Nicholas King asked Ian Doescher:

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Ian Doescher After I wrote William Shakespeare's Star Wars—in which there's a scene that's not in the movie featuring two stormtroopers talking about the rebels escaping in the Millennium Falcon—I decided I wanted to write a scene in every book between two stormtroopers. These scenes aren't in the movies, and they're sort of poking fun at the movies themselves. The conversation about bottomless pits seemed appropriate for Empire, since Luke ends up at the bottom of one!

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