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So in Star Wars, they blow up the Death Star, right?

It's the good guys.

It's the Rebel Alliance against the evil Galactic Empire.

And against all odds, the Good Guys, the Rebel Alliance succeeds in blowing up the Empire's most terrifying weapon, this gigantic death star, this weapon they can use to, you know, blow up whole planets.

So at the end of Star Wars, we're basically, you know, Good Guys won Empire Zero. That's Star Wars.

Then three years later, we get the next movie. We get The Empire Strikes Back. And as the name implies, the Empire is not taking it well that they got

spanked in the first movie. They had their Death star destroyed, and so now they are striking back

at the Rebel Alliance. The evil galactic empire is on the offensive, and they are coming for

our heroes. The Empire Strikes Back is just as exciting as the first Star Wars movie,

but it is darker. It is definitely darker, right? Our heroes aren't, you know,

just plucky underdogs like they were in the first movie. It really, really feels like they are

losing throughout much of the Empire Strikes Back. I mean, Empire Strikes Back is where we get,

I am your father, right? The bad guy, Darth Vader, telling our hero Luke

Skywalker that he's Luke's dad. Talk about unwelcome news, right? And he says that to him after

he cuts off Luke's hand. I mean, it's dark. It's dark. The whole vibe of the Empire Strikes

Back is this, you know, the dark dread of this tyrannical

force having the upper hand seeming like it's winning.

And whether or not you've seen Star Wars ever, or whether, like me, you haven't seen any of the movies, like you haven't seen Star Wars

and the Empire Strikes Back since they came out when I was not yet 10 years old. I haven't seen

them since. But still, I'm willing to bet that for you, like me, this sound from the Empire Strikes

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