Why can't Obi Wan forgive Qui-Gon after all these years? Just let Qui-Gons be bygones.

Linkara: "I'm looking for a great Jedi." Fat Grandma Yoda: "Your mouth you hush up. Eat my Flapjacks you will."

Okay, weird fact about myself and Empire. When i was a kid, I watched the original version. And because of a combination of how I heard a particular line and I guess the voice and effects... I thought Boba Fett was Darth Vader's son. When Boba says the line "He's no good to me dead" I thought he said "He's no good to me, Dad."

Point of note, my understanding is that of all people Carrie Fisher apparently did a bunch of dialog rewrites for this movie more or less on set, punching the dialog up and making it a lot better. She was entirely uncredited for it, seemingly she was okay with that. This may explain why a lot of the dialog is different, what we see here might be closer to the original text. Turns out George Lucas was always pretty bad at writing dialog, he just had someone who wasn't nearby to cover for him in this case. Also Carrie was not one to mince words and almost certainly more than willing to walk up to George and say "Shut up and get me a pen." *Writes furiously* "We're saying THAT now!"

Vader keeps calling people Admiral Ozol so that when he kills them he doesn't have to fill out a new incident report and can instead use a form letter

Linkara: We truly open with- Book: SOLAR FLARE!

"If this is the will of The Force, The Force is an asshole." Yep. Always has been...

In interviews, Mark Hamill downplays the injuries he sustained to his face, stating that the Wampa attack was always in the script. I don't know, maybe he's just trying to...save face? (Dun-dun-tsst!)

Batman: You killed my father!! OneFace: No Bruce, I AM YOUR FATHER.........'S ATTORNEY!! Batman: No! Its not TRUE!! ITS IMPOSSIBLE!!! NNOOOOOOOOO!!

12:15 Fun fact, in the Star Wars video game Shadows of The Empire, you also find a room in the Hoth Rebel Base with a wampa that you can sic on snowtroopers. You may still end up having to shoot it down yourself, it was in a room filled with power ups if I remember right.

Not every force sensitive person is a Jedi or Sith, but every Jedi and Sith are force sensitive.

Stan Lee Presents Star Wars! Peter Parker: HEY REMEMBER THAT OLD MOVIE?

I can't help but think that if this episode was done about a decade ago, over the end credits, Weird Al's "Yoda" would be playing...

I have to say, Linkara’s always been talented with his impersonations of certain characters, like with Mark Hamill’s Joker voice, but both his Darth Vader voice and his Yoda voice for this review were particularly impressive.

Funny thing, Lucas adding an over-the-top yell for Luke falling in the Special Edition? That actually happened. In the 1997 edition, Lucas decided to have Luke scream and for whatever reason, he used the scream Palpatine made as he fell to his death at the end of ROTJ. It was so goofy, it was one of the few changes Lucas actually walked back on for future re-releases.

Linkara: the force is an asshole. Darth Traya: I like the way you think.

I'd like to think that Carrie Fisher was so coked out of her mind she didn't even remember doing the holiday special at all. Like, "Whoa! I really did that shit?!"

If i had to come up with an alternate interpretation to the "he is our only hope" part it would be this: Obi-Wan's viewpoint is what you mentioned about regarding Luke's potential as a Jedi with the bloodline and powers, etc. he thinks that this will be what allows Luke to have the strength and skill needed to destroy Vader and Palpatine... BUT, the true meaning of Luke being the last Hope is that he is the last hope for Anakin to redeem himself. Ashoka tried to reach Anakin and failed, Obi-Wan twice reached out and failed, Luke IS the last hope because him and by extension Leia are the last connection he has to Padme, it's Anakin's love for her and for his children that broke the dark side and Palpatine's hold over him and allowed for him to atone for his atrocities by sacrificing himself to kill Palpatine and free the galaxy of the evil he helped bring into. and this is why Luke is special and why it's, imo, okay for other jedi to exist, because none of them, not Ashoka, not Ezra, not Grogu, or whoever has the connection with Anakin the way Luke does. Love is what redeemed Vader and it was Luke's unyielding belief that his father could be turned that helped remind Anakin of how, a long time ago, the woman he loved held that same unyielding love for him only this time Anakin made the right choice and in doing so saved the galaxy rather than dooming it.

