It also seems to me that Piett wasn't really at fault. The Hyperdrive was deactivated, and the fact that the Falcon didn't jump to light speed immediately bore testimony to this. Piett did his job. So Vader might have been contemplative and angry about other things, but unlike Needa and Ozel, Piett didn't directly fail.
Truthfully Vader should know the droids he grew up with when he sees them. Fussy Threepio and brainy R2D2. You can't miss those two in a crowd, even without Jedi insight.
@@jedsithor Vader let Piett live as a punishment. Sure, those before him were force choked to death for failing, but that doesn't seem to have incentivised anyone into "not-failing". Oh, no, Vader would kill him in his sleep. Maybe tonight, maybe next week.
@@jedsithorI know he is a space nazi but goddamn Needa’s death always makes me sad. He seems to be just about the only imperial officer with a backbone and sense of responsibility. I wish we got more stories of him.
Agreed. When I first saw TESB I wasn't surprised that Vader let Piett live at the end . The Falcon escape was Vader's failure. Remember that Piett confirms to Vader that everything is ready to capture the rebels. He followed orders in a competent way. Also, remember how a leader (Vader) who kills subordinates without a reason, just out of rage, will actually create worse subordinates - as no one has a reason to do his best if they can be randomly killed.
17:11 in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan hid from Jango and Boba by attaching his ship to an asteroid in Episode II. In the DVD bonus features, John Knoll states that this is how Boba knew that the Falcon must have attached itself to something (rather than thinking it cloaked or something), because Boba had seen that move before.
I think people forget that after Qui-Gon's death Yoda became more of Obi-Wan's mentor. So that would be twice Yoda is instructing him so it actually all made sense.
what we need to see (and never have) is Obiwan being instructed by Yoda. (Ben, to Luke: "You will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me" and (under his breath) "I still need to get around Yoda's stubbornness over this "he is too old to begin the training!" mentality....we're desperate and need anyone we can get. The son of skywalker is a good start').
According to Lucas, Yoda handled 90% or more of the Initiate instruction for centuries. That is where the "too old" stuff comes from. Yoda is supposed to give all these children an extremely through grounding in ethics and the basic skills. Anakin was problematic because Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan insisted on skipping that. It is what ruined him according to the guy who wrote all of this.
Also if you think about it at the end of The Phantom Menace and any other time Obi-Wan is consulting with Yoda that it is the same as instruction. Yoda is mentoring him as Qui-Gon would have done. It doesn't all have to be combat instruction to be guidance from a teacher.
Yeah, but I don't think that's canon anymore. Canon Vader and his Inquisitors don't seem to be able to sense the mere presence of nearby Force users, let alone ones in different star systems.
I bet Piet was thinking, "how has Vader not killed me yet" for the rest of his life after Empire. And knew one day Vader would remember how he had failed him and would force choke him.
@@jedsithor Vader may admit failure to the Emperor and take to full blame for said failure in the presence of the Emperor, but to ensure his subordinates don't see him as weak and to maintain fear among said subordinates, he will still find someone else to blame and likely kill them.
@@davidalan528 I do wonder if Piett could have chosen his death, would be preferred to be executed by Vader or killed in Battle by the rebels? I personally think the latter.
14:50 I love these moments where fans of a certain franchise spend so much time analysing these things when the real answer from the creator is just "it's not important". It's like when people have debated the meaning and symbolism of the album cover for Darkside of the Moon when the simple answer is just "it looks cool".
7:59 Also in Star Wars Resistance we have seen kylo Ren use Force abilities in the same way as Palpatine communication hologram. Questions that were not answered: Why could snow speeders destroy AT-ATs when they had fallen down.
Major mental gymnastics here, but maybe by that point the AT-AT was already shutdown due to the damage it would've sustained internally from falling over?
My guess seeing as they shot at the neck when it fell is that the neck of the at-at snapped when it fell leaving the already somewhat weak spot even more vulnerable
I always felt E chuta was something like "eat sh**", but if A chuta is a greeting it's hard to say. Although a hutt greeting could still reference refuse 😄
for "E Chuta" fans like to assume its the f-bomb or something but remember C-3PO is a very proper and fussy droid all about politeness and protocol so any amount of rudeness is scandalous to him, hence him always complaining about R2-D2's sassy attitude. So that silver droid saying "e chuta" could simply mean "whatever, dude" which is even funnier to me.
It’s funny to me how George Lucas just let Obi-Wan and Yoda interact with R2 a ton during the clone wars and prequels even though they don’t act like they remember him in the original trilogy, but meanwhile he was very very careful to make sure Anakin and Grievous never meet during the clone wars because of one line in ROTS lol
There's reasonable doubt for the Obi-Wan and Yoda scenes, but it's very clear that Grievous and Anakin had heard of each other and are meeting for the first time.
Is it me or I’m thinking too much? The dark side cave Luke went into looks like it was man made. It has that look like other hallways in the StarWars saga( on Bespin during the Vader fight.) You can clear as day see a concrete angle when enters the cave on Dagobah. I know it’s just a vision. I just didn’t know if there is any history too that cave?
We saw scenes in the PT of Yoda training an entire class of younglings, so it isn't weird to think Yoda could have trained Obi-Wan when he was a youngling as well.
In regards to “Why didn’t the Rebels fly away from the imperial fleet?” I always thought that was answered by Vader himself (when he was choking Ozzl) “Deploy the fleet so that NOTHING gets off the system.” I always took that to mean spread all the ships around the planet to stop them.
But does that line even need an explanation? Some kind of hell or underworld is included in most real world religions, yet nobody alive knows for sure if it is real. I imagine the same would also be true in the Star Wars galaxy.
Great video! A few observations 1. I know this is Legends, but so was wondering what you thought about the audio drama “Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell” by Brian Sibley (who also did the radio dramas). I always held those in higher regard among Legends material. 2. I am surprised you did not mention 3-PO in your comment about Vader stopping Boba Fett. I have heard (obviously retconned) that he wanted to stop his droid from being destroyed and this was an early sign of the real Anakin returning. 3. I always saw Vader sparing Piety as him just accepting that defeat was the will of the Force. Emotionally drained, he let Piett go knowing that unlike the others, Vader actually got his chance to confront Luke. No one was robbing him of that due to incompetence. So Piett lucked out.
Funny thing about 2 is that Vader building threepio was something that was drafted from the very beginning to even really late drafts of A New Hope. There's nothing that contradicts it in later installments either so it's not impossible (although probably unlikely) that that was the intention when that scene was written.
