10 Most Pointless Changes To The Star Wars Movies You Never Even Noticed

8. Vader Landing On His Star Destroyer - The Empire Strikes Back

Luke's escaped his grasp and Lando's deserted Cloud City, sending the populace into panic while freeing Leia and Chewbacca. Naturally, Darth Vader's a bit perturbed. He angrily storms out of the station's bowels and grows for his troops to "Bring my shuttle" (later changed in an extended version of the scene to "Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival"). The next time we see him he's back in the Executor, ready to ensnare the damaged Millennium Falcon.

Lucas clearly thought that Vader heading to a shuttle and later being seen on his Super Star Destroyer just didn't make clear enough what he'd just done, because in 1997 he added in a pointless sequence detailing his Imperial Shuttle flying from Bespin.

In amongst the thrilling rescue of Luke, it's a totally unnecessary scene, filling the audience in on something they already know and ruining the reveal of the lambda-class craft ahead of its original debut in Episode VI.

What makes this addition particularly egregious is that to achieve the Star Destroyer's hangar on a budget, previously deleted Death Star footage from Return Of The Jedi was used, meaning the battle station's commander, Moff Jerjerrod, pops up in a continuity-busting cameo for no reason.