From: umwieb69@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brent Michael J. Wiebe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: The Star Wars That might have Been (3/3(?))
Keywords: This is last post re Skywalking that I'll make.
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:48:47 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Here's more from "Skywalking."  As before, by Dale Pollock copyright 1983
published by Harmony Books.  The ISBN number is 0-517-54677-9.  This part
is taken from page 148.

"Lucas sent Alan Ladd, Jr. a synopsis of his second draft on May 1,1975.  'The 
Star Wars' was now episode four in the Adventures of Luke Starkiller, 'an 
engaging human drama set in a fantasy world that paralyzes the imagination...
A story not only for children, but for anyone who likes a grand tale of wonder
on an epic scale.. filled with marvels and strange terrors, moral warmth and,
most of all, pure excitement.'"

"The third version was delivered August 1,1975.  Luke has become a farmboy, son
of the famous late Jedi Knight, Anakin Starkiller.  Owen Lars is Luke's bitter
uncle who steals his nephew's savings to keep his farm going.  A hologram of
Princess Leia, now sixteen, begs for help in delivering R2-D2 to the rebel
stronghold on a faraway planet, because he contains the plans of the feared 
Death Star.  Luke searches for General Kenobi, his father's comrade, but is
captured by sandpeople."

"Ben Kenobi,'a shabby old desert rat of a man,' saves Luke, but has to be 
persuaded to aid the rebels.  They meet Han Solo, a 'tough James Dean-style 
starpilot, a cowboy in a starship: simple, sentimental, and cocksure.'  Solo
and his copilot, a Wookiee named Chewbacca, agree to transport the two passen-
gers and their robots to the rebel planet on their space freighter, usually 
used for smuggling."

"The Kiber Crystal is still the symbol for the Force, but Lucas more clearly
establishes the dichotomy between good and evil: black-garbed Darth Vader
versus white-haired Ben Kenobi.  For the first time, the phrase "May the 
Force be with you" is heard, a variation of the Christian phrase, 'May
the Lord be with you, and with your spirit.'  Leia, who has the mind-control
powers of a witch, is captured and tortured by Vader until rescued by Han and
Luke.  Ben searches for the Kiber Crystal and encounters Vader, with whom he
has a fierce light-saber duel.  Ben is wounded but saved by Han and Luke in time
to pass the powerful crystal to Luke.  With its aid(not that of the Force), Luke
attacks and destroys the Death Star."

There, that should just about do it.  Now if you want more Skywalking, I
suggest you find a copy for yourself, because there is a lot more there than
I posted, and there are lots of interesting insights etc.

Regards,
Brent Wiebe
umwieb69@ccu.umanitoba

"Skywalker, Skywalker.  And why do you come to walk my sky?  All your life
have you looked away...to the horizon, to the sky, to the future."

-Yoda, from the fifth draft of ESB by Lawrence Kasdan 


-- 
"Infinite:  Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.  Much bigger than
that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow,
that's big' time.  Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself
looks really titchy.  ... huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."