CT Things you never noticed in the CT.

Vader was just trying to follow social distancing etiquette.

 

I watched Empire again last night. The new transfer is so clear and sharp. Empire never looked so good. The CGI footage blends much better with the original footage than it did in the 2011 BluRays. It all flows so much better when additions don’t standout so much.

Because of that a CGI shot of Bespin really caught my eye. It’s a shot of a cloud car flying through Cloud City that leads to Leia and Han’s talk in the apartment they are staying in with the line from Leia “Then you’re as good as gone.” And Chewie brings in a blasted C-3PO.

So the wide shot following the cloud car has a couple things I never notices. There are lots of green spaces, little parks and courtyards in cloud city. And parked on a landing pad is a Starspeeder 3000 from Starh Tours or very similar spacecraft. Never noticed it before.

 

It’s my understanding after the Death Star was destroyed the Rebels immediately begin an evacuation of the base. As part of that other Rebel groups traveled to Yavin to assist with the evacuation and provide defense. Those pilots at the end just arrived and weren’t there for the battle. A few hours after the ceremony the Rebels are gone from Yavin.

 

In ROTJ, when they are all captured by Ewoks, when Han says to the leader, "point that thing somewhere else" (he is referring to the spear) you can see luke trying to cover up a laugh. idk if this is an unseen blooper or what.

 

Might’ve been a blooper. Mark is known to have a bit of a wild imagination.

 

Wow, really good points here...

 

I've always believed that was deliberate. Luke should find it hilarious that his super-cool bad-@$$ buddy is helpless against pint-sized teddy bears with pointy sticks.

 

I still can't see it, is it the box on the back of his belt?

 

yes. That’s it. That’s the grappling hook on the left, the line is in the box.

 

I never knew until recently that EV-9D9, the droid in Jabba's palace who runs the droid torture chamber place, has a female personality.

 

Cool, thanks, yes I can see the hook now, facing upwards. I wonder if that is Mark Hamill in there.

 

True. Also I noticed that ESB is when the concept of cloaking devices is introduced, with "No ship that small has a cloaking device!" half an hour later. Which implies cloaking devices are only on big ships. And we don't actually see any get used, they just get name-dropped once and forgotten.

So I wonder if perhaps the implication may have been that Star Destroyers, being big ships, have cloaking devices and the original Hoth attack plan was something like "jump in beyond sensor range, then cloak, and then approach closer".

(Yes, I know that subsequent canon conflicts with this, but I'm wondering if that was maybe the thinking circa 1980.)

 

It's also possible that he thought back all those years and realized he had chosen the wrong words for Anakin and what he tells Luke is the same thing, but more gentler.

 

Or perhaps he realized he himself had been attached to things like "democracy" and "the Republic".

 

I noticed last time I watched ESB that Rieekan’s quote about “it’s a good bet the Empire knows we’re here” is such a logical statement but unbeknownst to him it’s a bet he came very close to losing if Vader hadn’t personally intervened.

 

Dammit Vader

 

I somehow only recently noticed that Harrison ford has a bent nose and a scar on his chin. Also I only recently noticed the restraining bolts on the droids, or found out what they were. The inconsistencies of Luke's uncle not recognising Threepio and Threpio not being sure what planet he's on (despite being back in his old house on the planet where he was created according to the Prequels) are also things that I only recently noticed. Also, something that came to my attention recently is that Bossk wears an actual RAF flight suit, namely a windak high altitude pressure suit. A space man appears in the cantina scene with the same suit, and apparently the same suit features in at least one old Doctor Who episode.

 

3P0 didn't recognize Tatooine because his memory was wiped at the end of RotS.

 

Memory erasure? That takes prequel hatred to extremes...

 

Havent you seen Episode III ?

 

I've never noticed that before. This is funny ...

 

Watching TESB recently I just realized that the same Echo Base Rebel manning one of the tripod machine guns gets blasted 2 times, from different angles, possibly 3 times. Twice when a dish gun gets destroyed and then also one of the towers.

 

An armature pole attached to the model?

 

Hmm...there's a color code thing going on in ROTJ.

Luke and his father, their last exchange.

That grey triangle in the middle of Luke's chest, like a lapel. Grey inside black.

That's Anakin's face. That color. And it's next to Luke's heart.

The color has to do with his father's skin not receiving any light.

Then he sees Luke and is seen by him. Go, my sun.
(Those twin suns. Also, the same in TFA. The bridge scene. The sun/son is drained and then Kylo kills Han)