Was Luke using bad tactics at the Battle of Hoth?

[Chris OFarrell]

The trenches are safer than being silhouetted against a snowfield, and if those stormtroopers do come out of the AT-AT, they die to fire from the trench. Because of this, there is no need to go after them whatsoever. As for the trench, I'd rather be in a foxhole than up on a flat, white surface yelling "Here I am! Please shoot me!"

Packed snow and dirt may stop a bullet, not a blaster bolt from an AT-AT.

Actualy you can see many times in Empire Rebel troops ducking into trenches to avoid incomming fire and said trenches protecting the rebels quite well. The AT-AT were either unable or unwilling to simply blast the rebels out of their trenches, so there was hardly any reason for the troops to break cover and run for the downed walker.

In fact in a later sceen, in the background, you can see a trio of troops running across the snow towards a forward trench and drawing fire from the walkers for doing so.

[Kurgan]

Basically if you want all that stuff either go online and look it up (a few sites have it) or go buy the "Star Wars: Behind the Magic" CD-rom (which rocks & was very cheap). Seriously though, they should revamp that product on DVD and release it as a stand alone thing you can buy.

Hey, it worked for the Matrix (Matrix Revisited), and saves having to buy a whole new set just for some more extras in the future if they want to add 'em.

And yes, the battle of Hoth is the same in this version as in the Special Edition as far as I can tell. No new battle scenes.

I must apologize. I checked my BTM discs again and I guess it's been so long I forgot that they ONLY include the ANH deleted scenes, nothing about ESB or ROTJ. I downloaded all those clips, including the one with Threepio ripping the "danger" sign off the Wampa room off some website, but I can't for the life of me remember the link, nor do I still have the files anymore. But, that said it shouldn't be impossible to find them again...

I also noticed that the 1998 Behind the Magic disc (in the "scene by scene" of ANH) features the quote about the outdated "only one Dark Lord of the Sith at a time" thing.

Edit: Found the site. It's Starwarz.com (http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/cut_scenes/ep4/). Though of course the scenes that aren't found on BTM CD are basically found in the various trailers, which ARE on the DVD's. So essentially we have all the scenes that have been publically released, at least it looks that way...

[Sonnenburg]

Perhaps they were making sure that the troopers couldn't cut the cable and free the walker?