Another great video, thanks! On evacuating Hoth: A fleet orbiting overhead would be able to see ships launching and traveling slower through the atmosphere for plenty of time, and could much faster move to intercept them, whatever vector they chose to go into space. Once in space and confronted by the fleet, they would not yet be a safe enough distance from the planet to hyperspace (safely). On R2 playing along: R2-D2 was a bright droid that had been on countless Rebel missions. These often involve people using false identities, under cover, keeping various secrets, etc. Not privy to all the situations happening around them, any sensible Rebel droid would know not to speak up or say things without being spoken to. They wouldn't instantly say, "Hey it's our old friend Jack!" upon seeing them, for example. Lando's clothes: I suspect the real-world reason they had Lando dressed like that because the figure in the seat of the Falcon model clearly has a white shirt and black vest, so they needed to match the model. The Protostar: That's interesting! I thought it would have been cool to say it was the Rishi maze mentioned in Episode II - the dwarf galaxy just above the Star Wars galaxy.
The question I've always has was at the beginning, Vader says "That is the system. And I'm sure Skywalker is with them.". Okay, so, Vader knows who Luke Skywalker is.But in the updated version, Ian McDiarmid does the newer version where Palpatine tells Vader who Luke is. But wait! Vader already knew at the beginning of the movie! If Lucas had removed Vader's line "I'm sure Skywalker is with them", there wouldn't be a problem.I just think it's weird that NO ONE ever bring this issue up. It's the tyrannosaurus-in-the-room question, but I seem to be the only one asking it.
I can't remember if Han is a General in ESB or if it's not established until RotJ but I've always found it weird that he had a higher rank than Luke despite seemingly being less committed to the Rebel Alliance. Also very much enjoying these videos.
In the radio NPR story, Luke is Convoy Commander for that rebel fleet because as the group gets to Hoth, sets up the acting Commander is killed, asteroid.
I always imagined that Vader kept Piet alive because of Piet’s reaction to the Falcon going into hyperspace. He was completely shocked and dismayed. It seemed to me that Vader felt his shock and, coupled with his interaction with his son, realized Piet was not to blame and that maybe the force may be at work.
I love these videos (I love all of them guys) just because I can send them to people when they have questions instead of typing out 19 paragraphs (I’m gonna send the video and some how type 20 paragraphs instead)
Ozzel also conspired with an ISB agent to have Mara Jade killed as a cover up for his failures while she was still working for the Emperor. She couldn’t prove it, but asked Vader to keep an eye on him.
16:52 To be born with the force is to be born with fire in your hands, the question after that is what do with it, do you raise them up high and guide others through the darkness or do you bring them down to burn your foes, both are valid options, but how often you do one or the other can determine the kind of person you truly are.
In the Hoth battle, Luke says "That [AT-AT] armor is too strong for blasters", but after the tow cable idea brought down an At-AT, a rebel fighter shoots the AT-AT and it explodes. How did the armor suddenly become vulnerable to blasters?
Watch the battle again. Look closer and you’ll see the lead AT-AT is a different color than the rest of them. The lighter colored ones, including the two blown up, are more vulnerable. The darker one has the stronger armor.
@@nealwhaley63No, they aren't. The slightly different colors have no functional meaning. They blew up the first one by shooting it the neck after tripping it. It's as simple as that.
The key to the difference between the time Luke spends training on Dagobah and the others spend getting to Cloud City is relativistic time dilation. Time slows down for objects going close to the speed of light. Han, Chewie and Leia experienced a few days, maybe only a few hours on board the Falcon, while the rest of the universe, Luke and Yoda in particular, experienced a very minimum of six months, and probably more like two or three years. This also explains how Vader got there ahead of them and made his "deal" with Lando. Bobba Fett reported their course and speed, so Vader knew where to go and what to do in order to set up a situation that would call Luke to them. Things about places strong with the force having different times are just nonsense by people who have no understanding of physics.
i read somewhere that between hoth and bespin, it took han around 3 weeks to get to bespin on a backup class 40 hyperdrive. was a large hardcover book published around mid to late 2000s. might have been that picture book that explains alot of ships.
I thought Vader made a deal with Lando to not harm his friends. He still honoured that (not letting Boba Fett fire) as he knew carbonite was non-lethal and was the commit of payment to the Hutts.
"But what does he eat?" - the chef on Bespin. Processed paste through a straw. As a gourmet chef I'd say that's an insult so go tell him to pound sand. Oh, wait. >_>
I've never heard Lucas say anything about it, but EU storylines aside, I feel like Lobot was originally meant to represent Lando's conscience; his cinematic placement often right behind or beside Lando, everpresent with his mannerisms and facial expressions feeling like a patient, passive judgement. When Vader "changes the deal" in the carbonite scene, Lando looks at Lobot who side-eyes him, as you included that clip here. I think that really was the moment Lando had to admit to himself that the betrayal was a mistake and decide to help them escape, giving up everything he had in order to do so. If I could ask Lucas one question about his SW universe, it would be about this.
I like how the last shot of Empire is Luke and Leia looking at a protostar. It's poetic in that the protostar is the beginning of a new star being born. Which occurs after a a star goes supernova. Luke had just gone through a traumatic experience, but had recovered and was starting almost anew. It also ties into the title of the previous movie. A New Hope. Luke and Leia look upon this protostar as if the essence of the universe is reaffirming to them in its own cosmic way that THEY are the galaxy's new hope.
I like the scene in Lost Stars where Ciena thinks Vader's about to murder everyone on that bridge and then everyone is immensely confused and relieved when Vader just leaves.
8:00 I get tickled imaging Uncle Palps meeting with his executive motivational coach over Zoom in secret. It’s a Robot Chicken skit waiting to happen 😂
I think Obi-wan's line totally makes sense considering Luke is probably at a stage in his training that is comparable to a youngling, so Obi-wan's idea of what he means by "instructed" is "instructed in the most basic levels of Jedi training," in which case it was Yoda who originally instructed him, while Qui-gon later mentored him in the more advanced levels of Jedi training. It's like if you started a job and got trained by a guy named Yoda when you first started, then you eventually got promoted, and a guy named Qui-gon trained you in your new position. If a new guy named Luke starts working there, you might say to him, "You're going to be training with Yoda. He's the guy who trained me." You don't need to mention that Qui-gon later gave you further training.
