Australian Reacts to Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | First Time Watching 

I never realised lmaoooo

Right, we're never told what species Yoda and Grogu are. When we saw Grogu for the first time, since we didn't know what to call him we just said "its a baby yoda," and it kinda stuck.

@@shrodingerschat2258 I said it was a baby Yaddle. 😆😆

Grogu is a Disney Dollar Yoda!

Grogu by his undisclosed species' standard IS a baby, but is canonically 50 years old.

Oooo makes sense!

@@icedquokka something you have to understand and a lot of reactors. Don’t realize this for some reason. Three years have passed between the events of the first movie and the second. In those three years, Han Solo has given up his entire life for rebellion because of her. They have been through many adventures together in this interim time. I have an intermittent more than one occasion. Han knows his limits, Han knows where he stands with her and how much he can get away with. They both love each other, the problem is, she’s so wrapped up in a mission that she can’t afford the law herself to reciprocate those kinds of feelings though, he can see right through her. While he’s been saying it for three years without so much as a word but through his actions. They are both far too prideful for their own good. The entire point of the love story of this chapter is that Han has been trying to get Leia to admit to her self that she’s in love with him. While the line “I Know” was ad-libbed, it’s completely in keeping with his character. As he is really telling her, “I won.” I guess it’s a comforting thought. When you know you’re not gonna see her again.

@@brucechmiel7964 To be fair, Han didn't stay JUST because of Leia. At the beginning of Empire you can see that that thing is still VERY tentative and only starting to blossom. It's not made explicit, but he clearly also has grown to care about Luke (so has Chewie), like a little brother. We don't learn a lot about Han's backstory in the movies, but it is generally accepted knowledge that he only became a "loner space pirate" because he fell afoul of the Empire when he freed a group of Wookie slaves as a young flight officer, fresh from the academy. Falling in with the Rebels allowed him to reawaken his dreams of serving a greater purpose. Han has a lot to offer, the rebels accept and appreciate him for it and gave him a place to belong.

​@@brucechmiel7964 To be fair, the film doesn't really make the passage of time very clear at all- either between films or during them. I don't know if it's in the novelizations or other supplemental materials, but even though time is clearly passing it's difficult to gauge just how much from the film alone. I actually have sort of the same issue with Luke's training sequences with Yoda, I might add.

@@icedquokkathe reason why obi-wan vaporized into thin air is because he turned into a force ghost meaning he became one with the force, and he turned into a force ghost before Darth Vader hit him with his lightsaber

Oooooo i didn’t catch that!! Hopefully luke keeps yodas secret

I'm not sure that's strictly true. Nobody had reason to believe Yoda was dead either. Vader saw Luke was with Ben on the Death Star, so he naturally assumed it was Ben's training.

100% Just the context alone helps. In the first movie, Luke says "if theres a bright center to the universe, you're in the place it's farthest from," and "Ben," hasnt used his real name "General Obiwan Kenobi," since "oh...before you were born"(Luke is about 19 or 20). So clearly, ben has changed his name and had been in hiding for 2 decades. Same thing with Yoda, he's on this swamp planet that is so remote and so low tech that he has to steal Luke's flashlight (lamp) because he probably has to use candles to see at night. If you're a legendary Jedi Master, you should be in some high profile high prestige location, not living under a tree in a swamp. Like Ben, Yoda is clearly in hiding from the rest of the universe in a hard-to-reach and hard-to-see location.

@@williamshelton4318 a bit different if it's a fugitive capable of retreating to another planet though

@@williamshelton4318Not to mention that he was hiding near at least one area with a strong Dark Side imprint which would have shielded him from anyone looking for him through the Force, and the abundance and density of life on the planet would have masked him from sensors. In the extended universe lore, these are also the reasons the rebel base was located in an ancient temple on one of the moons of Yavin. The temple was created and inhabited by Dark Side adherents for several thousand years, creating an imprint, while the life of the junglr would hide them from casual scans. Dunno how all that fits into the Disneyverse now, though.

The first film with CGI was 1973, so CGI did exist.

This is a post-special edition version. There is a mixture of late 1970s physical effects, 1990s special edition CGI and then updated CGI added at several points since then (Lucas kept going back to tweak things). A first time viewer would find it difficult to distinguish original material from the updates.

@@zarabada6125 True, there are several additional scenes not in the original release... George Lucas created "Industrial Light and Magic" (1975) a special effects studio to make Star Wars, he pioneered a lot of the methods to create physical and "special" effects - specifically for these films.