An additional note on the "I know" line from Han, dunno if you know about this or not but since you didn't mention it - the original scripted line (by Lucas, of course) was indeed Han replying "I love you too", but the director and Harrison Ford both agreed it didn't sound right for Han to say such a sappy line, so they did multiple takes with the director encouraging him to ab-lib something. The set was hot, uncomfortable, and the shoot was going long, so a frustrated Ford said the next one would be the last one he did, and that was the "I know" line. During editing George Lucas was upset they wanted to go with that line, but the director and Ford fought for it and it got a massively positive response from test audiences. And in typing this out I'm reminded of what I've said to friends in the past - the more I hear about the original trilogy, sometimes I feel like Star Wars was a success *in spite* of George Lucas' involvement, not because of it.

Considering how small Yoda was in these comics. I wonder is was also bothered by seagulls.

0:14 actually Star Wars’ first outing would be the novelization of A New Hope by Alan Dean Foster. A New Hope was meant to release in November of 1976 but production issues delayed the film by six months, however the novelization released on time. My father for years thought Star Wars was based on a book because of that release discrepancy The first edition of the novelization also contains some interesting discrepancies compared to later developments. For example it describes The Emperor as a feeble powerless old man who is used as a puppet by Vader and other high ranking officials. A far cry from the Palpatine we know today

Fun fact: Due to production lead time, Marvel initially based Yoda's design on some concept art given to them while the movie was still in preproduction. After learning that the design had been changed, Marvel managed to redo the comic's art for the monthly issues, but it was too late to change the graphic novel collection of the adaptation released at the same time so that still featured Yoda in his early concept look.

The “terrorists that destroyed a job creator” joke gave me flashbacks to all those people who defend the Galactic Empire 💀

I had to laugh at the joke about snow being so much better than sand was followed up by an ad for Dune.

I think Linkara's missing something about Luke being "the only hope." Luke isn't important because he's powerful, or because he can do amazing things other Jedi can't. They tried relying on being a great warrior with Anakin, and it only made things worse. In Return of the Jedi, Luke *doesn't* defeat Palpatine by being stronger than him. He doesn't defeat Palpatine at all, Vader does. Because what Luke has, what Obi-Wan and Cal Kestis and Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger and Quinlan Vos and even Ahsoka Tano don't have... is that he Anakin and Padme's _son._ So, for Vader, seeing the last remnant of the love he had for Padme suffering at the hands of the Empire is what it takes to turn him against Palpatine once and for all. Love, conquering hate. Luke was never special because he was a Jedi. Anyone can be a Jedi. Luke was special because he was the son of a man who needed to be offered a path back to the light by someone he couldn't help but love unconditionally.

Also, that ice cream maker is no doubt an extremely valuable heirloom.

Someone needs to patreon Linkara to go over Rise of Skywalker once he finishes the Return of the Jedi comic just for the sake of completing the movie line up

7:40. So Leia was high on Spice during the Holiday Special? Makes sense she has lost her home planet and family.

30:55 Linkara’s bit about Star Wars holograms being crappy is made funnier when you realize he mis-read the line. It says “flickers silently” not “slightly”. Good entry for the end of year Top 15 Screw Ups.

People HATED Empire? Wow, so it really is a never ending cycle of fans hating then learning to love this franchise...

To answer the disintegration question while we don’t see it in the movies, we do see it in the Mandalorian. Mando’s pronged rifle is a Disruptor, essentially a blaster that turns whatever it hits into dust. He uses it on some Jawas in the first season, and all that’s left after they get hit is their cloaks. I also think a Disruptor appears in one of the cartoons, but I can’t remember which off the top of my head. Also Im not sure if their named after Disruptors from Star Trek or if the name is just a massive coincidence

Well it's around midnight. Sleep is overrated. Let's watch this video.

Linkara is kinda like the force. He brings us nerds together.

Never forget the universe where Yoda used the Death Star as a meteor against Palpatine.

Vader: You know, in retrospect, maybe we should have put a tracker in the Falcon like we did the last time. It worked out great then! Well, not the Death Star getting blown up, but the original plan worked fine. Also, there are like 8 Robot Chicken sketches my brain went to while watching this episode. Surprised they didn't get a cutaway or two.

Ngl that Yoda monologue still hits hard whether it's Frank Oz or Lewis delivering it.

Damn Linkara's voice impressions are pretty damn good, particularly Yoda and Han

I wonder how many Tauntauns he had to interbreed to finally end up with a Purple one! That's almost as rare as Gold Tauntauns!

39:31 We have indeed! In The Mandalorian S1, we see Din Djarin use his blaster with the tuning fork looking thing at the end disintegrate a whole Jawa.

