From: gestes@regan.next.nd.edu (gregory estes)
Subject: Re: Ben's Lightsaber and T. Zahn
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:30:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.141701.12130@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>  
hatcher@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Donald L.C. Blewett) writes:
> I have seen A LOT of discussion about why Ben's Lightsaber was  
"apparently"
> losing power in his battle with Vader.  Some opions said the force  
powered
> lightsabers and Ben's Force powere was weakening.  Some said it was a
> SF glitch, and others had other strange and wonderful theories.
>   Here's mine:
> I think that he was just running out of power.  I mean, he had been  
sitting
> on Tatoinne for twenty years or so, not using it at all, then Luke shows  
up
> and suddenly he's using it every five minutes.  Maybe the old saber was  
just
> running out of power.  Maybe Ben should have stopped off at the Tatoinne 
> version of a quik mart and picked up some energizers (they keep going  
and
> going!). 
>   And, here's onethat just popped inot my mimd:
> Maybe, his saber wasn't malfunctioning.  Maybe, all of us SW fans,  
having
> been raised on a staple of movies where the good guys never die, can't  
accept
> a movie where one of the good guys, the "last" good jedi, could lose a  
fight
> and die, and all these theories are psychological rationalizations to  
make
> us feal better. Freud I'm not, and I don't mean to flame anyone, least  
of all
> the wonderful fraternity which I belong to (SW FANS!), so if you don't  
agree
> with me, that's cool, if we all had the same opinion, we'd still be  
living in
> caves.
> 
>   On to a more pleasant note, I just read Dark Force Rising last night,  
and
> I was wondering if anyone else had come to the same conclusion as I had.
> Early in the book, Thrawn and cronies mention their high level spy in  
the
> New Republic named "Delta Source".  I at first thought it was the  
Bothan,
> Fey'yla (sp?) but having read the book, I now am convinced it's Winter,
> Han and Leia's servant.  After all, she has a photographic memory, and  
every
> time someone tells her where they are going, Thrawn shows up there too,
> coincidence?  I wonder. 
> 
>   Also, it seems apparant that Mara and Luke will eventually end up  
together,
> if he can ever convince her, that Vader, not him, killed the Emperor,  
that is.
> She still has that compulsion to kill Luke, but it seems to be  
weakening,
> and now that I know why she can't get it out of her mind, it makes a lot  
of
> sense.
> 
>   Well gotta go, one of my profs actually assigned an assginment for  
today,
> quess I better get started.
> 
> Donald L.C. Blewett
> 
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	I agree with all of your conjectures about Dark Force Rising.