One: In Empire, when Han cuts open the tauntaun to save Luke, did he stuff Luke in it, or pull the guts out on top of Luke? I always thought he stuffed him in.
Second: In Star Wars 1, after they blow up the Death Star, a Y-wing flies away with Han and Luke. Who is this guy and where was he for the fight?
I used to have a book of scripts for the first 3 movies, and as I recall he did stuff him in. I don’t have it anymore though, so I can’t confirm.
Obviously Wedge Antilles was in the other X-Wing, but as far as I’m aware, the Y-Wing pilots that we saw in battle were all killed - mainly because we only saw the 3 that made the trench run. I don’t recall my old script book mentioning a name for this extra Y-Wing pilot.
Luke got stuffed.
Keyan Farlander. (From the book that came with the original X-wing flight simulator.)
Well, I hope they wiped their boots first, because once you get snow in there it’s impossible to get it out.
Keep in mind that we’re told that 30 rebel ships attacked the Death Star. However, we only see a good dozen or so guys - 3 Y-Wings and 8 or 9 X-Wings. So, presumably, there was another attack group asking as a distraction or something.
-Joe
Darn, I liked my own personal theory: it was some bright Imperial who saw the danger and snuck out in a ship they’d captured. “Yeah, I was with…Purple Squadron. We were…taking out the X-Wing launching bays. How ya doing? Some fight, huh?”
Heh, one of the X-Wing books has an Imperial officer in command of an orbiting defense platform over Coruscant (who happens to be the brother of the guy commanding the ISS Avenger, who had his throat crushed for letting the Millenium Falcon escape in the asteroid field near Hoth). What’s funny, is this guy is very loyal to the Empire, but knew a lost battle when he saw one. He was trying to decide whether or not he should engage a pair of Rebel star destroyers that had just entered orbit around Coruscant (a fight he’d lose), and the storm troopers under his command pointed out that he had the perfect excuse and opportunity to defect and suggested that he go ahead and do that (they didn’t want to die either)
I always figured that these were the guys with the blue insignias on their helmets. You see them taking off (in the ships with the slowly-closing canopies in the hangar) and then never see them again.
Yeah, in the novelization of the first movie, based on an earlier version of the script than used for the movie, four squadrons attacked the Death Star. Red and Green Squadrons acted as a diversion, and Blue and Gold Squadrons went in for the kill (Blue and Red get switched around for the movie).
Ok then, a fun one: A Gamorrean vs. a Wookie in cage fighting?
Why are changes like that made in movies? Can there be anything less important than whether Luke was Red Two or Blue Two?
Why change it?
-Joe
The blue turned invisible against the blue screen.
Yes, there were several disastrous crashes during production since the other stunt pilots could not see the blue ships. This was similar to the phenomenon which rendered referees invisible to football players during the era of black-and-white television.
Eventually an astute production assistant pointed out to Mr. Lucas that if the ships were repainted in a black-and-white “zebra” pattern they would appear “red all over” when viewed through monitors on set. A quick edit to the script changed the blue group to the red group and the production was saved. Years later, few people realize that this is the etymological basis for a well-known joke.
This is what reading too much Snopes will do to you.
Oops, that’s a good point. 
Now I’m trying to remember if there was a Green squadron in ROTJ, seeing as how they’d switched to green screens by then.
-Joe