From: jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (Chuck Jordan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Hiding a Skywalker on Tatooine.
Date: 22 Aug 92 07:16:14 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Aug21.143624.14639@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) writes:
>In a previous article, jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle Ks. Jim)) says:
>>Reading the Zahn novels brought up another question about Kenobi
>>hiding on Tatoonie; how did he keep himself hidden from the Emperor?
>>Yoda had that Dark Side Tree-thing cancelling out his presence so
>>would that mean that somewhere near Kenobi's house on Tatoonie there's
>>something similar?  Or was Kenobi just not a powerful enough presence
>>in the Force to be detected at long ranges (after all, Vader didn't
>>sense him until they got on the Death Star)?  Or was Tatoonie just
>>farther from the center of the galaxy than Dagobah was?
>
>Remember what Luke said about Tatooine -- "If there's a bright center
>to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."

Okay, step aside everybody, I just saw Star Wars  again so of course *I*
have all the answers:  (multiple annoying smileys for the humor impaired)

I think Zahn's interpretation of the Force is pretty much doo-doo.  Animals
that can create a bubble in the Force?  So, I would also assume that the
bit about Yoda balancing himself off against a great evil to hide himself
from the Force is also dubious.  If Darth Vader were so inclined, of COURSE
he would know that Ben and Luke were on Tatooine, as Anakin Skywalker, he 
LIVED on Tatooine with his brother Owen.  I'm getting this from the dialogue
in Star Wars.  Ben and Luke talked about Owen as if he were Luke's uncle and
Anakin's brother.  (Ben talking about Owen (paraphrased): "He thought your
father should stay here and not get involved in any war.")  I don't think
Darth Vader was all that interested in killing Luke OR Ben OR Yoda (if he
even know Yoda existed) until he started to see that Luke was strong in
the Force and could be a threat.  Remember, in the first movie, they were
still relying most heavily on their technology and didn't put much emphasis
on the powers of the Force (I'm getting this from the scene on board the
Death Star where it is evident that Grand Moff Tarkin, not Darth Vader, is
in charge.)  After the Death Star got blewed up and Darth was back in
charge, THEN the Force started getting more important.  I also believe that
no matter how powerful you were in the Force, you couldn't detect a jedi
master like Yoda or Ben on planets far, far away, so there's no need for a
"Force-cancelling" effect.

If Owen is Anakin's brother, why isn't he also Force-sensitive?  He could
be, he just never trained to develop it because he didn't believe in the
war; he wanted Anakin to stay behind.  And as for the Force being inherited,
I say fooey-kerplooey!  It's never directly stated in the movies (Leia
could be the "other" just because she's a strong-willed person) and seems
like a pretty cheezy concept.

And why did C3PO call the Princess the Princess once and then say he didn't
know who she was?  Well, we already saw that 'droids can be devious -- in
ANH again, R2 asks Luke to take off his restraining voice, claiming that he
might be able to play the rest of the message.  So, I think 3PO of course
knew who she was, but he was downplaying her importance.  Not because he
thought Luke might be with the Empire -- 3PO had already stated that he was
on a Rebel ship -- but because he had a new master and really didn't think
it that important and didn't want Luke to pay too much attention to the
message if it were important.  "Screenwriter error."  Pah!

Any more questions?
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