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Date Posted: 10:00:47 05/07/02 Tue
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: Re: A Star Wars question
In reply to: mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "A Star Wars question" on 09:24:25 05/07/02 Tue

The simple (and truest) answer is that, in Star Wars, Princess Leia was not Luke's sister. If he had thought of that relationship when he wrote Star Wars, he would have foreshadowed it in some manner.

Of course, since he made her his sister in Return of the Jedi, we must now go back and explain the inconsistency presented by Star Wars.

When Leia recognized Vader's "foul stench", could that not be some sort of untrained recognition of a tremor in the Force?

Also, in the Star Wars universe, many people are Force-sensitive. He probably would have recognized that she was heavily infested with the Force, and that it was untrained, so he didn't concern himself with it. He didn't know he had a daughter, so it wasn't anything terribly unusual. Just because the Jedi was an extinct order, that didn't mean that midi-chlorians had died out.

In a short story I read, Darth Vader was participating in a Hitler-like parade, and when he looked out on the officers, he felt the Force was strong with one of them. He stopped the parade and addressed that officer, telling him to always trust his instincts. Then Vader went on.

I would say he knew the Force was strong with Leia, and he just ignored the fact as unimportant. The Jedi were extinct, after all.

Of course, there are plenty of other things that tosses Episode 1 out of the window... C3PO is a huge continuity error, for example. "My first job was programming binary load-lifters..." when Episode 1 shows his first job as being a slave to a couple of slaves, not to mention his inability to recognize Tatooine...

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kinda like i thought... -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 15:55:59 05/07/02 Tue