker", before the heroes go searching for Leia
so of course they're back at the bunker as they were told
they're off-camera for most of the battle because they're not important

 

"I believe the back entrance to the bunker is pretty far away from the actual shield generator."

That's some trule wonderous explosives then, How can the explosion go off far away from where Han places the detonations?

 

Simple, the explosion caused the power generator to explode, which would probably result in a nice explosion.

 

About the shield generator explosion, all I know is Han does one of the goofiest runs in history there.

 

Everytime I see that part where he's running towards the camera I think of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when he's running from the natives. The only think missing is the Fedora, and lots of dust behind him!

 

Han was protected by that huge pane of glass behind him.

 

You're right, sith_rising. It does look like that. All hail Harrison Ford, the "King of the Goofy Run". In Jedi, though, Ford seems particularly out of shape during that little sprint.

Something goofy about his exit-stage-right thing he does at the end of the scene. too.

 

"That's some trule wonderous explosives then, How can the explosion go off far away from where Han places the detonations?"

I mean that only the entrance is far away. Between the room where they plant the charges and the entrance might be a nice long set of hallways. You just don't see them going all the way, just as you don't see Han climbing out of the AT-ST to sneak up on the reinforcements.
It's not just a doorway. It wouldn't be very secret if it's just around the corner of the real thing.

 

"What happens when you detonate a spherical metal honeycomb over five hundred miles wide just above the atmosphere of a habitable world? Regardless of specifics, the world won't remain habitable for long."

Endor Holocaust!

 

Something goofy about his exit-stage-right thing he does at the end of the scene. too.

That always used to get to me, too. Why pause for an extra second so we can see him move? It was only after many years that I realized the next action we see, Akbar moving in his chair, is sort of a continuation on Han's move. My guess is Marquand didn't know how best to get from one scene to the next without it feeling jumpy, so he cut on action. Still kind of odd, though.