SR.FELSHIN%MIT-SPEECH@sri-unix.UUCP (08/03/83)
From: Sue Felshin <SR.FELSHIN at MIT-SPEECH> If Leia was "the other", there wasn't much point to it, as she did next to nothing throughout the film. Yoda says there is "another [hope]" and also that "there is another Skywalk... [cough, gasp, holographize]", but not that the two are the same. I think the other was Vader (or maybe the love he held for his son) and that this is what Yoda meant when he spoke of the other hope, but that Kenobi misunderstood him (being notoriously bad when it comes to understanding Anakin Skywalker). Probably this was intentional on Yoda's part. If Luke found out from Kenobi's loose tongue who (or what) the other was, he would screw up by not acting naturally. If all the above were true, it explains whoeveritwas's query about why no one ever remembers to tell Luke that the Emperor uses the Force. Han doesn't know beans about the Emperor. Neither does Leia (for a senator's daughter, rebel leader and princess, she's singularly uninformed about *everything*, come to think of it). Kenobi is too obsessed with bumping of his strayed protege and proof of his falability to bother about the big E. (First you get Vader, then think about the Emp, Luke.) Yoda, the only person(?) besides Lucas who has the faintest idea of what is going on, doesn't tell Luke because Luke is *supposed* to get trashed by the Emperor, thus convincing Vader to see the light, save his son, and turn once again toward truth, justice, and the holographic way. [Sidetrack. Did anyone who read the book of ROTJ (worst writing I've ever read) notice that in the book Vader didn't go for the Emperor until after he thought Luke was dead, thus changing the entire interpretation of all three movies, and for the worse, to my mind? End sidetrack.] If Luke knew about the Emp and if (unlikely) he were able to beat the Emp, he would still get creamed by Vader, and vice versa if Luke went for Vader. Yoda is cagy. Sue Felshin, Flame Extrordinaire and PaFotSftPoRCD