Les Jones

A&E > Notes on The Empire Strikes Back

I bought the Star Wars DVD boxed set as a birthday present to myself, so this week Melissa and I are having a Star Wars marathon. Some notes from tonight:

• Luke Skywalker turns out pretty well for an orphan farmboy who dropped out of Jedi school.
• At Christmas time between episodes IV and V someone must have given Darth Vader the Old Spice Helmet Polish Gift Set. That is one shiny helmet.
• The scene where Leia kisses (her brother!) Luke to make Han jealous is grody.
• But Leia's hair looks a lot better than in "A New Hope." Actually, everyone's hair looks better. But the movie would have more sci-fi street cred if everyone had '70s feather hair, like in Battlestar Galactica. Can I get an amen?
• If Princess Leia had paid off Han's debt to Jabba she wouldn't have spent the next episode almost naked and in chains in Jabba's cave. That would have been a great loss to all of us who went through puberty in that era.
• Speaking of which, there's a Web site called Leia's Metal Bikini, or as I like to call it, The Greatest Web Site on the Entire Internet.