Just why is The Empire Strikes Back a disappointment? Well, one reason is that pratically all sequels fail to live up to the originals because the film-makers are invariably faced with the impossible task of repeating the tingedients that made the first film a success…Empire doesn’t have much of a structure at all. It is just one episode in a much larger story. Expecting us to wait anything between 18 months and three years to find out what happens next is a bit much.
Starburst Magazine in 1980, completely failing to predict the future