C3PO and Lando and Chewie and Leia and R2D2 are trying to escape cloud city and get to the Millenium Falcon. They come to a locked door and Lando can’t open it because the security codes have been changed. C3PO tells R2D2 to try to talk to the computer and open it, but R2D2 gets electrocuted because C3PO can’t tell the difference between a computer terminal and an electrical socket. So then they walk around to another door, R2D2 interfaces with it, the door opens, and they walk out and the Millenium Falcon is sitting there on the landing platform. As far as we can see there is no other way to get to the ship except by the platform and that door. So why were they trying to go out the other door earlier? If they had successfully gotten through, they wouldn’t have been at the right platform to find the Falcon.
a wizard did it
There was more than one Millennium Falcon
It’s been a long time since I saw the movie, but wasn’t Lando conspiring with Darth Vader? So I think the first door was a deliberate roadblock, so that they would end up going through the right door that led to the Millennium Falcon.
no, by this time, Lando was no longer cooperating with Darth Vader and was really trying to help Leia and then escape
The valet parker saw that their way was blocked, so helpfully brought the ca…the spaceship around to the other landing.
Its unclear whether Lando tipped well or not. Yet another thing in the movies that George Lucas messed up.
In the original version of the movie, R2D2 realized it was the wrong door and sent an electric shock through it to seal it off.
Then Lucas decided to edit the movie so the door electrocuted R2D2 first.
but I was watching the laserdisc version, before Lucas changed anything
Hrm. Any chance they didn’t know exactly what platform they were looking for?
Are we sure that first door was to the/a landing platform? Could it have been just a regular door leading to a shorter passageway?
R2 shot first!
Little Nemo’s pulling your leg. He’s referring to the “Han Shot First” change to Star Wars.
You’d think so.
Common complaints about Star Wars movies often come down to the watcher not actually bothering to pay attention to what’s actually happening on the screen.
They’re in what’s basically a gigantic building. They try to go Route A, but it’s blocked. So they go a different way. PLOT HOLE!!!
Has the OP never actually encountered a detour sign while driving? A “Caution Wet Floor” sign in a hallway? The orange metal barriers are Home Depot blocking off an aisle?
-Joe
To be fair, if I was running the Empire detachment that was sent to Cloud City, the first thing I would have done would have been to seize the Millennium Falcon and ship it up to the Star Destroyer in orbit for safe keeping. Would have made a heck of a trophy to capture one of the ships involved in destruction of the Death Star, seeming as how the Empire had to give away Han to Jabba.
At the very least, I also would have put some stormtroopers out on guard duty on on the landing pad. Sure they can’t shoot straight, but it would have made the escape a little more hairy than it was.
this is clearly a bot set to autorespond to a PSXer movie thread.
Wait, it was PSXer who saw the movie? Not his friend?
Winner!
I watched it with some friends, but not the friend who is so famously referenced in many of my posts
They tried that in the first movie. A lunatic escapee in a cape was able to hotwire the Death Star’s security system to allow the Falcon to escape.
Brilliant! But what was behind the third door?
Stranger
A mule. Now supposing R2 revealed that there was a mule behind one of the doors they didn’t pick – what is the probability that Lando and C3PO should switch doors in order to find the Millenium Falcon?