Hoth

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back came out May 21st 1980, but it was only in 1987, at five years old, that I saw it for the first time. I had seen Episode IV multiple times already (understatement) and knew that I wanted to be a Jedi and make movies. Episode V however, …

For the numerous corpses of rebel infantry and snowtroopers littered about the frozen tundra, amidst the hollowed-out, smoldering wrecks of AT-AT walkers and snowspeeders, the war is over. For the rest of us, it rages on still, an icy mess of tow cables and tauntauns. There looks to be no end in sight to this …