Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - 120 of the Biggest Questions ANSWERED (Compilation) 

I always assumed "e chu ta" translated to "eat sh*t" 😂

"Hey man what year is it?" "Oh it's... 12 before battle of yavin" "What's the battle of yavin..." "I... I don't KNOW..."

I loved this video. Didn't skip a single piece. I rewatched several segments over. The comments have added great value to an immediately instant necessity for Star Wars fans, serious or casual. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

"From a certain point of view" is doing some serious heavy lifting.

I am sleeping to this like it's a bedtime story. Thank you Alex and Mollie for being the positive light in the Star Wars RU-vid community!

I know what I will be watching during the weekend with a nice glass of wine. Wow... thank you Alex and Molly for being the best Star Wars channel.

now it's prequel time

Woot nice this is gonna be a good one to leave on in as ambient background. Also been noticing a lot of salty comments in the shorts uploads of these individual questions complaining about the point of it all when George never came up with it from 1977-1983. How come all of a sudden its a problem when this franchise has existed for almost 50 years?

I really like the idea of Luke tricking the guards into thinking that they’re being choked at Jabba’s Palace. It legitimately seems like something Jedi like Luke and Qui-Gon would do

You better believe I'm gonna watch this whole thing even though I watched all the individual ones.

The 'Theta' class dropship can carry 4 AT-ATs and 8 AS-STs in one trip. There are other dropships/ landing barges that can carry numerous combinations of vehicles and walkers.

24:07 Something most people forget... these are supposed to be modern telling of stories being told about people and events far far away, and a long long time ago, thus their languages and most idioms are being translated into something understandable to this audience. So an X-Wing, in our language, evokes a look, it may not be a literal translation, but something that evokes that shape to the people as it was then/there.

So what's the "From a Certain Point of View"-gymnastics answer for Luke and Ben having zero problem in telling two helpless droids the entire Empire is looking for to "wait outside" when they're refused service? A New Hope should have ended when they exit the cantina and the droids are gone forever.

Recently discovered your videos and am loving them. Thank you for your awesome work. Just spent the month of March rewatching every single Star Wars DVD I own while recovering from surgery, now I feel the need to rewatch the original trilogy yet again ...

This is such high quality content. Like what a great collection of answers to just have on hand for arguments 😂

Such a good video, as always, thanks Alex and Molly!!!

Thank you for joining us today, Firmus Piett. You are interviewing today for the open position that we have in the Security Department here on Axxila. After reviewing your resume, you were a former Admiral in the Imperial Navy? "Yes." What are your greatest strengths/weaknesses? "I'm a very experienced and able officer, as you can see on my resume. That would be my greatest strength. Weaknesses? Well, I hate working with bounty hunters. I just like to know where a person's loyalties lie before I work with them." How would your previous co-workers describe you? "I was Admiral Kendal Ozzel's personal confidant on many occasions as he was my superior before I served as Admiral on the Executor. He would describe me as loyal, dead pan and blunt at times, but with a dark sense of humor." Tell me something about yourself that isn’t on your resume. "Well, I have excellent survival skills, that's for sure. In one such incident in the past, I was serving as Fleet Admiral in the Imperial Navy when a fighter pilot actually, purposefully flew into the bridge of the Executor, causing the Executor to veer out of control and crash into Death Star II. To this day, I can't believe my luck, but I was able to fall off the dias, scramble off the bridge and get out in an escape pod. I thought I did pretty well all of those years serving Lord Vader and the Emperor directly." Tell me about a past difficult work situation. How did you overcome it? "Lord Vader had replaced Admiral Ozzel and Captain Viett, and I had only just began to serve under him, and there was this particular incident when we were in orbit over Bespin near one of their mining colonies. Lord Vader specifically directed me to deactivate the hyper-drive on a contraband YT freighter. My team did it - I verified the order myself - but in a key moment, the ship got away to hyper-drive as we were readying our tractor beam. I was frozen in shock, and to this day, I have no idea how that happened. But Lord Vader kept me as Admiral, and I overcame my daily fear at first by indulging in my lifetime love of Axxilian Negronis, but I'm happy to say that I'm 3 years sober." Describe a time when you had to work with someone whose personality or work style was very different from yours. "Lord Vader was a very curious fellow at times. One time I even saw him without his helmet, although it was from the rear, but he seemed to have a barely controlled rage about him, and you always had to remain on your toes and be as punctual as possible with him. I demanded a great deal of preparation from my team during that time to have the most flexibility for anything to happen, and to be ready for any order to be given. I basically did whatever he told me." Very well! We expect to fill the position soon and we'll be in touch. "Thank you."