Omg so it’s like picture stop motion? That’s so incredible 😍 it looks fantastic!

​@daveofyorkshire301 CGI existed. But it was not widely used in movies until the late 80's early 90's. It literally was used in like 5 or 6 movies before then. In the Star Wars movies the only CGI that Was used was the plans for the Death Star in Star Wars and ROTJ. It was used in Star Trek the Wrath of Khan, they used it for the computer animation that showed what Genesis was and did. It was first used extensively in "Tron". It was used to create the Owl in the opening and ending sequence in "Labyrinth" with David Bowie, it was used in the "The Last Starfighter" quite a bit. Tron and The Last Starfighter were kind of a movies used as experiments to see how audiences would respond to the CGI of the times. In fact Tron, The Last Starfighter and Labyrinth are great movies to watch to get an idea of how good CGI was in the early to mid 80's. It wasn't very realistic looking at all, it looked like a Nintendo 64 video game. It wasn't until "The Abyss" and "Terminator 2" that CGI became good enough to be considered seriously as a usable medium for film. And it wasn't used regularly in films until "Jurassic Park". Almost everything in all films before 1989 was done with practical effects (except the few instances mentioned above). Any CGI that was used was used very sparingly because it just didn't look good (realistic) until the early 90's. So many people today watch films from the 70' and 80's and make comments like "the CGI was really good then" or "I'm impressed by the CGI" etc. But the films they're talking about had 0 CGI in them. They're all practical effects. One of the big reasons for this problem is that George Lucas went back into the original theatrical releases of episode 4, 5, ad 6 in the early 2000's and added in CGI scenes and creatures. There's several videos on RU-vid that show side by side comparisons of the original theatrical release and the added CGI scenes. Since then they've even refined and added in more CGI into the Star Wars films.

He’s so cool 😎

And Han, through his actions, has been demonstrating his devotion to Leia throughout the film. By the time they reach the asteroid field, it should be obvious to Leia that Han cares for her. What surprises Leia is that she cares for him, too. And it takes a while for Leia to admit it, even to herself.

Because he did know

It was pretty shocking 🤣

The original line for Han was 'I Love you too' but Harrison didnt like it and had it changed.

@@icedquokkaIt's actually right in line with his character. Solo was cocky and self-confident but also afraid to show weakness and emotion. At this point in his character arc, we know that he loves Leia, but "I know" is a perfectly consistent response.

@@dmaul1973 me too 😏

They were verbally jousting the entire movie. 'you didn't have to do this to impress me' is a Great savage line from Leia. Han got the last laugh tho... Kinda 😅

Calling him space Hitler is exaggerating, he's more like space Himmler.

@@StarkRGLiterally stole every word from my fingertips!

I think the plan all along was to tell him, when he was ready. He wasn't ready to face Vader, but he still managed to do the right thing

Then you realize, he the space wizards weren't just lying to you, they were literally trying to gaslight you into uwittingly killing your own father.

Close enough.

It’s a great experience so far 😊🫶

Wow good on George Lucas!

As it should be. Makes the answers more epic

I've also read that those scenes were shot like, 20 feet away from their hotel! I guess with that much snow you can't get far haha

He’s awesome 🫶

Han got cut off mid-sentence...he going to add, "...all the chicks do."

It's bad enough when your boss fires you over Zoom, let alone choking you to death...

Ooooo ok! That would make more sense because they way did it made me immediately think they were on a completely different ship hahaha makes more it wasn’t through video but through feel

19Km long? That's the size of Manhattan!

@@homiedclown I've tried to convince my boss to tell me on an MS Teams call, "You've failed me for the last time and then I'll choke & fall down in front of the customer" So far, we haven't had the right opportunity.

Did anyone ever think about the possibility of Admiral Ozzel being a traitor to the empire and thus a good person who was pretending to be dumb? I think he was aiding the Rebels escape on purpose and I salute him for his sacrifice. 🫡

Oooo that makes sense!

@@icedquokkaThe Jedi also had a doctrine of having no emotional attachments as they can be used to corrupt or blackmail a Jedi so that's another reason they would be separated from their parents very young to cut off those attachments but IMO it was bad policy as you raised a bunch of emotionally immature people who have never learned to handle complex emotions. The Jedi should have been trained to deal with these emotions rather than avoid or suppress them IMO.