Huh, so that's why in the Shadow's of the Empire video game on the Hoth base level you find a room full of wampas.

With the ice around Luke's legs. I always assumed the wampa just spit on the legs of Luke and low temperature made it freeze and it acted like a glue

33:38 The way I interpret it is that Luke isn’t the last hope because of any special powers he has but rather the emotional connection he has to Vader is the only thing that could give him the advantage he’d need against him where other Jedi wouldn’t have it

27:08 I need that fan comic in my life, Yoda pulling the ship out of the bog and the two traveling to Applebee's, Luke absolutely irritated as they spend time feasting on a meal and all he wants to do is figure out the deal with this weird green goblin man.

Not showing Luke's hand getting cut off feels like it might have been a matter of censorship.

That bit at the beginning where you get mad at Rise of Skywalker made me remember a bit of trivia for Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas had an early draft where Palpatine would reveal that he used the force to create Anakin (which the Darth Plagueis story would have foreshadowed) and thus was his ‘father’ but Lucas removed it because he thought it was a cheap rehash of the Original Trilogy’s twist. Now imagine the Reylo kiss with this knowledge in mind.

Fun fact the Novelization of The Empire strikes back actually came out 2 months before the movie and had the father reveal in it. But, even though the book was a best seller, nobody read the book because people still had the mentality that the movie was this big thing they'd only get to experience once and the book would be the thing to read to relive the memories of that movie. It's interesting how home video changed people's mentality.

"search your feelings youngster" is kind of hilarious to imagine Darth Vader saying

The other former Jed survivors didn't have the power to beat the Emperor and the Vader I mean Yoda lost to the Emperor, but more importantly even though it's not what Obi-Wan wanted anyone but Anakin's child would have not have been able to bring him back to the dark... not Ahsoka or Obi-wan who reminded him of his past, had to be someone who represented his future. I think for Obi-Wan and Yoda they were counting on Luke's midichlorian count, but it was the family bond on a more human level that was important.

20:30 To answer a question that should not be answered... there really isn't. Snowtroopers are just the alternate name for Stormtroopers. They're basically just Stormtroopers but more bundled... though I now have the image in my head of Palpatine being the only one who cares about the exact name schemes being annoyed at everyone not saying the correct name.

Geez, making the hand getting cut off happen offpanel and 'I am your father' being relegated to a normal panel is giving me flashbacks to the Wrath of Khan comic making the Khan yell a single tiny panel.

It's late at night, I'm quite literally sick and tired... but i've still got time to watch an hour long video about a comic i've never read based on a movie i'm kinda ambivalent towards

*Luke Skywalker in the healing tank* Luke: (thinking) *Heh heh, the bubbles tickle... Heh heh, ow...! It hurts to laugh... Heh heh, ow...! Heh heh, ow...! Heh heh, ow...!* Obi-Wan: *Luke! Luke, are you there?* Luke: (thinking) *Oh, hey, Obi-Wan. I'm in a healing pod.*

I had no idea Star Wars empire strikes back even had comic adaptation.

Haha 😂 linkara thanks for making me laugh for a good bit, imagining Darth Vader making a snowman with the snow-troopers on hoth, as snow is the "polar" opposite of sand 😂 ☃️ great review 👍

As for not showing Luke's hand getting cut off, I don't know if The Comics Code Authority was still active at the time these were released but there could've been some kind of rule preventing such acts of body mutilation/body part severing from being out rite shown and depicted.

20:37 All Snowtroopers are Stormtroopers, not all Stormtroopers are Snowtroopers. They're just Stormtroopers with specialized training and equipment, like most Stormtrooper varients.

I know I'm a nitpicker but Yeah, Tauntauns might not be nocturnally adapted to their environment and might seek natural shelters during nighttime or huddle together in groups like mammoths did, so it is perfectly capable for a lone tauntaun to die of exhaustion and low temperature at nighttime. That, and Han is wearing special clothes that might provide better insulation than the tauntaun's own fur.

Boba-que sauce is too good.

While using Ian as Palpatine for the special edition is fun, George Lucas just couldn't leave well enough. Even after replacing the Emperor he kept going back and changing the dialogue. The addition of Palpatine telling Vader Luke is the son of Anakin Skywalker, and the implication that Vader didn't know that breaks the movie. Vader's motivation only works if he knows who Luke is from the start. EU material both Legends and Disney have tended to go with the original version of the scene over the final Lucas special edition version.