The glaring omission is one of the funniest jokes in Star Wars but half of it is not translated from R2D2-speak: C3PO: Well look what happened to me. R2D2: [noises] C3PO: Of course I've looked better! The obvious implication is that R2D2, seeing C3PO in several pieces said "You've never looked better." C3PO,as so often, completely misses the point.
Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Even though he did also teach younglings, he never stopped teaching a Jedi as they progressed, even those who were Masters. There are many scenes establishing this in the prequels and other media - not only in the sense that he was the most respected voice on the Council but in literal sessions where Obi Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, and others were sitting with Yoda one on one to receive further personalized teaching and instruction. Yoda was wise in the ways of the Force. He was also the one who told Obi Wan about being a force ghost and that Qui Gonn would be visiting him to teach him more. That is why Qui Gonn appears in the Kenobi series.
Ord Mantell was first introduced in the Star Wars radio drama, which was a series of stories taking place between A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back. That particular story, which describes the encounter with the bounty hunter in detail, was released as a vinyl album and cassette just after Empire hit theaters.
I have a few questions: 1. Why didn't Han, Leia, and Chewie not know they had flown into the guts of the giant worm when they entered that cave on the asteroid for concealment? 2. What took them so long to realize they were inside a giant creature and not a cave? 3. As for Luke's prosthetic arm, should he feel pain after it gets activated when that needle on a finger touched his palm, or is that a remnant of a nerve ending from when Luke had an organic arm before it cut off during his lightsaber duel w/his Dad? 4. Did Mark Hamill have a stunt double to do that slide from the pilon to the guts of that room to the hatch that then ended up having Luke hanging by one arm of Cloud City? 5. How could the Imperial Destroyer not know that the Millennium Falcon was attached to the rear of the command "island" on the ship? 6. What is Yoda's race or species name?
Really fantastic piece! I saw Star Wars in the theaters when I had just turned 6 years old, and the experience made me fall in love with movies (particularly sci-fi). I would go on to see Empire Strikes Back 19 times in the cinema! Quick Question: in book of Boba Fett, how does Fett gain 75 pounds and age 40 years, while starving to death in the desert?
I'm just reading FACPOV for Empire and the exogorth also loves the fact that these humans are living inside it, so it expends a lot of its resources createing a habitable place for them.
I've always thought that Needa handled his situation in the worst way. He should have just immediately contacted Vader from his bridge with exactly what happened because it had just happened, sound very urgent and busy because he was in the middle of a situation of utmost importance, that they couldn't have just disappeared, add his technical know how of cloaking devices, that they were currently running scans and searching, and if he had any alternate suggestions for how they should proceed. This may not have saved his neck, but it would have showed his determination and at least he wouldn't have been damn near asking to be killed.
I took Piett's survival to mean Vader sensed that R2 had reactivated the Falcon's hyperdrive and that Piett was not to blame, unlike Needa and Ozzel who had blundered in their responsibilities.
On Lando's closet.. I can't say for sure, but I always imagined (since the disguise used in Solo was still there for Lando to use in RotJ) that Han never redecorated anything and was actually wearing Lando's clothes the whole time. Just picking and choosing darker pieces.
Couldn’t the imperial fleet target the shield generator and bombard it like Thrawn did with his fleet during the battle of Atollon? Vader has been shown to be a great tactician. He is the supreme commander of his imperial fleet after all.
Vader ordered Captain Piet to make ready to land the troops and "deploy the fleet, so that nothing gets off the system" before promoting him to Admiral. That's why every which direction the rebel ships were going there was bound to be a star destroyer in the way.
Kind of odd wording about Hell in this answer. A belief in Hell, or even a colloquial mention of the concept, doesn't imply that there is an actual realm of Hell. Just like it doesn't when mentioned in our own reality. At most it implies a current or former belief in one.
I never really understood why "hell" needed an explanation, considering the concept of an underworld of some kind is common enough on Earth that it'll be understood in a broad sense by almost anyone. Even in a faraway galaxy, it never felt like a surprise that the same concept would exist among conscious beings who can die.
I think Vader hated the excuses and insubordination more than he hated the failures, Piett wasn't insubordinate and offered no excuses prompting a solid act of discipline but being left alive to learn from his mistakes.
28:32 I want to say that it was CineFix or one of their ilk who did a great break down on ST:EST. The writer a great reasoning on why Vader goes threw Generals left, right and center up to that point of the movie, changing how I see Vader at the end.
Its funny you dont think the Wampa 02:30 hanging Luke up side down is a thing meant to think about, while at the same time think the expression "See you in H3ll" 01:48 is something worth overanalysing when its an globally known reference-expression everyone watching the movie will understand, unlike "making the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs". The closest to hell in Star Wars original Trilogy would be the Sarlacc stomach where you are digested for several thousands of years in a limbo of h3ll.
I certainly don't want to come off as a snot, and I bow to your SW knowledge! But Chaos is not synonymous with Tartarus, Chaos is the primorsdial void from which Uranus and Gaia, sky and earth, emerged.
17:17 Boba Fett learned this trick from Obi Wan in Attack of the Clones. Jango and Boba are in pursuit of Obi Wan outside of Geonosis. Jango fires a heat seeking missile at Obi Wan, who jettisons his spare parts to distract the missile and hides on an astroid (mirroring Hans tick on the star destroyer). Jango, believing hes terminated Obi Wan, descends into Geonosis, unaware of Obi Wan who follows him.
A question I have is: Could Luke have saved Vader? If he was aware of Force Healing, could he have kept his father alive long enough to get him to a Bacta tank in RotJ? Sure, he was weak from his fight but if the Force wills something it'll happen.
Regarding the flight path taken when leaving Hoth: the Rebel base had two main components available for their planetary defense strategy; the shield.... and the ion cannon. The ships could leave in any direction they like, obviously, but if they wanted the massive ion cannon blasts to keep their path clear, the fleet would have to leave the Hoth system via a pretty narrow vector. I always assumed this was the main reason they didn't take the "just ride the Eagles to Mt. DOOaM and throw the ring in," route around the other side of the planet
That's true, but the Empire would've also blocked any other safe hyperspace lanes (if there even were any others). If there was a completely clear alternate route available, they wouldn't have needed to use the ion cannon in the first place.
Also on that last one, I always thought that Luke and Leia had moved the rebel base to a place outside of the galaxy. But a newly forming star system also does make sense for a base location. It certainly won't draw anyone for any kind of historical sentiment.
The reason Vader didn't kill Piett is very simple: Piett didn't screw up. He did his job properly and well. He can hardly be blamed if the rebels fixed the hyperdrive. Also, Vader doesn't waste effort. At that moment, he had lost, he knew he had lost, and I think in that moment, he closed the door on it and began thinking of the future.
