A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope
Keith Martin has taken the time to look back at Star Wars: IV with a different spin on the story using information gathered from Star Wars I-III, and his take is quite interesting, and in my mind might have actually made a better movie, despite the fact that it is the same scenes, just taken in a different context usually. He has named it: A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope.
Obi-Wan has spent the last 20 years in the Tattoine desert, keeping watch over Luke Skywalker and trying to decide on one of the three available options:
A) If Luke shows no significant access to the Force, then leave him alone in obscurity
B) If Luke shows real Force ability, then consider recruiting him as a Jedi. The rebellion needs Jedi. Now.
But, if Luke shows any signs of turning out like his father, then C) sneak into his house one fine night and chop his head off. With great regret but it’ll save a lot of trouble later on.
Knowing this to be the case, Bail Organa (perhaps at the insistence of his wife) has found excuses not to send Leia to Ben for assessment of Jedi potential, largely for fear of option C.To be fair to all concerned, Leia has shown no overt signs of a link to the Force. Luke on the other hand has. In his home-built hotrod aircraft, with no formal fighter pilot training and no decent instrumentation, Luke can regularly score centre-hits on 2-metre targets in complicated zero-altitude maneouvres. Until he attends the briefing on Yavin, Luke has no way of knowing that hardened combat pilots would consider that nearly impossible. To him it’s easy. Obi-Wan, who saw Anakin’s performance in the Pod Race, is nervous.
A very cool take on the story, and one I highly recommend all Star Wars fans read, and try not to think of it as blasphemy.
Carrie said,
Wrote on January 14, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
The only thing he’s missing is how Owen and Beru fit into the whole thing, since presumably they know the story as well. But that’s just a nit.
Andy said,
Wrote on January 22, 2007 @ 6:10 pm
He is missing the fact that Han rescued Chewie from a slave gang of the Empire’s. But maybe he was captured and Lando had the ship, then Han rescues him, and Chewie makes Lando give it up to Han.