And worst of all: Vader isn't GREEN in this comic. Also I just now noticed that you have a model of what looks like the space fighter from the Descent games on your shelf. Neat.

I think the thing with the lightsaber training on Dagobah is because it's specifically testing Luke's impatience to become the view he has of the Jedi; Warriors that can use the force, rather than what it truly means to be a jedi

According to the issues that came out after the A New Hope storyline, Han was robbed of his reward money by a pirate. While Marvel Star Wars' continuity with the rest of Legends has always been questionable, this particular story was later referenced by a more official story in 2013. Yes I will be giving you Legends lore as I watch this video.

4:41 FTR its the opening crawl from the first draft of ESB and, yes, it was going to originally be against a white or ice blue background.

36:35 My interpretation is that it’s more a mindset thing the there is no try means you either do it or you don’t and it’s a matter of believing you will do something Trying carries the expectation of failure which does muddy a Jedis potential with the force. Where as a Jedi that believes they will lift the x wing will do it. Whats funny is that in TCW Dooku says a paraphrased version to his apprentice Savage Opress that sums it up completely (The task is only impossible because you’ve deemed it so)

55:45 One of my favorite bits of useless Star Trek trivia is that one of the regularly reused props on the original series was this pair of Danish salt shakers that were just painted silver and used as Bones' medical instruments, Scotty's engineering tools, and I think actual salt shakers at one point, funnily enough. Also, I think it's hilarious that the cool future science stuff that Bones and Scotty were doing was just them waving salt shakers with futuristic "bwoooo" noises added.

The single best joke in this whole video was the _real_ reason why Vader was obsessed with tracking down the Millennium Falcon. I haven't had a good laugh like that in weeks!

I know where you're coming from with Yoda and the lightsaber training...but Yoda knows Luke will one day have to fight Vader. The "that boy is our last hope" line makes it clear that Yoda and Obi-Wan want this confrontation to happen. Any Force abilities Luke learns, Vader could counter with his own Force powers. A fight with Vader will inevitably end with a lightsaber duel. If we ignore the prequels and look at this using only A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, we know Yoda trained Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan trained Vader. Yoda has been in contact with Obi-Wan, and the two are most likely training Luke to defend himself specifically against Vader's fighting style.

Can I just say that I love your Yoda impression. Not just when you’re doing a joke but also when you’re reading his speech bubbles. The inflections and pauses are dead on

I find it kinda funny that Luke never lets Vader or the Emperor know that he also got some training from Yoda. I just imagine that if he'd let it slip during their fight, Vader would've gone "oh... shit."

I love that scene in SG1 that you reference around 18 minutes in, great bit of worldbuilding and the characters understanding the setting that they're in.

If I recall correctly the Mandolorian in the show initially used a rifle that did disintegrate it's targets. He shot at some Jawas and they instantly turned into smoke and cloth

One thing I do want to mention in regards to Yoda teaching a bit on Lightsaber combat, while it is true that the bulk of training from him _should_ be in mastery of the force but at the same time it's shown that at least a good part of the training is in physical discipline. Yes Yoda's training of Luke does incorporate a lot of exercises and other forms of physical training but I honestly think that Yoda likely _would_ still give Luke some pointers on Lightsaber combat since it would still be part of that same discipline.

Headcanon: Yoda was teaching Luke the lightsaber techniques to rib him. Explanation: Yoda has shown that he loves messing with people by this point. He tricked him into thinking he's a civilian instead of the person Luke was meant to find after all. So maybe he was forcing Luke to run laps and swing a lightsaber to 'fulfill' Luke's wishes by putting him into the sort of training he had expected. Just another example of Yoda subverting Luke's expectations. After all, why do the exercises with Yoda on his back, whose only real purpose would be to build muscle, then tell him later that it's the force that matters "not this crude flesh"?

THE THUMBNAIL LOOKED LIKE SOMETHING I CANNOT UNSEE XD

The Tauntaun dying DOES make sense, evolutionarily. Colder at night, even that creature would need to seek shelter. We have this in deserts and colder regions all the time, where a creature otherwise adapted to said cold can still succumb. It's a reason Emperor Penguins huddle together during snow storms. Evolved for the environment, CAN still freeze to death in the right circumstances.

I'll admit it, "bobacue sauce" gave me a chuckle.

God bless it, I broke out laughing at the Fawn Circle joke. I'm wearing earbuds, so nobody else at the gym knows why.

The Comics strike back!

