Imperial Fiasco

[james_davis_nicoll]

How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe? The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force, as evidenced by all of the pieces of Death Star littering space. But of all the Empire’s failures, none is a more spectacular military fiasco than the Battle of Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back.

Comments

[mishalak]

Ah but what they do not understand is that it is a movie, not a documentary. It is also fantasy and not science fiction. Quite fun, but everything that happens is in service to a story and trying to derive rules and logic from it is as sensible as trying to understand time travel by watching Doctor Who.