The Wampa had the upside down Luke's feet frozen to suspend him at the top of the cave. His feet were frozen. But he used his light saber to thaw the ice around his feet to free him. But his feet would still have been frozen. How was he able to stand and then run with numb and frozen feet?
Ha, yeah I ran through this in my head. I get thawing the ice but it happens almost instantly. My conclusion was it’s just entertainment, watching Luke carefully thawing and warming his feet would have been ridiculous
Here’s my lifelong question. How did they land the Imperial Walkers onto Hoth while the shield generator was still up? I mean they somehow landed on Hoth before shield was down which they eventually destroyed? 😮
Hmm...From Vader's dialog previous in the movie, did not the Empire land their forces *outside* the shields coverage and have to "fight their way in"? That "fight in" was why the walkers were dropped down to the planet.
Considering we've been shown in the Mandalorian season three that there is some level of travel time in hyperspace with Din, Sleeping during the flight from his clan's enclave to Navarro. luke's flight to Dagobah was probably only a few hours in universe, It's during his time in hyperspace that we see Han and Leia Perspective and the entire time he's on Dagaba is during their flight to Cloud City.
@@jedsithor From a viewer's perspective it doesn't look like it took too long. considering the Millennium Falcon has to follow the hyperspace routes to Alderaan
I always felt that after learning of Rogue 1, Luke could consider himself the last member of that team. After all, he was the one who received the plans they died to retrieve. He's the one who made sure the plans got to the Rebel Alliance, and he's the one who ultimately made sure those plans were put to good use by blowing up the Death Star. It was very fitting then that he would name his flight group Rogue Squadron in their honor.
Luke's "Failure in the Cave" is foreshadowing that there's a connection to Vader and that in order to defeat Vader he cannot give in to fear and hate since that will be a path to the dark side and his downfall (i.e. What the Emperor probably wants)
Why did the rebels flee through the empire fleet and not away from it? 10:33 Hello? This is not Disney Star Wars where you can hyperspace skip throug planets. Also, being in orbit in space gives you the advantage of fast orbit in speeds you can never reach on any planet surface where the atmosphere slows you down and gravity pulls on you. The Rebels had no way to flee in another direction but through the Empire fleet even if they flew to the other side of the planet.
I never had a problem with the way they had Vader let Admiral Piett live, and don’t agree with those who assumed he killed him later until he showed up again in Return of the Jedi. For a small role they had a great actor in Kenneth Colley (he was great as the lead in “Measure For Measure” in the BBC’s complete works of Shakespeare) and the nuances of his reactions, first to when Vader is killing Admiral Ozzell in front of him and then when he’s clearly expecting the same fate until Vader just walks away, are brilliant here. Plus it’s pretty clear that Ozzel’s offense was a lot greater, as Piett did everything he was supposed to do until R2 saved the day. Ozzell, as clumsy as he was stupid, acted as he did because he was convinced the rebels were not on Hoth, and was even continuing to contradict Vader after he told him they were.
Vader was in his Pod when one of the officers enttered his chambers and it wasnt completely closed when Vader had his helmet off and the officer watched through one off the openings as his helmet was lowered downward. How was this possible?
for "E Chuta" fans like to assume its the f-bomb or something but remember C-3PO is a very proper and fussy droid all about politeness and protocol so any amount of rudeness is scandalous to him, hence him always complaining about R2-D2's sassy attitude. So that silver droid saying "e chuta" could simply mean "whatever, dude" which is even funnier to me.
obiwan learned as a young padawan from Yoda. We see that in Phantom Menace, he's teaching Jedi classes, when Obiwan rocks up to ask about the Kamino system not being where is should be according to the Jedi archive star-charts.
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It also seems to me that Piett wasn't really at fault. The Hyperdrive was deactivated, and the fact that the Falcon didn't jump to light speed immediately bore testimony to this. Piett did his job. So Vader might have been contemplative and angry about other things, but unlike Needa and Ozel, Piett didn't directly fail.
Truthfully Vader should know the droids he grew up with when he sees them. Fussy Threepio and brainy R2D2. You can't miss those two in a crowd, even without Jedi insight.
@@jedsithor Vader let Piett live as a punishment. Sure, those before him were force choked to death for failing, but that doesn't seem to have incentivised anyone into "not-failing". Oh, no, Vader would kill him in his sleep. Maybe tonight, maybe next week.
@@jedsithorI know he is a space nazi but goddamn Needa’s death always makes me sad. He seems to be just about the only imperial officer with a backbone and sense of responsibility. I wish we got more stories of him.
Agreed. When I first saw TESB I wasn't surprised that Vader let Piett live at the end . The Falcon escape was Vader's failure. Remember that Piett confirms to Vader that everything is ready to capture the rebels. He followed orders in a competent way. Also, remember how a leader (Vader) who kills subordinates without a reason, just out of rage, will actually create worse subordinates - as no one has a reason to do his best if they can be randomly killed.
17:11 in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan hid from Jango and Boba by attaching his ship to an asteroid in Episode II. In the DVD bonus features, John Knoll states that this is how Boba knew that the Falcon must have attached itself to something (rather than thinking it cloaked or something), because Boba had seen that move before.
good catch
you got it :)
I think people forget that after Qui-Gon's death Yoda became more of Obi-Wan's mentor. So that would be twice Yoda is instructing him so it actually all made sense.
what we need to see (and never have) is Obiwan being instructed by Yoda. (Ben, to Luke: "You will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me" and (under his breath) "I still need to get around Yoda's stubbornness over this "he is too old to begin the training!" mentality....we're desperate and need anyone we can get. The son of skywalker is a good start').
According to Lucas, Yoda handled 90% or more of the Initiate instruction for centuries. That is where the "too old" stuff comes from. Yoda is supposed to give all these children an extremely through grounding in ethics and the basic skills. Anakin was problematic because Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan insisted on skipping that. It is what ruined him according to the guy who wrote all of this.
So, in other words, What Obi-Wan told Luke was true... from a certain point of view!
I never thought it didn’t make sense. Some people seem to want to find issue with everything
Also if you think about it at the end of The Phantom Menace and any other time Obi-Wan is consulting with Yoda that it is the same as instruction. Yoda is mentoring him as Qui-Gon would have done.
It doesn't all have to be combat instruction to be guidance from a teacher.
A version of the Robot Chicken dinner sketch is absolutely canon to me.