Just want to point something out. At best a little in the range of 100 Jedi survived, a lot of them fodder for Vader to kill. At the height of the clone wars there were 10,000 Jedi living and serving the galaxy. So while it seems like a lot survived, it's still fits within the narrative, especially as Obi-Wan and Yoda didn't know most of them were alive.

C-3PO: Oh yeah, by the way, that guy's your brother. No harm telling you now. Damage already done. Leia: Oh, wow, he's quite a cutie and.. Oh, my God, I made out with my own brother

12:25 - Not only that, in the N64 game ( _later ported to PC_ ), *Shadows of the Empire* there's a couple of cages inside rooms that contain Wampas. And you can let them loose and they will kill Stormtroopers! Hilariously the Storm/Snowtroopers won't attack them though, they'll only attack you.

I heard for why Lucas was uncertain about doing prequels/sequels to star wars was the hard work that went into making the original trilogy. He was likely suffering burn out near the end and just didn't feel like doing a sequel then and there come return of the Jedi. This is probably why he chose Luke's sister be Leia and not a new villainess. His thought was probably just finish the trilogy as much as he could and adding a new villainess and crafting an arc for her and sequel baiting was just too much work already in addition to aiding in the film's development. Making Luke's sister Leia was likely a means to make his job as writer on it easier. I heard this too was likely why the Prequels used CGI a lot becaise to Lucas, having CGI backgrounds meant not having to deal with local terrain and the hardships of filming in local terrain.

39:37 "Have we ever seen a handheld weapon in the movies or tv shows that would vaporize someone?" The rifle Din has in Mandalorian season 1 vaporized living targets, and it looked identical to the one Boba Fett had in the Star Wars holiday special, although I think he never fired it there, but anyway, that would explain why Vader specifically mentioned this.

39:30 Actually yes. While not necessarily "handheld" like say a standard blaster, in The Mandalorian season 1, Din Djarin wields a phase-pulse blaster rifle, first seen in use by Boba Fett in the Star Wars holiday special. Later on when Din sees the Jawas dismantling his ship, he shoots at them with the rifle which fully disintegrates them. In Legends, and I believe even in Canon, the Empire had full outlawed them, however some were still being traded in the black market and in the outer rim to bounty hunters. Ah, The joys of retaining useless information to my favorite franchise.

11:32 ...he says knowing full well that Rogue 2 gets blown up about 15 minutes later.

33:37 - Personally I don't have a problem with so many Jedi surviving as statistically Order 66 could have been a success even with so many Jedi surviving in canon and also Obi-Wan is under the impression that Luke is the Chosen One (Yoda reveals later on their is another meaning he suspects it is Leia which was Lucas' original intent for the Sequel Trilogy with her becoming Supreme Chancellor) as he came to the conclusion Anakin wasn't due to his fall & becoming Darth Vader (he was ultimately wrong as Luke realized his father could be redeemed & that the light of Anakin still existed in Darth Vader, and Luke's refusal to kill him saw him embrace the true path of a Jedi, with him reminding Anakin of the Jedi he once was with his line like my father before me)! Basically Obi-Wan while at one with the Force is still blinded to the truth as Yoda is as they are both preparing Luke to kill Vader! Anakin is the chosen one as he aided Palpatine in destroying the Jedi who no longer truly served the will of the Force and eventually Palpatine himself as Palpatine was the embodiment of the Dark Side! By choosing to die, Anakin brought balance by putting the Light & Dark sides back at square one (the sequel trilogy doesn't contradict this as it takes place long after the battle of Endor and was likely do to Palpatine cheating death as well as his manipulation of Ben Solo via Snoke & eventually in person before he returned to the light)! You have to remember Obi-Wan & Yoda aren't any more perfect than Luke is and there are plenty of examples in LEGENDs & Canon of the Jedi doing questionable things (from the Republic's war crimes such as faking surrender to the CIS which in the real world is classified as a war crime by the Geneva convention, to their practice of taking children from their parents)! While Star Wars is often viewed as a classic struggle of Good vs Evil, it isn't all black and white! Having Obi-Wan shift his view of Anakin being the Chosen One to Luke makes sense based upon his character & Yoda considering the possibility it could be Leia works to as Yoda realized his failures during his fight with the Emperor in Revenge of the Sith!

My girlfriend just departed since visiting during the Ben 10 review, she wanted me to say the channel is quite great for a comics channel I showed to her as somebody who doenst read comics

Linkara: The Force is an a-hole. Darth Goldmark: Yeah, and cows go moo.

