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The Empire Strikes Back

The Son's Face in the Father's Helmet
In the middle installments of the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy, a father loses his helmeted head and a son reflects on it.
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Timothy Lawrence
Knowledge is Power
In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda tells Luke Skywalker, "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack." The Jedi view knowledge as a…
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Timothy Lawrence
Redeeming Attachments
Across the nine-film Skywalker Saga, there is a movement away from seeing attachment only as a cause for destructive fears and toward seeing attachment…
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Robert Brown
Confronting Fear
The nine-film Skywalker Saga begins, reaches its central turning point, and ends when Jedi masters choose to train new apprentices in spite of fear …
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Robert Brown
Chewie Wails While Han Freezes
In both the first and third acts of The Empire Strikes Back, Chewbacca wails because Han Solo is going to be frozen.
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Timothy Lawrence
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Judging by Size
In The Empire Strikes Back, the diminutive Jedi Master Yoda instructs Luke Skywalker to use the Force to lift his crashed X-Wing out of a swamp.
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Timothy Lawrence
Dooku's Temptation
In the second installment of every Star Wars trilogy, a villain tempts a hero to join him on the dark side.
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Timothy Lawrence
The Empire Strikes Back Against a New Hope
Read from top to bottom, this is the plot of Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. But if you read it in reverse, it’s the plot of Episode IV: A New Hope.
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Robert Brown
Bombs Away!
The opening space battle of The Last Jedi has drawn the complaint that bombs can’t be dropped in zero-gravity space.
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Robert Brown
Lobot
In The Empire Strikes Back, Lando Calrissian has an aide named Lobot, who helps him run Cloud City.
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Timothy Lawrence
Jedi Warriors
The second installment of each trilogy of episodes centers on the Jedi's relationship with war.
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Timothy Lawrence
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