My friend likes how Chewie lifts his dinner plate 🍽. Lol
Lando: Who has two thumbs and betrayed his best friend? This guy!
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Lucy Lawless on the Simpsons said it best "Well anytime you notice something like that, a wizard did it"
Yoda also uses the dark side cave to mask his light side presence from what i remember reading.
Yeah, but I don't think that's canon anymore. Canon Vader and his Inquisitors don't seem to be able to sense the mere presence of nearby Force users, let alone ones in different star systems.
Yes, Dagobah is very dark side heavy - the whole planet, but the cave itself is no doubt the source, so yeah! That's why.
I bet Piet was thinking, "how has Vader not killed me yet" for the rest of his life after Empire. And knew one day Vader would remember how he had failed him and would force choke him.
@@jedsithor Vader may admit failure to the Emperor and take to full blame for said failure in the presence of the Emperor, but to ensure his subordinates don't see him as weak and to maintain fear among said subordinates, he will still find someone else to blame and likely kill them.
Well, consolation, it was a short trip from Bespin to getting merc'd by an A-wing at Endor.
@@davidalan528 I do wonder if Piett could have chosen his death, would be preferred to be executed by Vader or killed in Battle by the rebels? I personally think the latter.
Vader is walking down a long corridor when he suddenly stops. _"Oh, yeah..."_
Cut to: Piet is on the can, pinching out a loaf, and suddenly dies.
@@NarwahlGaming LOL
Random addition: the Star Wars trilogy arcade game also features the scene where you fight the Wampas in echo base!
Probably my favorite arcade game. Got a few high scores in my day.
14:50 I love these moments where fans of a certain franchise spend so much time analysing these things when the real answer from the creator is just "it's not important". It's like when people have debated the meaning and symbolism of the album cover for Darkside of the Moon when the simple answer is just "it looks cool".
7:59 Also in Star Wars Resistance we have seen kylo Ren use Force abilities in the same way as Palpatine communication hologram. Questions that were not answered: Why could snow speeders destroy AT-ATs when they had fallen down.
Kinda similar to how we see in Rogue One, the necks of the AT-ATs were not armored, so if they aimed for that, it could destroy the entire vehicle
Major mental gymnastics here, but maybe by that point the AT-AT was already shutdown due to the damage it would've sustained internally from falling over?
The neck is a weak area, but they could only get a clear shot at it after toppling it.
They explain why in the movie so i guess that's not why he covered it.
My guess seeing as they shot at the neck when it fell is that the neck of the at-at snapped when it fell leaving the already somewhat weak spot even more vulnerable
The game Battefront: Renegade Squadron also shows the events on Ord Mantel.
Different events?
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о Possibly, but the game involves fighting bounty hunters with Han.
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о No because legnds cannon was a contradictory shitstorm they are both the same single event
dont think it is cannon anymore, but yea, the bounty hunter that was there was IG-88
I always felt E chuta was something like "eat sh**", but if A chuta is a greeting it's hard to say. Although a hutt greeting could still reference refuse 😄
to me it sounded like "idiot(a)", so my interpretation is just that it means idiot
for "E Chuta" fans like to assume its the f-bomb or something but remember C-3PO is a very proper and fussy droid all about politeness and protocol so any amount of rudeness is scandalous to him, hence him always complaining about R2-D2's sassy attitude. So that silver droid saying "e chuta" could simply mean "whatever, dude" which is even funnier to me.
It means "you're mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
"e chuta bantha poodoo!' (putting it more politely?).
Yeah that’s how I always interpreted it.
Deus ex mach-Kenobi… 😂
Thank you Alex for making this labor of love!
It’s funny to me how George Lucas just let Obi-Wan and Yoda interact with R2 a ton during the clone wars and prequels even though they don’t act like they remember him in the original trilogy, but meanwhile he was very very careful to make sure Anakin and Grievous never meet during the clone wars because of one line in ROTS lol
There's reasonable doubt for the Obi-Wan and Yoda scenes, but it's very clear that Grievous and Anakin had heard of each other and are meeting for the first time.
Yoda was not the only being to return to Dagobah after experiencing the Dark side cave visions.
Luke did it too, in Return of the Jedi
Is it me or I’m thinking too much? The dark side cave Luke went into looks like it was man made. It has that look like other hallways in the StarWars saga( on Bespin during the Vader fight.) You can clear as day see a concrete angle when enters the cave on Dagobah. I know it’s just a vision. I just didn’t know if there is any history too that cave?
We saw scenes in the PT of Yoda training an entire class of younglings, so it isn't weird to think Yoda could have trained Obi-Wan when he was a youngling as well.
In regards to “Why didn’t the Rebels fly away from the imperial fleet?” I always thought that was answered by Vader himself (when he was choking Ozzl) “Deploy the fleet so that NOTHING gets off the system.” I always took that to mean spread all the ships around the planet to stop them.
I just watched Empire over the weekend and had some of these questions! How convenient! Great work!
Why did Yoda betray Ashoka’s trust when she needed the Jedi’s help the most?
Every time I watch this movie I’m always thrown of by the “I’ll see you in hell” line from solo
But does that line even need an explanation? Some kind of hell or underworld is included in most real world religions, yet nobody alive knows for sure if it is real. I imagine the same would also be true in the Star Wars galaxy.
If you watch the DVD version of the CW episode Rookies, one of the clones yells “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!” after Cutup gets devoured by the Rishi eel.
they speak english and everybody acts surprised at the mention of "hell"
@@tinand69420 It’s more to do with the theological implications of that in the Star Wars universe really.
Disney needs to make a spinoff of the "ghost adventures of Han Solo in Hell"-
where he teams up with that random guy and they're force ghosts LOL
Great video! A few observations
1. I know this is Legends, but so was wondering what you thought about the audio drama “Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell” by Brian Sibley (who also did the radio dramas). I always held those in higher regard among Legends material.
2. I am surprised you did not mention 3-PO in your comment about Vader stopping Boba Fett. I have heard (obviously retconned) that he wanted to stop his droid from being destroyed and this was an early sign of the real Anakin returning.
3. I always saw Vader sparing Piety as him just accepting that defeat was the will of the Force. Emotionally drained, he let Piett go knowing that unlike the others, Vader actually got his chance to confront Luke. No one was robbing him of that due to incompetence. So Piett lucked out.
Funny thing about 2 is that Vader building threepio was something that was drafted from the very beginning to even really late drafts of A New Hope. There's nothing that contradicts it in later installments either so it's not impossible (although probably unlikely) that that was the intention when that scene was written.
