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This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars analysis

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join me on my fifth leg of

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the journey towards Ahsoka. I'm talking about

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The Empire Strikes Back

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a lot of people's favorite Star Wars movie of all time

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It's not my favorite Star Wars movie of all time

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But it is good. It's a good movie, and I'm going to talk about it now

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I

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started off in Phantom Menace, and I've worked my way through the prequel trilogy and now I'm

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at the

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turning point of the sequel trilogy or the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, so I

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like this movie a lot

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something that came to my mind is

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in order for so

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so it's very interesting because we have a

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Dark Lord of the Sith

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tempting a

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powerful young Jedi who has incredible force potential to join him and

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the Civil War and the fighting that's going on and

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Really interesting because of course in Revenge of the Sith we get to see Anakin be presented with the choice to become

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Darth Sidious his apprentice

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and he took it and in order to do that he

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betrayed the Jedi and

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murdered a lot of people and

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Helped get a Jedi Master who didn't like him very much and who he didn't like very much killed so

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Anakin's downfall came because he was trying to save the life of Padme and the unborn child

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potential death of them by visions that he had

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that just came to him at night while he was sleeping and you know visions in his dreams and

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Luke while he's training on Dagobah and

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He's training on Dagobah and he's already passed failed this one test where he

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confronts the dark side in that cave with Yoda or not with Yoda, but at the Yoda's insistence or guidance and

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He's learning more about the force. He's becoming more in tune with it

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He's you know advancing as a Jedi or advancing as far as his level of training is concerned

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Of course, he's nowhere near where Anakin was at the same time or you know, he's years younger than Anakin. So

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But still Anakin spent the time from when he was 10 to the time that he was

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You know training as a Padawan under Obi-Wan and Yoda has been training Luke intensively for the last few weeks

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So, you know the gap between them is huge

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Luke is as he's using the force

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To you know train himself and practice being in touch with it in tune with the force

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he gets these visions of

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Leia and Han suffering and potentially dying he

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stop them from being killed by Vader and

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by the Empire and

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directly or not, but he sees them suffering and he chooses to abandon his master's training and

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He should stay there on Dagobah and continue his training and potentially let them die because Luke raises the question

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What if they die and he says if you value what they are fighting for and everything that they've done you

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Will Luke says and sacrifice Han and Leia?

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He says if you value what they have worked for then yes, you will and I find that very interesting

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I find that very challenging Luke obviously does the wrong thing

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I don't think he's tempted to fall to the dark side at this point

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But he parallels Anakin very much and that again he leaves his master. He doesn't listen to what Yoda says he doesn't

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accept the doom of these people that he cares for and instead he goes off on his own to

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Save them now

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Anakin or Vader offers

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Vader offers Luke what he offered Padme

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years ago 20 years ago join me and

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Together we can rule the galaxy. He tells him you he tells Padme

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I can overthrow the Emperor and then you and I can rule the galaxy together and we can make things be the way we want them to be

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to the galaxy he will end the Clone Wars and

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fighting to overthrow the Empire whereas we had the the CIS the

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Self-rule breaking away from the Galactic Republic. So it's interesting the way that there's these parallels

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point he says we can end this pointless fighting and

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excuse me in this competition that he's having with Luke because

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He Vader looks so disappointed when Luke chooses to jump to his death

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Ostensibly as opposed to join him

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It doesn't directly mirror what happened with Padme because she just said no, I can't do this and you know

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I I know you're breaking my heart and all this stuff. You know, I can't follow you

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Take my hand and come with me and we'll overthrow the Emperor and we'll rule and we'll make things the way we want them to

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Be it's very much the same plea

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it the bones the heart the soul is Anakin even though the

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The shell is Vader. So it's the same guy with the same wants and needs and the same longing for his family

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This is the son that he was trying to save all those years ago every youngling that he murdered he

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traded their lives for Luke's and

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That still has to be with him in some way and

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It's not okay. It's not okay what happened. It doesn't make it. Okay, but it makes the

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It makes all the sacrifice and all the bloodshed and all the evil that he's done

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Pointless it almost nullifies it

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It's almost like the Greek tragedy type of thing on the path that you take to avoid your destiny. You will meet it