@@ronweber1402Oh, there's a _whole_ conversation to be had about the mistakes of the Jedi, of which the dogma of emotional detachment is a large part, but that's a prequel discussion so we'll have to put it off until then.

LMAO

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Haha!

Haha

She should also watch the prequels before continuing the Mandalorian...

@@havok6280 plus the entire Clone Wars

That’s so awesome! Cool technology

How embarrassing to floating around in that thing, almost nude, in front of everybody.

​@billolsen4360 think of it as a kind of ointment. It needs to be in skin contact to be effective, and the glass tube is for manually checking in on the patient.

I totally didn’t realise omg hahaha

Just like Anakin before him

@@pauljester4078 That's the joke

Cookie Monster and Grover, also.

SO, much better looking than with the CGI in the prequels. Jabba looks better also, especially from the 90s rerelease.

I completely agree with you.

Probably helped they were banging each other IRL

That line always gets me in the feels. I suspect that line didn't make Leia mad--she understood the subtext--Han didn't have to say the rest.

I believe the original line Han said was I love you, but they didn't think it fit the character and one take Harrison Ford improvised that "I know" line. It also leads to an interesting take in the next movie.

Omg he did to hahaha

Never like Yoda too much. He was a downer, sold Luke short, criticized him all the time. When Luke experienced failures during his training, Yoda should have taken the chance to remind him that he used the force to destroy the Death Star not too long ago. You've got to tear students down and build them up to remind them that they have performed when the chips were down.

@@billolsen4360 luke also left early so we don't know how much longer luke had left and what yoda's plan was for later.

@@billolsen4360 Yoda may have been something of a tough teacher, but that's exactly how Lucas wanted his personality to be.

​@@billolsen4360I agree with you. He's good for a laugh. And he was fun to use in the Star Wars Battlefront 2 game. 🎮 But after seeing the 6 movies many times I think he sux. Like in ep 1 he sent 2 knights to handle the unknown problem and you know what happened. 🤔 I'm talking about the end bit, not the start bit. And in 3 he admitted that he was a failed leader. Not his exact words. But that's my opinion. I don't hate him, but I think he kinda sucks. But seeing him on Luke's back makes me chuckle. 😂

It was also totally improvised. One of the best lines in history!

Omg hahahaha chicken walkers 🤣

@@icedquokka That's a fowl joke!

It’s important to him!! The only thing he had left from obi wan 😭

I like this take 😊

Yeah that’s I’m thinking to!

It wasn't a trap. It's like training in martial arts... you've trained barley and then you have to fight fucking batman. Luke stood no chance it was insane he lasted as long as he did. If vador wanted him dead... Luke would of been dead instantly

@@robogreek3157 But Luke was warned several times not to go. By Yoda, by Obi-Wan, even Leia-So he knowingly walked into danger, after being warned off it by the people he trusted most.

@@richlisola1 but that's what makes him a hero... he walked In a fight he stood no chance in just to save his friends

@@robogreek3157 Hero or fool? It’s a knife’s edge.

But Yoda is his father, yeah? Unless there is a home planet for their species and their force abilities are random rather than genetically inherited. There was a female of Yoda's species on the Jedi council, Yaddle. She's probably the mother of Grogu, because the time of episode 1 is about 50 years before that Mandalorian series, I think. 🤔 You don't see Yaddle in episode 2, because of the baby. Not baby Yoda, Yoda's baby. LOL When 900 years old you are, some dames you may have knocked up. 😂

@@berranari1 There is no knowledge about any relationship between Yoda and Grogu. For all we know everyone from their species could be Force sensitive.

I have had a head canon about Yoda’s species for over a decade or two now. You know how the Sith was a species of dark side users and then dark side users of all races adopted the ways of the Sith took the name “Sith” to title their practices? I think the same happened with Yoda’s race and originally they were called the Jedi, and were the first force users who taught everyone else.

LMAO

So you meet with your evil overlords in person instead? 😆

@@mattp6089 Luckily, I manage to keep away from evil overlords. Probably why I've never been force-choked.

​@@user-jg5ie8rc1sayyyye you ain't had good sex until you've force choked someone lmaooooooo 😂😂😂

Email notification: You have a Zoom invitation from Darth Vader Imperial officer: *starts sweating profusely and thinking of ways to steal a ship to desert*

It honestly looks so good!

Oh I understand!