Another great video, thanks!
On evacuating Hoth: A fleet orbiting overhead would be able to see ships launching and traveling slower through the atmosphere for plenty of time, and could much faster move to intercept them, whatever vector they chose to go into space. Once in space and confronted by the fleet, they would not yet be a safe enough distance from the planet to hyperspace (safely).
On R2 playing along: R2-D2 was a bright droid that had been on countless Rebel missions. These often involve people using false identities, under cover, keeping various secrets, etc. Not privy to all the situations happening around them, any sensible Rebel droid would know not to speak up or say things without being spoken to. They wouldn't instantly say, "Hey it's our old friend Jack!" upon seeing them, for example.
Lando's clothes: I suspect the real-world reason they had Lando dressed like that because the figure in the seat of the Falcon model clearly has a white shirt and black vest, so they needed to match the model.
The Protostar: That's interesting! I thought it would have been cool to say it was the Rishi maze mentioned in Episode II - the dwarf galaxy just above the Star Wars galaxy.
The question I've always has was at the beginning, Vader says "That is the system. And I'm sure Skywalker is with them.". Okay, so, Vader knows who Luke Skywalker is.But in the updated version, Ian McDiarmid does the newer version where Palpatine tells Vader who Luke is. But wait! Vader already knew at the beginning of the movie! If Lucas had removed Vader's line "I'm sure Skywalker is with them", there wouldn't be a problem.I just think it's weird that NO ONE ever bring this issue up. It's the tyrannosaurus-in-the-room question, but I seem to be the only one asking it.
The entire time you were talking about the dinner I kept saying Robot chicken, robot chicken. Glad you threw it in.
In A New Hope, Uncle Owen tells Aunt Beru (about Luke) "...there'll be hell to pay."
I can't remember if Han is a General in ESB or if it's not established until RotJ but I've always found it weird that he had a higher rank than Luke despite seemingly being less committed to the Rebel Alliance.
Also very much enjoying these videos.
In the radio NPR story, Luke is Convoy Commander for that rebel fleet because as the group gets to Hoth, sets up the acting Commander is killed, asteroid.
You should do one of these for every theatrically released movie. The prequels, sequels, in betweens, and even the clone wars movie.
I always imagined that Vader kept Piet alive because of Piet’s reaction to the Falcon going into hyperspace. He was completely shocked and dismayed. It seemed to me that Vader felt his shock and, coupled with his interaction with his son, realized Piet was not to blame and that maybe the force may be at work.
I love these videos (I love all of them guys) just because I can send them to people when they have questions instead of typing out 19 paragraphs (I’m gonna send the video and some how type 20 paragraphs instead)
Ozzel also conspired with an ISB agent to have Mara Jade killed as a cover up for his failures while she was still working for the Emperor.
She couldn’t prove it, but asked Vader to keep an eye on him.
Prompts to mentioning the robot chicken cloud city dinner. Hilarious. “This deal is getting worse by the minute” 😂😂😂
16:52 To be born with the force is to be born with fire in your hands, the question after that is what do with it, do you raise them up high and guide others through the darkness or do you bring them down to burn your foes, both are valid options, but how often you do one or the other can determine the kind of person you truly are.
With great power must always come....wait, wrong franchise. No less true, though.
In the Hoth battle, Luke says "That [AT-AT] armor is too strong for blasters", but after the tow cable idea brought down an At-AT, a rebel fighter shoots the AT-AT and it explodes. How did the armor suddenly become vulnerable to blasters?
They went for the neck.
Watch the battle again. Look closer and you’ll see the lead AT-AT is a different color than the rest of them. The lighter colored ones, including the two blown up, are more vulnerable. The darker one has the stronger armor.
@@nealwhaley63No, they aren't. The slightly different colors have no functional meaning. They blew up the first one by shooting it the neck after tripping it. It's as simple as that.
Thank You both for ALL your hard work, dedication, and detailed informative uploads.
On why the rebels flew right into the empire on Hoth, the answer is quite simple.
That's where the ion cannons were.
The key to the difference between the time Luke spends training on Dagobah and the others spend getting to Cloud City is relativistic time dilation. Time slows down for objects going close to the speed of light. Han, Chewie and Leia experienced a few days, maybe only a few hours on board the Falcon, while the rest of the universe, Luke and Yoda in particular, experienced a very minimum of six months, and probably more like two or three years. This also explains how Vader got there ahead of them and made his "deal" with Lando. Bobba Fett reported their course and speed, so Vader knew where to go and what to do in order to set up a situation that would call Luke to them.
Things about places strong with the force having different times are just nonsense by people who have no understanding of physics.
Awesome to have a followup on this. I think one of mine for the longest time was regarding the Dagobah time differential.
Alex, thanks for adding chapters for all the questions! Great touch and attention to detail!
i read somewhere that between hoth and bespin, it took han around 3 weeks to get to bespin on a backup class 40 hyperdrive. was a large hardcover book published around mid to late 2000s. might have been that picture book that explains alot of ships.
From what I've seen 1980 to 2020 or so, the time span was roughly 3-4 weeks.
I thought Vader made a deal with Lando to not harm his friends. He still honoured that (not letting Boba Fett fire) as he knew carbonite was non-lethal and was the commit of payment to the Hutts.
"But what does he eat?" - the chef on Bespin.
Processed paste through a straw.
As a gourmet chef I'd say that's an insult so go tell him to pound sand.
Oh, wait. >_>
I've never heard Lucas say anything about it, but EU storylines aside, I feel like Lobot was originally meant to represent Lando's conscience; his cinematic placement often right behind or beside Lando, everpresent with his mannerisms and facial expressions feeling like a patient, passive judgement. When Vader "changes the deal" in the carbonite scene, Lando looks at Lobot who side-eyes him, as you included that clip here. I think that really was the moment Lando had to admit to himself that the betrayal was a mistake and decide to help them escape, giving up everything he had in order to do so. If I could ask Lucas one question about his SW universe, it would be about this.
I like how the last shot of Empire is Luke and Leia looking at a protostar.
It's poetic in that the protostar is the beginning of a new star being born. Which occurs after a a star goes supernova.
Luke had just gone through a traumatic experience, but had recovered and was starting almost anew. It also ties into the title of the previous movie. A New Hope. Luke and Leia look upon this protostar as if the essence of the universe is reaffirming to them in its own cosmic way that THEY are the galaxy's new hope.