Thank you for answering these questions from canon, legends, and realistic standpoints.

OMG. "DiD tArKiN kNoW vAdEr WaS aNaKiN 😜?'" VADER LITERALLY REFERRED TO OBI-WAN AS HIS "OLD MASTER" TO TARKIN IN THE FIRST MOVIE!!! 😂😂😂😜😜😜

That was one of the best videos about star wars I ever watched. Such a great piece of content to listen to while driving or in the background ❤ That's a subscribe!

thanks for the ride, that was really nice. It's so simply easy to see that when the movies are great there are no bigger questions asked.

I always thought the protocol droid that C3PO sees in Cloud City before getting blasted was saying "INTRUDER!"

Bravo 👏🏼 I can only imagine the research you had to do to make this one great job

Next up: Biggest PT and ST Questions ANSWERED

This is the first time I've seen your channel and I just watched an hour+ video from cover to cover. Definitely subscribing right now.

18:31 I personally like the idea that for the dual on the death star, the two of them had known each other for so long faced each other, so many times and were aware of each other styles that it was more of a psychological battle. You will see experienced swordsman facing each other where the battle is over very quickly when somebody finds an opening or somebody else makes a mistake.

Very informative! Thanks :)

The real reason they didn't shoot the escape pod is because YOU DON'T DO THE BUDGET TERRY, I DO!

Of course the emperor knew she was pregnant. He was sending Anikin dreams of her dying in child birth

In the original audiobooks, Luke is heard building his lightsaber. He is frustrated that he can't get it right, until he remembers what Yoda had said to him about letting the Force guide him, instead of trying to force it to work.

I personally loved his movies and antics on screen. God bless his soul

*Why did Han Solo have a Jedi Training Remote?* Me: "Oh who's says its his? Obi-wan probably had one for his own training and knew he needed it for Luke" Star Wars Writer: "WRONG! Here is my page long back Story about this minor Prop"

12 parsecs quote is related to how close he went by the Maw, cluster of black holes. He was fast enough to skip around and not get sucked in.

Can’t we just agree that a bunch of these were just film-making choices? 😂

Man, the "Han shot first" debate: The shots take place after the exchange "He may only take your ship." "Over my dead body." "That's the idea. I've been looking forward to this for a long time." This takes place while Greedo has Han at gunpoint. Han would be STUPID to wait for a second longer.

Thanks again, Alex! 🧾

Ok, the Force choke motivational speech was truly inspirational 😅 - Din

There are many instances in the literary EU that reference hyperspace tracking/pursuit by taking note of a ship's trajectory and jumping right behind on the same vector. A technician listens for the hyperspace wake, like sonar on a submarine to be sure they are following, and hits the hyperdrive kill switch when he hears the target ship sounds like its dropping out of hyperspace. It takes lots of training and skill to be good at it. If you are not in pursuit and just monitoring a ship, you can also take note of the trajectory and accurately guess where they are headed based on the lane they have to be traveling on. A tactic to ambush them then would be the send ships in a chain of hyperspace exits so someone comes out near enough to the target to see them on the realspace tracking sensors. You can jump in any random direction to escape, but it must be a very short jump to ditch the pursuers... a la light speed skipping... before a calculated path must be chosen, cus as Han says you can jump into a star or black hole or something if you do not use proper calculations. The light speed skip is a tactic that is described in canon. You make a couple short random jumps to hide which way you are really going cus, like I said, there are only so many clear lanes and possible exit points because of objects and gravity wells and an ambusher could accurately guess where you are headed. But the odds of light speed skipping to 3 random places like in the movie would be highly unlikely. And your hyperdrive motivator would drop you out of hyperspace before you came near enough to be within a planet's atmosphere when you came out. And it wouldn't let you jump back out so near a gravity well. So the way its done in TROS is impossible. Most long hyperspace trips did require multiple stops and course changes to get across the galaxy without running into something. Though its not really the object you collide with, but the displacement in space-time its mass/gravity creates. In hyperspace you are not on this dimensional plane, so small objects like asteroids and other ships you pass right through. But the gravity shadow of massive objects can be collided with. The Holdor Manuever... its the space-time disruption that destroyed the star destroyer, not the matter of the ship jumping into it. It would be somewhat difficult to pull off because if you jump too early you pass right through and your wake disipates. Jump too late and you just crash into the target, and a ship that size, it wouldnt have been a killing blow, just a hole in the hull. It's gotta be timed just right. And there is a possibility Holdor survived. For reals. Though most likely, her ship broke up from thr disruption as well, and it and her corpse will be hurtling through hyperspace til it eventually gets pulled into a gravity well.