I always felt the cave was like a mirror. Whatever he saw in the cave would react the same way he did. The first thing he did was draw his lightsaber and attack and so that's what the mirror did. If he would have reached out to shake his hand, I always believed the mirror would have done the same thing. When Yoda sent him into the cave, Luke asked what's in there and Yoda said only what you take with you. Luke took his fear

​@@Shawn_Myou see that he did not learn. He drew his saber first when he faced the actual Vader. Obi Wan drew his after Vader.

​@@ellygoffin4200 except in mustafar obi wan ignited his saber first

Thank you so much! 😊🫶🤍

@@williamshelton4318Yeah, I always assumed that Luke used the Force when he was close to one of the openings. The suction did the most part, but a little Force use would make certain he wasn’t smashed into the edge of one of the suction pumps.

Oh wow that’s a big budget jump 😮

Also, only the first Star Wars (Episode IV - A New Hope) was made through a studio/help from a studio (Fox). Empire Strikes Back, is actually an independent film, as George Lucas himself invested and financed in the production. From there he created Lucas Arts Studio and all the other branches, such as Lucas Games Studio etc.

Getting 6 million for that crazy idea was a great success.

Clone wars animated series. 1 milllon. Each episode

Actually, A New Hope had a budget of about 11 million dollars, which was still fairly small back in the late 70s.

Omg that’s so cool!

@@icedquokka in fact, Stuart Freeborn actually had actually modeled Yoda after his own appearance

​@@icedquokkaIf you listen carefully you can hear that Yoda and Miss Piggy have the same laugh. 😂

@@berranari1 Oz also did other muppet voices, notably Grover, who sounds a LOT like Yoda, enough that when I first saw Empire at 11, I thought, "Why does this little alien dude sound like Grover?" I didn't realize Frank Oz was the puppeteer/voice actor until later.

@@rikk319 yeah and it is kinda weird that Frank Oz is in The Blues Brothers and so is Carrie Fisher. And he is not funny and she is not nice. But it works in that.

That’s so awesome 😍

Those troopers don't make it into battle if one little fighter jet wraps his cable around them and brings them down 30 feet to earth.

Yep, here too, had almost everyting as a kid.. X-wing, TIE-fighter, Falcon, Ewoks village, Empire's shuttle, AT-AT and lot of figures.... those when these movies were fresh, form the 80's. Too bad i did not kept them, and was either destroyed while playing or lost, would be sold in big dollar for collectors, i also had the original Boba Fett that was bidded crazy on ebays some years ago. My Baba Fett had a nice ending, we strapped him to a new year's fireworks, he sure got that rocket going LOL !

@@johto You may have even had more than I did then. I didn't have the Falcon or the shuttle. My parents bought me the darth vader head carrying case to carry my figures in. All my kids toys came up missing one year out of the attic, not sure what happened to them.

@@Parallaxus Haha, good times ! 🤓

LMAO

I filmed them on the same day so spent all week editing it! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😊 I’m really loving this series and Empire strikes back in my favourite so far as well 😍

@@icedquokka You did an amazing editing job! I'll be looking forward to your reaction to Return of the Jedi.

“Size Matters not, look at me, judge me by my size do you? and well you should not, for my ally is the force and a powerful ally it is." I've tried this line. It doesn't work with real women.

Ooo I’m excited for the next one

@icedquokka The next movie is when Jabba had been officially introduced. The scenes in "A New Hope" that showed Jabba were added in for a re-release that added previously unreleased footage, in this case, due to the cost of the effects at the time being far too expensive

Except the dark side is the sticky side! 😂

Hahaha yeah pretty much, I just watched it because I love Pedro Pascal, I don’t even remember anything from it 💀

Well now you have to do episode 1I, II, III, Solo, then Rogue One

What month were you born?

Yeah it’s pretty scary, I would have cried to 🤣

Yeah, I did not believe it. I totally thought he was trying to trick Luke and I didn't believe all the way until "Return of the Jedi" came out and they confirmed it. I was like, "Holy shit, he wasn't lying." I was ten in 1977 when I saw Star Wars in the theater. I feel like you and I were kinda around the perfect age.

Yeah makes sense ! The I know very much aligns with his personality

No worries 😊🫶🤍

Thank you so much! That means a lot 🫶🤍

I’m so glad I didn’t have to watch 3 years 🤣

Thank you for understanding 🫶🤍