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Had Anakin done nothing had he pulled back had he run away with Padme had he not fallen to the dark side and become Darth Vader

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Wouldn't his children be alive today wouldn't his wife be alive because in spite of him becoming Darth Vader

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Don't think you know she died of a broken heart. Whatever. I don't think she would have died unless he had forced choked her and

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Well, I don't know it's possible that the Emperor that Sidious did something to her as well and killed her from afar. We've seen

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Vader in Empire Strikes Back kill somebody over the holo net like, you know

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Sidious is even more powerful in the dark side and he could be killing Padme from across the galaxy

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Even though he's not that far. She was on I don't know how far Moose Far is

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From but he was in route, you know, he could have killed her there

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I also don't know where the meteor field or whatever was where anyway

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The point is I'm sure if Lucas needed to be the case it could be clear clear cut

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To with the audience at least that Sidious is the one that actually killed Padme the fact that their hurt

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Attacking her in spite of Sidious attacking Padme and had they gone off somewhere else. Maybe Sidious would have killed

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Her but Anakin would have known that it was the Sith and not the Jedi or I presume

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in failing of Anakin and

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fall of him in Revenge of the Sith hurts and

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The little echoes of Anakin within Vader of him

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Then here he's trying to reach out to his son and he's trying to take him in and he's trying to overthrow the Emperor

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Just like he did 20 years ago. The way of the Sith is treachery, but

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The way of the Sith is treachery

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It makes it hurt more and I I think that's good. I think it should stay tragic

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Dead father who he's never met who presumably was dead before he was born

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I think that's the the lie that Anakin or that uh that the wars tell him

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I think based on the films only it is canon that the certain point of view thing comes from Anakin telling Obi-Wan

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It's kind of messed up. Anyway

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And you know Vader is like the ghost of Anakin the the evil, you know haunting nightmarish, you know poltergeist of Anakin and

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Luke wants to fight against that and he he first wants revenge against Vader, which is not the Jedi way and

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He is Vader that he is his father that he is Anakin that shocks and astonishes Luke and he

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Doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know how to handle it. I don't know if he willingly leapt to his death because he was afraid that he might

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with his father for the first time in his life and have that relationship or

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To say no, I will not fall to the dark side because he knew that you know

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murdered Luke's aunt and uncle who were his mother and father and

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sanctioning and agreeing with and

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Align himself with the man that killed all the family that Luke had ever known and

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That's shocking. That's flabbergasting. That's never really occurred to me to think about it from Luke's perspective in that

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ideals that Luke had been learning about and the philosophy that he had been learning

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And of course the philosophy doesn't matter unless it's the difference in philosophy causes you to murder people who are innocent

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Uh versus defend people who are innocent

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But yeah, that's I mean that that had to have been such a shocker and that's really wild

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Anyway, I think a lot of people like the empire strikes back so much because of all the losses that the

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They do not have the advantage the empire has the advantage and is pressing and gaining more advantage as each minute of the film takes by

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And that's definitely true. Yes

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Luke is training under yoda. He is

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As vader so aptly says he is not a jedi yet

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You know spiritually emotionally or physically or you know in the force and

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I think all that's rather interesting. We have the great boom the great potential for vader to bring

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A sith trainee or whatever the case may be

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I don't know what role they would put him in but the emperor

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I find it interesting though in thinking about that scene again the emperor doesn't say who he would be an asset for

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Would luke be his perfect replacement to throw over?

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Vader who's more machine than man now whose force potential has been

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Over a decade how much more so would it be easy to strip?

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Down luke's defenses and bring him into

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The fold and bring him into the dark side and cause him to be a sith

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And again if he's younger if he's more able-bodied if he has more potential or equal potential wouldn't you want somebody who's?

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Young and robust and has years ahead of him for you to train

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as opposed to somebody who's

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become deteriorated in many ways

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And he's not a very good person

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He's not somebody who's become deteriorated in many ways

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So anyway that's that's an idea right there and maybe even folding in stuff from

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The eu or the later the sequel trilogy maybe even

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Luke would be an even better potential host for palpatine cityus to transfer himself into at some point

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So that's kind of interesting

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anyway getting back to all the losses that the

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rebels take and

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It makes you it it raises the threat of vader to the point that you think well

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How could luke defend himself against vader at all and that brings up another question, you know

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Why doesn't vader just force choke luke and bring him into submission like that perhaps?

