Star Wars ~spoiler

Ah yes, me hearties. It has long been rumored here in the cornfields that Luke is theclone of VAder, and that theterm "father" means only the donation of sperm or tissue to generate another Jedci. Glad that our friends outside the citadel of Hoosierland are finallyu cathcing onb.

Looking back at the output of this terminal makes me wonder whteher I can spell....

....Arlan Keith Andrews, Sr., BElll Labs, Indy

yale-com!epstein
Oct 15 1982, 1:33 am
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Of course Darth Vader is Luke's father. Besides the veiled references to Darth (the bad side of the man) killing Luke's father (the side we like) and so forth, the tip-off is that VADER is an obvious cognate to the Indo-european root VATER or FATHER ... get it?

The most interesting question is: OB1 says Luke's "our last hope" (or is it Yoda) and Yoda replies, "no, there is another." (An obvious tie-in for the Revenge of the Jedi!) It can't be Solo because he's too handy with a blaster, not mystical, very impure. I'm positive it's the princess.

Comments?

cwruecmp!ccc
Oct 15 1982, 2:11 am
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I agree with the speculation that the princess is the "other" that Yoda mentioned. My reasons:

1) She is the only one (in the area) that "heard" Luke's call for help as he hung from the bottom of the Cloud City.

2) From the information in the movies, sensitivity to the Force seems to be genetic; Leia's father was OB1's commander in the Clone Wars. To me this implies that he was a powerful Jedi.

3) How did she withstand Imperial interrogation? Vader himself couldn't get the rebel base's location out of her.

4) Last, but not least: It fits into the pseudo-mythical plot that Lucas has been using so far.

Note: I bet people at nodes "dagobah" and "bespin" are chuckling at all of this stuff.

Clayton Elwell