Summary: May the 4th Be with You. Forty years ago, the world anxiously awaited the sequel to George Lucas’s space-age fairy tale Star Wars. Would this much anticipated sequel live up to the blockbuster standard of the original? Could a sequel ever be as good as the “lightning-in-a-bottle” zeitgeist from 1977? In hindsight, these questions of critics (and even some fans) were no cause for concern, since many fans now consider The Empire Strikes Back their favorite episode in the Skywalker Saga.
