My brother sent me a link to this series of photographs from the set of Empire Strikes Back, thirty years ago, courtesy of Vanity Fair. Click here

to view them all. Everyone looks so young. If you do the math, Darth Vader would have been in his early forties by this point, if he was in his early twenties when he sired Luke, and Luke is about 20 in Episode IV. Yeah, I’m older than Homer Simpson and almost as old as Darth Vader. . . .