Nah, Han definitely shot first. It's the very first version made and released and it's how George wants it. No argument here, fact is fact. And it definitely does matter.

2:43 Now we need a series of three (or four) trilogies explaining why Uncle Owen “simply doesn’t care”. GIT ON IT DISNEY!

That extra dot on the crawl would've put them over budget ;)

Kessel Run may have been more of an obstacle course than a race from A to B.

The medal one: I always figured that the big reason Leia honored them was because they rescued her on the Death Star. Wedge wasn’t there.

6:40 - In the novel he also looks at R2 While luke was talking to Han and says to him "It's been a long time, Old friend."

skywalker being a common name is really funny to me

@30:51 Being a Warhammer fan, I straight up thought of the Warp. I had no idea that Chaos was a thing in Star Wars; albeit in not the same way.

Oh boy, it's 'Biggest Questions ANSWERED' Prequal Trilogy edition time!

For those who are interested, there is a fanfic re-creation of Vader vs Kenobi on the death star to be found here on youtube and it's pretty great!

There is an in universe explanation about Han stating that the Falcon made the Kessel Run in 12 par secs that makes more sense then bragging. Hyperspace lanes have specific routes that you take. Vessels are also equipped with gravity well indicators that would drop vessels out of Hyperspace to prevent them from slamming into planets. The gravity wells in the Maul would pull ships out of Hyperspace, so safe routes were made around it. So...Han turned off his gravity well indicator and took his own route through the Maul. The "normal" Kessel Run is over 12 par secs. But "Han's" route was under 12 parsecs, because he took chances that allowed him to evade pursuit.

"As clumsy as he is stupid". Stupid for spying on vader/ the empire, clumsy for getting caught.

I always wanted to know where Porkins was suppose to go. His ship, during the Death Star attack, starts to break up & Biggs tells him to "Eject"! Where in the cold vacuum of space was he suppose to go? Land on the surface of the D Star, find a maintenance hatch & knock asking if Darth can come out to play?

Yoda "liked" helping younglings.... Can't wait for Star Wars: Operation Yew tree...

An easy fix would've been to establish the Kessel run had several routes and the shortest route was notoriously an extremely treacherous and dangerous run. Perhaps it could've been a pilot's tradition to debate who's ship could make it through the twelve parsec route

Lars is afraid that luke will end up as a sad old man drinking milk.

for the record VADER IS UNABLE TO USE FORCE LIGHTNING. he does not have the knowledge to use it and his suit is specifically designed by palpatine to be easily overloaded by electric discharge. it was a built in fail-safe to ensure under no circumstances could vader defeat palpatine and take control. it was a guaranteed mutal destruction situation.

Blowin' my mind with those dots....

in the original cut of return of jedi , Anakin was his old self but not scared so technically George just wanted to change this retconning his own work. for those of us who remember the untainted cut of the original movies.

I like the funny jokes and Robot Chicken references. Thanks for all the work that went into that movie length utube vid!

When you made the comment about dialing back Luke’s actions with the title change from “revenge” to “return of the Jedi”, it implies that the title is referring to Luke, it isn’t, the title “Jedi” that is “returning” is Anikan not luke, just like “revenge of sith” was him becoming Vader, “return of the Jedi” was him coming back, even if it was his final dying act, it literally saved the universe, it was the culmination of the 6 film story, Anikan was always the central character, which is what made it so cool and 🤯🤯 and such a great story arc

1:24:19 nah nah nah Vader said that because Luke had the high ground

Why Owen didn't recognize the droids: In episode I, 3PO was in Shmi's house before she was married and didn't yet know The Lars family. In Ep 2, the droids remained on the ship so they never met Owen.

It’s also worth noting that Owen and Beru weren’t disintegrated. Disintegration leaves dust behind at most. The Empire burned (i.e. incinerated) Owen and Beru’s bodies.

Uncle owen maybe didn't recognize C3PO, but the robot would remember him and tell him who he was. especially knowing the farm.

Damn, Ret-Con A-Go-Go! (Great video, tho!)

"E CHU TA" Translated to what that old lady said to the new sheriff in Blazing Saddles.

Boba Fett sees Han's hiding trick before.

Sorry, but Palpatine himself has stated that Anakin would never be able to perform Sith lightning due to his debilitating injuries sustained on Mustafar, which included the loss of his only remaining organic arm. The ability to use force lightning is vastly different than improvising in a fistfight due to having only one arm.