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In a duel he wouldn't be able to for reasons of concentration perhaps luke has been trained to throw up

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defenses and uh

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You know with the force guiding them jedi and sith uh duel like they do as opposed to just attacking each other with the force

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similar to like what we saw with uh ducu and yoda and then later

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uh cityus and yoda but they ended up going back and forth because they're at such a higher level um

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Of kinship with the force and being able to use it so I don't know that's kind of interesting

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But yeah, I mean this the story is absolutely tragic and the heights of it are great

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Uh, you know the disadvantage that the rebels have is good. Uh, the budding romance between han and leah is interesting

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I really like their dynamics. I like all their interactions

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uh leah's distrust and discomfort with landau and the fact that he turns out to be a traitor to them

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But then he's not really a traitor and that's all super interesting. Uh, but I think it's a conversation for another time

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Um, I like how at the end, you know han's been taken off. He's in carbonite

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Lando is strangely wearing his clothes, which doesn't make any sense, but whatever

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Um, and he's going off to try to help you know track him down and free him from boba fet or bobafet as some people might call him

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Gosh, that's interesting. But I find it more interesting that uh, luke and leah are in essentially their outfits from a new hope and

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outfits from a new hope and they've kind of reset and they're at safety and at you know face camp or whatever and

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you know this journey is over but

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The way they're looking out at that nebula or whatever and enjoying the vista

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um, you know, there still is hope despite the gains and the victories that the empire has had there's still a chance for

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uh for the rebels to come out and to have a victory and to

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You know come to the other side of this this very dark place that they're in

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And you know come into the light and everything and that's that's cool. That's interesting

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I like that as dark as it was it ends on a hopeful note and

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I really like it

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I really like it. I like that, you know luke is lost. Anyway, he says he'll go back and complete his training

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But we'll talk about that another time

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Um, I want to I didn't I think I forgot to mention this earlier and I wanted to really badly

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So i'm gonna just say it real quick before I go

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Uh at one point in bespin in the pits right before luke's knocked out onto that, uh

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Walkway and then he's backed off into the corner where he gets his hand cut off

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Vader at one point luke's walked through a hallway vader at one point

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Be quiet so that he can stealthily attack luke and uh, i've heard it referred to as a jump scare

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and it's cool because it the I think there's no music in the moment. It's very quiet and then

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when vader attacks then his breathing kicks back in but it implies that he uh, you know suppressed his breathing in order to

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Uh, you know trap luke like I said, so that's kind of a fun and interesting point and it's something I never thought about

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I hadn't thought about too much before but if you think about the way vader has to operate

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You know, it means that he he must have done that on purpose and that's kind of it's cool to think about

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Um, you know vader anakin using even his you know suits

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the reality of the way his suit works and the way, uh, you know, everybody can hear that breathing to his advantage in order to

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make a surprise attack and

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it shows like the desperation and the

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The desperation the dedication and the like tactical cleverness that this guy uses

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On a daily basis you could say uh to get done what he needs to get done

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So I appreciate that and I think that's cool and I don't know thinking about vader and looking at him

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as

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Anakin and now having luke know that

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Even though he didn't know anakin's history before it just it just it just makes things more interesting more exciting. I think um

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Maybe that's why I just liked the way vader and anakin were handled in

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the sequel trilogy because he should have gotten a lot more

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He should have had a lot more involvement and

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Had a lot more exposure and a lot more, uh, you know weight in the story, but it didn't so anyway

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Um, I don't really think I have anything else to say. I liked this movie. Oh

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I I came up with a joking title for it. This could be star wars episode 5 the jedi conspiracy here the jedi conspiracy

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is uh

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The jedi conspiracy is oh we won and yoda keeping from

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Luke that his father is anakin and then later that his you know sister is, you know

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So that's kind of interesting kind of fun. So anyway, that concludes my coverage of

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The empire strikes back and next i'll be talking about return of the jedi and then i'll talk about that asoka show and we'll see

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If it's good together

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