The Empire Strikes Back - The Most Frequently Asked Questions ANSWERED

After nearly ten years of running this channel, I have seen the same Star Wars questions over and over again. Today I'm answering FORTY of the most frequently asked questions I've seen about The Empire Strikes Back!

0:00 Intro
0:16 Who was the bounty hunter on Ord Mantell?
1:07 Why was Echo Base a mess?
1:49 Does hell exist in Star Wars?
2:30 How did the wampa hang Luke upside down?
3:09 When did Luke learn telekinesis?
3:42 Why did Obi-Wan wait three years to tell Luke to go to Dagobah?
4:45 Did Obi-Wan forget Qui-Gon Jinn?
5:23 What is a gundark?
5:56 When did Darth Vader get control of the Imperial fleet?
6:42 When was the Executor constructed?
7:12 What is Darth Vader's pod?
7:42 From how far away can you Force choke someone?
8:28 Why did Darth Vader kill Admiral Ozzel?
9:09 Was Ozzel a Rebel spy?
9:57 What was Leia's military rank?
10:33 Why didn't the Rebels fly away from the Imperial blockade?
11:18 When was Rogue Squadron created?
11:59 How were AT-ATs deployed?
12:42 What happened to General Veers after the Battle of Hoth?
13:42 Did Yoda forget R2-D2?
14:28 How could Han and Leia walk around inside the space slug?
15:30 What is the dark side cave?
16:20 What does Luke's vision in the dark side cave mean?
17:13 How did Boba Fett know where the Millennium Falcon was hiding?
17:54 How long did Luke train with Yoda?
19:09 What is Cloud City?
19:52 What does e chuta mean?
20:42 Why doesn't Lobot talk?
21:36 Was Leia always meant to be a Skywalker?
22:37 Is that IG-88 on Cloud City?
23:36 How did the Empire beat Han to Cloud City?
24:09 Did Darth Vader actualy serve a meal to everyone?
25:01 Shouldn't Darth Vader know carbon freezing isn't lethal?
25:46 Why did Darth Vader stop Boba Fett from shooting Chewbacca?
26:45 What was in Willrow Hood's camtono?
27:37 Was Darth Vader always going to be Luke's father?
28:30 Why did Darth Vader let Admiral Piett live?
29:26 What did the Rebel fleet do while Luke and Leia were away?
30:08 Why is Lando wearing Han's clothes?
30:57 Is that another galaxy at the end of the movie?

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[PrincessOzaline]

It also seems to me that Piett wasn't really at fault. The Hyperdrive was deactivated, and the fact that the Falcon didn't jump to light speed immediately bore testimony to this. Piett did his job. So Vader might have been contemplative and angry about other things, but unlike Needa and Ozel, Piett didn't directly fail.

[roryotoole]

I think people forget that after Qui-Gon's death Yoda became more of Obi-Wan's mentor. So that would be twice Yoda is instructing him so it actually all made sense.

[MCLegoboy]

A version of the Robot Chicken dinner sketch is absolutely canon to me.

[poozizzle]

Yoda also uses the dark side cave to mask his light side presence from what i remember reading.

[redizit]

Lucy Lawless on the Simpsons said it best "Well anytime you notice something like that, a wizard did it"

[RedCaio]

17:11 in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan hid from Jango and Boba by attaching his ship to an asteroid in Episode II. In the DVD bonus features, John Knoll states that this is how Boba knew that the Falcon must have attached itself to something (rather than thinking it cloaked or something), because Boba had seen that move before.

[mitwhitgaming]

The game Battefront: Renegade Squadron also shows the events on Ord Mantel.

[joelbaumgarten]

It’s funny to me how George Lucas just let Obi-Wan and Yoda interact with R2 a ton during the clone wars and prequels even though they don’t act like they remember him in the original trilogy, but meanwhile he was very very careful to make sure Anakin and Grievous never meet during the clone wars because of one line in ROTS lol

[starwarsunlimited]

Yoda was not the only being to return to Dagobah after experiencing the Dark side cave visions.
Luke did it too, in Return of the Jedi

[HexNottingham]

In A New Hope, Uncle Owen tells Aunt Beru (about Luke) "...there'll be hell to pay."

[biostemm]

We saw scenes in the PT of Yoda training an entire class of younglings, so it isn't weird to think Yoda could have trained Obi-Wan when he was a youngling as well.

[kieferfulsom]

In regards to “Why didn’t the Rebels fly away from the imperial fleet?” I always thought that was answered by Vader himself (when he was choking Ozzl) “Deploy the fleet so that NOTHING gets off the system.” I always took that to mean spread all the ships around the planet to stop them.

[BryanShaw]

The entire time you were talking about the dinner I kept saying Robot chicken, robot chicken. Glad you threw it in.

[ericetodd]

I just watched Empire over the weekend and had some of these questions! How convenient! Great work!

[gabrielbrennan]

Ozzel also conspired with an ISB agent to have Mara Jade killed as a cover up for his failures while she was still working for the Emperor.
She couldn’t prove it, but asked Vader to keep an eye on him.

[Jedi_Spartan]

I can't remember if Han is a General in ESB or if it's not established until RotJ but I've always found it weird that he had a higher rank than Luke despite seemingly being less committed to the Rebel Alliance.

Also very much enjoying these videos.

[Nor]

You should do one of these for every theatrically released movie. The prequels, sequels, in betweens, and even the clone wars movie.

[shaneflanegan]

I love these videos (I love all of them guys) just because I can send them to people when they have questions instead of typing out 19 paragraphs (I’m gonna send the video and some how type 20 paragraphs instead)

[trimbalemrbale]

i read somewhere that between hoth and bespin, it took han around 3 weeks to get to bespin on a backup class 40 hyperdrive. was a large hardcover book published around mid to late 2000s. might have been that picture book that explains alot of ships.

[epa]

Why did Yoda betray Ashoka’s trust when she needed the Jedi’s help the most?