We have seen a weapon disintegrated something in Star Wars, in the second episode of the first season of the Mandalorian. Mando vaporized a Jawa with his long rifle during the scene when he finds them dismantling his ship

Looking back on this as an adult, I think having a near villain victory like this was a good choice. Incompetent villains continually failing means there's no stakes, no challenge to overcome. By having the heroes make mistakes and fail to stop the bad guys, it makes the victories, both small here (Luke being rescued, Lando joining the group), and the events of the next movie, feel earned. It's a wake up call for Luke that he can't be brash and headstrong all the time, and as you noted, shows how his strengths are also his weaknesses. Also I agree 100% that applying the Divine Right of Kinds philosophy to the Jedi is stupid and never should have happened. I really prefer Rey as some nobody from nowhere. I really wish they hadn't walked back The Last Jedi's shake ups.

39:45 Mando's rifle could, but it looked like he needed some kind of special cartridge to do it. Also in the movie Vader pointed directly at Boba, so he probably did at some point

Interestingly enough, my significant other and I have a different, more positive interpretation on the somewhat infamous "I know" from Han. We both always read that line as "you don't have to tell me, because your actions/behavior already show me that you do". ... Granted, Leia and Han are always kinda bickering, but we have adapted the habit of responding with "I know", whenever one of us gets the urge to tell the other.

LINKARA! THE CONTINUNITY ALARM HAS GAINED SENTIENCE AND BECAME A DC CHARACTER!

I now have stuck in my head Vader singing "Would you like to make a snowman?"

55:35 To be fair, that citizen probably felt that ice cream maker made the best ice cream in not only Cloud City, but the entire galaxy. If I had to evacuate, I would've taken it too.

The other Jedi survivors of Order 66 AREN'T candidates as "Last Hopes" because they're little more than grizzled survivors now. They're more concerned about living to old age and preserving some small amount of light in an increasingly darkening universe. They don't think the Empire can be stopped. It's likely Yoda and Obi-Wan have reached out to them in the intervening years, only to be disappointed again and again. Even works that feature the surviving Jedi have them only having small successes in the grand scheme of things, and even then they're painfully aware that their interference in local affairs will only draw the ire of the Empire and the attention of Vader and the Emperor. Orbital bombardment becomes a very real concern for hermits without an army at their backs. As for the "A Jedi could have cut it in seven pieces..." bit, Yoda's demonstrating to Luke just how out of his depth he is. He was able to run with Yoda on his back with the youthful energy of a twenty-something, but the moment it became clear that he had to do something MORE, he collapsed. It's not about being able to cut the pipe repeatedly, it's about knowing how to draw on the Force to sustain him so he can tackle any challenge that comes his way. Even telling him that he could cut it in "seven pieces" is a test, because Yoda doesn't actually want him to cut it in seven pieces. He wants him to just be ready for another challenge. Look how later, Luke has learned entirely the wrong lesson about it and has instead focused on the number ("Still not SEVEN!"), so Yoda switches tactics to the Darkside Cavern, forcing him to face what happens when he gives in to his darker impulses.

Ironic that The Empire Strikes Back is considered dark when it's the only Episode where no major good guys die.

21:30 I love that gag

36:58 - "Life creates it, makes it grow." This! This right here is the reason why, unlike so many others, I don't have a problem with the concept of Anakin's "virgin birth" in The Phantom Menace. If life creates the Force and makes it grow, wouldn't it stand to reason that sometimes the Force would give life in return? So can we please just put this pointless criticism to rest already? Thank you, everyone, you're delight. And before you start swamping me with expanded universe stuff in regards to that plot point, don't bother - I'm bringing this up strictly in the context of what the movies gave us. On another note, something I really love about the Battle of Hoth and something that we really should be seeing more of in high-profile sci-fi and fantasy series is the fact it's an unwinnable scenario for the good guys - they know this is a battle they're gonna lose, so their objective is to hold out long enough against the enemy until they can make their escape or help others escape. Why don't we see more of that in high-profile big-budget sci-fi and fantasy blockbuster series? The only other such instance I can think of is the fall of Asgard in Thor: Ragnarok. Are there any that I'm missing? Sound off and let me know.

Linkara I get not being a fan of the chosen one stuff or the bloodline but even befire Midichlorians power levels existed. As Obi-Wan and Yoda stated the force flows through EVERY creature. But the fact Vader was able to “hunt the Jedi to near extinction” means there had to be some requirement beyond ideology to be one