I like the scene in Lost Stars where Ciena thinks Vader's about to murder everyone on that bridge and then everyone is immensely confused and relieved when Vader just leaves.
8:00 I get tickled imaging Uncle Palps meeting with his executive motivational coach over Zoom in secret. It’s a Robot Chicken skit waiting to happen 😂
Loving these videos! Hope there’s one for each movie in the saga.
I think Obi-wan's line totally makes sense considering Luke is probably at a stage in his training that is comparable to a youngling, so Obi-wan's idea of what he means by "instructed" is "instructed in the most basic levels of Jedi training," in which case it was Yoda who originally instructed him, while Qui-gon later mentored him in the more advanced levels of Jedi training.
It's like if you started a job and got trained by a guy named Yoda when you first started, then you eventually got promoted, and a guy named Qui-gon trained you in your new position. If a new guy named Luke starts working there, you might say to him, "You're going to be training with Yoda. He's the guy who trained me." You don't need to mention that Qui-gon later gave you further training.
The glaring omission is one of the funniest jokes in Star Wars but half of it is not translated from R2D2-speak:
C3PO: Well look what happened to me.
R2D2: [noises]
C3PO: Of course I've looked better!
The obvious implication is that R2D2, seeing C3PO in several pieces said "You've never looked better."
C3PO,as so often, completely misses the point.
19:50 is tibanna gas not what powers blasters anymore?
Pretty sure it's still canon. I believe there is a mention of it in at least one novel and maybe Battlefront II.
Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Even though he did also teach younglings, he never stopped teaching a Jedi as they progressed, even those who were Masters. There are many scenes establishing this in the prequels and other media - not only in the sense that he was the most respected voice on the Council but in literal sessions where Obi Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, and others were sitting with Yoda one on one to receive further personalized teaching and instruction. Yoda was wise in the ways of the Force. He was also the one who told Obi Wan about being a force ghost and that Qui Gonn would be visiting him to teach him more. That is why Qui Gonn appears in the Kenobi series.
Ord Mantell was first introduced in the Star Wars radio drama, which was a series of stories taking place between A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back. That particular story, which describes the encounter with the bounty hunter in detail, was released as a vinyl album and cassette just after Empire hit theaters.
I have a few questions: 1. Why didn't Han, Leia, and Chewie not know they had flown into the guts of the giant worm when they entered that cave on the asteroid for concealment? 2. What took them so long to realize they were inside a giant creature and not a cave? 3. As for Luke's prosthetic arm, should he feel pain after it gets activated when that needle on a finger touched his palm, or is that a remnant of a nerve ending from when Luke had an organic arm before it cut off during his lightsaber duel w/his Dad? 4. Did Mark Hamill have a stunt double to do that slide from the pilon to the guts of that room to the hatch that then ended up having Luke hanging by one arm of Cloud City? 5. How could the Imperial Destroyer not know that the Millennium Falcon was attached to the rear of the command "island" on the ship? 6. What is Yoda's race or species name?
Aren’t there references to Alex and Mollie in that General Veers story as well???
Really fantastic piece! I saw Star Wars in the theaters when I had just turned 6 years old, and the experience made me fall in love with movies (particularly sci-fi). I would go on to see Empire Strikes Back 19 times in the cinema!
Quick Question: in book of Boba Fett, how does Fett gain 75 pounds and age 40 years, while starving to death in the desert?
Good video....now you need to do a questions video for Return Of The Jedi
I'm just reading FACPOV for Empire and the exogorth also loves the fact that these humans are living inside it, so it expends a lot of its resources createing a habitable place for them.
I've always thought that Needa handled his situation in the worst way. He should have just immediately contacted Vader from his bridge with exactly what happened because it had just happened, sound very urgent and busy because he was in the middle of a situation of utmost importance, that they couldn't have just disappeared, add his technical know how of cloaking devices, that they were currently running scans and searching, and if he had any alternate suggestions for how they should proceed. This may not have saved his neck, but it would have showed his determination and at least he wouldn't have been damn near asking to be killed.
I took Piett's survival to mean Vader sensed that R2 had reactivated the Falcon's hyperdrive and that Piett was not to blame, unlike Needa and Ozzel who had blundered in their responsibilities.
Loving these videos. Keep up the great work!
On Lando's closet.. I can't say for sure, but I always imagined (since the disguise used in Solo was still there for Lando to use in RotJ) that Han never redecorated anything and was actually wearing Lando's clothes the whole time. Just picking and choosing darker pieces.
Another Lego fun fact. In Droid Tales which takes place after the Empire, Veers is on Geonosis creating a droid army from old droid parts
Couldn’t the imperial fleet target the shield generator and bombard it like Thrawn did with his fleet during the battle of Atollon? Vader has been shown to be a great tactician. He is the supreme commander of his imperial fleet after all.
Vader ordered Captain Piet to make ready to land the troops and "deploy the fleet, so that nothing gets off the system" before promoting him to Admiral. That's why every which direction the rebel ships were going there was bound to be a star destroyer in the way.
Kind of odd wording about Hell in this answer. A belief in Hell, or even a colloquial mention of the concept, doesn't imply that there is an actual realm of Hell. Just like it doesn't when mentioned in our own reality. At most it implies a current or former belief in one.
I never really understood why "hell" needed an explanation, considering the concept of an underworld of some kind is common enough on Earth that it'll be understood in a broad sense by almost anyone. Even in a faraway galaxy, it never felt like a surprise that the same concept would exist among conscious beings who can die.
I think Vader hated the excuses and insubordination more than he hated the failures, Piett wasn't insubordinate and offered no excuses prompting a solid act of discipline but being left alive to learn from his mistakes.
28:32 I want to say that it was CineFix or one of their ilk who did a great break down on ST:EST. The writer a great reasoning on why Vader goes threw Generals left, right and center up to that point of the movie, changing how I see Vader at the end.
Its funny you dont think the Wampa 02:30 hanging Luke up side down is a thing meant to think about, while at the same time think the expression "See you in H3ll" 01:48 is something worth overanalysing when its an globally known reference-expression everyone watching the movie will understand, unlike "making the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs". The closest to hell in Star Wars original Trilogy would be the Sarlacc stomach where you are digested for several thousands of years in a limbo of h3ll.
I certainly don't want to come off as a snot, and I bow to your SW knowledge! But Chaos is not synonymous with Tartarus, Chaos is the primorsdial void from which Uranus and Gaia, sky and earth, emerged.