Rather than believe that it's a Proto-Star that Luke and Leia are looking at at the end of Empire, I like to believe that they are looking at a galaxy Far Far away.

Re Echo base being a base, I think it's also fairly clear that the Rebellion are still fairly new to the base and so haven't organized everything properly yet

Obiwan never owned Artoo. It was the property of the Queen (not personally but was just another maintenance droid on her ship until he saves the day). And not quite so seriously (and obviously a point of view), in the search for the death star plans, I think Vader just wanted "his" droids back because (1) Artoo is gifted to Anakin as a wedding present from Padme, and (2) he literally built Threepio.

In the Star Wars role playing game one adventure involved going to a space junkyard and going onto a large surviving chunk of the Death Star and it included Vader's quarters which was where Obi-wan's lightsaber was being kept.

The Falcon used its backup class 12 hyper drive

Now THAT's podcasting

I think what made Star wars so great is it didn't have OJ Simpson in it

Question: Are _Tales from Jabba's Palace_ and _Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina_ no longer considered canon? Great video! I just bought _Star Wars From A Certain POV_ . Looks like fun!

I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out and Han shot first. I also have the original dvd set and it shows it there too. Lucas admitted in an interview he changed it when the movie was released again in the 90s

If the Death Star have the size of "a small moon" maybe there was already a little bit of gravity naturally due to the weight, and since the gravitation generators are a real thing in the Star Wars universe, they just needed to install one on the Death Stars to mimic the gravity you can have on an Earth size planet.

I wanna know why Padme acts like a completely different character when she's wearing the Queen outfit lmao. British accent, talks like a robot. It's strange 😂😂

In another Sci-Fi universe hyperspace transition is limited by mass. The warping of space near a mass prevents transitiin to or from hyperspace.The Star Wars universe may have similar physics.

Ok, so I get why Obi-Wan and Owen don't recognize C3PO, but WHY DOESN'T VADER???? He literally built him.

As far as Adm. Piett…he was spared because the failure was NOT his fault.Ozzel and Needa failed epically.

Nice video

Re: C-3PO knowing Leia - 3PO literally says, at about the 3 minute mark "there'll be no escape for the princess this time" while the ship is being boarded. Of course he knows who she is.

ik this has nothing to do with the video but i find tht the greatest duel in star wars is the duel for the flashlight between r2 and yoda in the empire strikes back lol

I read somewhere that Yoda became a Jedi Master at 100 years old

1:14:32. Wrong it wasn’t “The Bothens”. It was one guy…. Manny Bothens

The only question worth asking and answering is Why isn’t the 1977 original version of the movie released…. Really,,, answering questions for 10 years,,, OK

I presumed Wedge didn’t get a medal on screen bc he was part of the alliance so he would get a military award before the others. Luke and Han were civilians so their medals medals would be for rescuing Leia and their part the Death Star attack.

Let's compose ourselves and not complicate this compilation.

44:30 I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Kylo Ren and Snoke visited the cave, with Kylo demolishing it after he saw visions of him and Luke clashing

Alot of lore I didn't know. Though as to vaders lightning according to the kotor games heavy armor interferes with casting force lightning and vader was more machine than man much like grievous

1:20:13 there are just two bearded commandos on the mission. That could work.

Don't forget that they were personally rescuers, of the Princes.

The lightsaber duel between Kenobi and Vader are slower because the actors and stuntman were asked to try and stop the blades just before contact so they'd hit lighter, due to the fact that the blades kept on breaking from normal dueling contact and they only had so many of them.

I can answer all these questions........its in the script. There you go, all the answers right there.

I feel bad for Omi 🥺. And I do like to think Boba Fett could have disintegrated Owen and Beru. Anakin still has a fondness for them and maybe had already …erm…. reprimanded …. Boba Fett. He’s just reminding him, “No disintegrations,” to put the fear of the Force into him. He doesn’t want to be reprimanded again by Vader. That’s how I like to look at it anyway.

UNINTENDED IRONY DEPT. In the novelization of Return of the Jedi, when Obi Wan tells Luke, I sent you to live with my brother Owen on Tatooine. Takes place on get this,, PAGE 66 lol. In paperback format at least. Never perused the hardcover.

How have i gome my whole life without noticing the airspeeder in the background at Lukes house?

You completely failed to mention that Han shot Guido first in the originally released movie. That is like talking about the Titanic sinking without mentioning the Ice Berg.

The pilot at 21:00 is clearly Max Verstappen