History WMG / TheEmpireStrikesBack

[[WMG:Why did Darth Vader have the ''Millennium Falcons'' Hyperdrive repaired but deactivated? Did he actually intend to have them flee from Bespin and give a mock chase to make it seem like they had really gotten away by the skin of their teeth? Was it all according to plan for the upcoming Battle of Endor in the next film? ]]

It's been mentioned elsewhere that Lando is wearing Han's clothes at the end of Empire. This troper believes he knows why- Lando didn't have time to pack before the evacuation of Cloud City so the only clean clothes available to him are the ones in Han's quarters on the Millenium Falcon.
* The Millenium Falcon used to be Lando's ship, before it belonged to Han. The captain's closet in the Falcon is full of identical outfits, and those clothes actually belonged to Lando. So instead of seeing Lando wearing Han's clothes at the end of Empire Strikes Back, we are actually seeing Han Solo wearing Lando's clothes during the rest of the trilogy.

[[WMG: Han Solo was a Nerf Herder before coming a smuggler.]]

Leia was right he does act like a Nerf Herder since he was one before getting the Falcon.

And Luke Skywalker had to just say "Ridiculus" when he entered the cave. This would turn "Darth Vader" into Dark Helmet immediately. Yoda was expecting this from Luke.

* Or perhaps this first meeting with Luke was what started Vader on the path back from the Dark Side: his only son just rejected him, was willing to plunge to his (potential) death rather than join him. At the end of ESB Vader is pensive, and when he next meets Luke, he seems to have been contemplating his own relationship with the Dark Side. "It's too late for me, son," he says, as if he wishes it weren't.

* This fits in with the film's opening prologue, which mentions that Vader is "obsessed with finding young Skywalker". And, previously, he'd been obesessed with finding a way to save Padme and, years later, with finding the Death Star plans. Basically, you'll probably be alright as long as you don't get between Vader and his all-consuming goals.

Yoda tells Luke that in the cave was "only what you take with you." Luke took his weapons, and Vader appears before him, and when Luke decapitates him, the mask explodes revealing Luke's face. [[MortonsFork But even if Luke went in unarmed, Vader would still have appeared and attacked]] because what Luke truly took in with him was his deep-seated fear and anger, which Vader embodied.

[[WMG: The Cave encounter was an UnwinnableTrainingScenario.]]

** Alternatively, Crix Madine may have had something to do with it. He defected to the Rebellion [[RogueSquadron between Episodes IV and V]], but you never know how sincere he actually was.
*** Where was Crix Madine during the battle for Hoth? Certainly not anywhere near Echo Base.

** Even better: it's the remains of ''Alderaan''. The space slugs never bothered anyone before [[DugTooDeep until their planet was blown apart]] (they, being MadeOfIron, survived when nothing else could). That's why Leia is as surprised as anyone to discover they're inside the mouth of one.
*** If that's the case, I imagine that the Empire would try to use this discovery to make them seem more heroic: "Yeah, we [[MoralEventHorzion destroyed a peaceful planet]], [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans but we did it for the greater good!]] [[BlatantLies We knew about the space slugs all along]]-they [[FateWorseThanDeath would've condemned Alderaan to a slow destruction]]. [[FromACertainPointOfView There was nothing we could do to stop them]], [[MercyKill ending their lives was a mercy.]] [[StrawHypocrite Trust us-we're the good guys!]]"

It just makes landing ships sensors go batty, that's why Luke's X-wing crashed. He turned it off so Luke could leave.

It's been mentioned elsewhere that Lando is wearing Han's clothes at the end of Empire. This troper believes he knows why- Lando didn't have time to pack before the evacuation of Cloud City so the only clean clothes available to him are the ones in Han's quarters on the Millenium Falcon.

After everything that went down, Obi-Wan didn't think Vader was capable of redemption, and/or may have thought it better on the galaxy if he'd just [[MercyKill mercy killed]] Anakin on Mustafar. Obscuring certain details was a calculated attempt to make sure Luke would strike down Vader

** [[FridgeBrilliance: He can't stand when people discuss the limits of the Force, because it reminds him that he failed to save his wife like he promised because the Force couldn't do what he wanted.]]

She only kissed him to make Han jealous. There has never been any [[BrotherSisterIncest sexual tension between the two]], ever. It does not exist. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial There was certainly never any indication they were originally going to become a couple]] and the SeparatedAtBirth twist was a huge {{retcon}}. It was [[AllAccordingToPlan all according to GL's master plan.]]

*** His beeping when Yoda showed up is something like "Yoda! It's you! We've come for your help!" rather than being started by his [[StealthHiBye sudden appearance]].

[WMG: Yoda used to be taller.]]

Only problem is, the timeline only gives a year between the battles of Hoth and Endor. Luke's training could conceivably be only a few months, but the others would surely have took years (relative to Dagobah) to make it to Bespin. The solution? One year in the timeline isn't fixed according to how long our Earth takes to go round our sun, but some other planet around another sun, with a much longer orbital time.

And Luke Skywalker had to just say "Ridiculus" when he entered the cave. This would turn "Darth Vader" into Dark Helmet immediately. Yoda was expecting this from Luke.

* Actually, Yoda used the Force to "help" crashing the ship in that place.

* "The species' language"? So [[{{Planetville}} an entire species has only one language]]? What's ours? It it [[EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage Esperanto]], amiko?

Leia was right he does act like a Nerf Herder since he was one before getting the Falcon.