17:17 Boba Fett learned this trick from Obi Wan in Attack of the Clones. Jango and Boba are in pursuit of Obi Wan outside of Geonosis. Jango fires a heat seeking missile at Obi Wan, who jettisons his spare parts to distract the missile and hides on an astroid (mirroring Hans tick on the star destroyer). Jango, believing hes terminated Obi Wan, descends into Geonosis, unaware of Obi Wan who follows him.
A question I have is: Could Luke have saved Vader? If he was aware of Force Healing, could he have kept his father alive long enough to get him to a Bacta tank in RotJ? Sure, he was weak from his fight but if the Force wills something it'll happen.
An IG-88 comic run would be great.
1:48 If I was in the Empire writers room, this line would be:
“We’ll Ill see you on Alderaan!”
Much better.
So that is the same Minch who later went to work at FunHaus
Remember 48 minutes were cut from this movie. Including wampa's and Darth vader scenes
Regarding the flight path taken when leaving Hoth: the Rebel base had two main components available for their planetary defense strategy; the shield.... and the ion cannon. The ships could leave in any direction they like, obviously, but if they wanted the massive ion cannon blasts to keep their path clear, the fleet would have to leave the Hoth system via a pretty narrow vector. I always assumed this was the main reason they didn't take the "just ride the Eagles to Mt. DOOaM and throw the ring in," route around the other side of the planet
That's true, but the Empire would've also blocked any other safe hyperspace lanes (if there even were any others). If there was a completely clear alternate route available, they wouldn't have needed to use the ion cannon in the first place.
Also on that last one, I always thought that Luke and Leia had moved the rebel base to a place outside of the galaxy. But a newly forming star system also does make sense for a base location. It certainly won't draw anyone for any kind of historical sentiment.
The reason Vader didn't kill Piett is very simple: Piett didn't screw up. He did his job properly and well. He can hardly be blamed if the rebels fixed the hyperdrive. Also, Vader doesn't waste effort. At that moment, he had lost, he knew he had lost, and I think in that moment, he closed the door on it and began thinking of the future.
The Wampa had the upside down Luke's feet frozen to suspend him at the top of the cave. His feet were frozen. But he used his light saber to thaw the ice around his feet to free him. But his feet would still have been frozen. How was he able to stand and then run with numb and frozen feet?
Ha, yeah I ran through this in my head. I get thawing the ice but it happens almost instantly.
My conclusion was it’s just entertainment, watching Luke carefully thawing and warming his feet would have been ridiculous
other questions, Why did Snow Speeders have toe cables? Not Tractor beams? What did they toe?
and did Luke use a Therma Detonator on the At-At?
😱 After seeing RotJ the first time & revisiting Empire to find Vader’s pod is light on the inside & dark on the outside 👍
Dude im loving these so far
This video is required viewing before going back into Empire Strikes Back.
I really like your 40 most asked questions videos. Alex and Molly, you guys do a great job.
I always accepted that a week of constant jedi training from one of the greatest of all time and a mature pupil equated to an accelerated course.
The real question is how didn't the Falcon not detect Slave One right on their ass there.
Here’s my lifelong question. How did they land the Imperial Walkers onto Hoth while the shield generator was still up? I mean they somehow landed on Hoth before shield was down which they eventually destroyed? 😮
Hmm...From Vader's dialog previous in the movie, did not the Empire land their forces *outside* the shields coverage and have to "fight their way in"? That "fight in" was why the walkers were dropped down to the planet.
Keep up this series is amazing ❤ great work alex!
I think the Wampa has ice-breathing, in the SNES it has the ability to freeze the player with its breath
The force choking also somehow worked for Barris when she killed Letta while supposedly not being anywhere near her
Considering we've been shown in the Mandalorian season three that there is some level of travel time in hyperspace with Din, Sleeping during the flight from his clan's enclave to Navarro. luke's flight to Dagobah was probably only a few hours in universe, It's during his time in hyperspace that we see Han and Leia Perspective and the entire time he's on Dagaba is during their flight to Cloud City.
@@jedsithor From a viewer's perspective it doesn't look like it took too long. considering the Millennium Falcon has to follow the hyperspace routes to Alderaan
You are a person of culture for using the incarnation of Chaos from Hades!
I always felt that after learning of Rogue 1, Luke could consider himself the last member of that team. After all, he was the one who received the plans they died to retrieve. He's the one who made sure the plans got to the Rebel Alliance, and he's the one who ultimately made sure those plans were put to good use by blowing up the Death Star. It was very fitting then that he would name his flight group Rogue Squadron in their honor.
Luke's "Failure in the Cave" is foreshadowing that there's a connection to Vader and that in order to defeat Vader he cannot give in to fear and hate since that will be a path to the dark side and his downfall (i.e. What the Emperor probably wants)
Why did the rebels flee through the empire fleet and not away from it? 10:33 Hello? This is not Disney Star Wars where you can hyperspace skip throug planets. Also, being in orbit in space gives you the advantage of fast orbit in speeds you can never reach on any planet surface where the atmosphere slows you down and gravity pulls on you. The Rebels had no way to flee in another direction but through the Empire fleet even if they flew to the other side of the planet.
I never had a problem with the way they had Vader let Admiral Piett live, and don’t agree with those who assumed he killed him later until he showed up again in Return of the Jedi. For a small role they had a great actor in Kenneth Colley (he was great as the lead in “Measure For Measure” in the BBC’s complete works of Shakespeare) and the nuances of his reactions, first to when Vader is killing Admiral Ozzell in front of him and then when he’s clearly expecting the same fate until Vader just walks away, are brilliant here.
Plus it’s pretty clear that Ozzel’s offense was a lot greater, as Piett did everything he was supposed to do until R2 saved the day. Ozzell, as clumsy as he was stupid, acted as he did because he was convinced the rebels were not on Hoth, and was even continuing to contradict Vader after he told him they were.
Vader was in his Pod when one of the officers enttered his chambers and it wasnt completely closed when Vader had his helmet off and the officer watched through one off the openings as his helmet was lowered downward. How was this possible?
for "E Chuta" fans like to assume its the f-bomb or something but remember C-3PO is a very proper and fussy droid all about politeness and protocol so any amount of rudeness is scandalous to him, hence him always complaining about R2-D2's sassy attitude. So that silver droid saying "e chuta" could simply mean "whatever, dude" which is even funnier to me.
obiwan learned as a young padawan from Yoda. We see that in Phantom Menace, he's teaching Jedi classes, when Obiwan rocks up to ask about the Kamino system not being where is should be according to the Jedi archive star-charts.