Beyond Star Wars

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2016)

I think that it went beyond Star Wars. You got to know the characters a little better, you had some humour. I thought of The Empire Strikes Back as the second movement of a symphony. That is why you see some of the things slower. And it ends in a way you cannot wait to see to hear the vivace, the next movie, the allegretto. Episode V didn't have a climax at the end. It had an emotional climax. There were something about Empire that immediately just clicked when I saw it. I did not know how all the romance between Solo and Leia were going work and the adventure and were it too serious, and all this sort of stuff. But it really came together. Until its premiere, cases of lighting striking twice were rare in Hollywood. Sequels were nearly always a letdown. But in the Star Wars universe, different laws applied.