From: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: SW-IV & -V
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.790
Posted: Mon Dec 20 09:55:37 1982
Received: Mon Dec 20 10:27:54 1982

   Well, you people convinced me to go back and see episodes IV and V again.
Some interesting things have been missed or mis-stated.
	1) Darth Vader kills lots of people.  He starts by picking up the
	   commander of Leia's ship (the opening scenes) by the neck and
	   shaking him until he is dead.  Not particularly nice.  He also
	   kills lots of people by using the Force to strangle them.
	2) OB-1 is definately called OB-1.  It seems that the future has
	   slurred the 1 to sound more like Wan, but the more cultured
	   types (such as old Ben himself) speak clearly enough.
	3) Nobody mentionned that Luke's uncle's name was Owen (O-1).  Ben
	   also says this fairly clearly at least twice.
	4) When Ben says Vader murdered Luke's father, I got the feeling he
	   was speaking in a metaphysical sense.  Vader (the dark side) won
	   out over Skywalker (the better side).  Thus Vader "murdered" Luke's
	   father.
	5) There is some resemblence between the emperor and Ben but the
	   credits list them as different actors.
	6) Leia is a little slut who obviously wants Luke, Han, and Chewie.
	7) Luke's light saber is very likely gone, although he could have used
	   the Force to call it back to him.
   Here is some wild speculation.  I am not at all convinced that Luke will be
an all around good-guy for the next movie.  Although it goes against shlock
American film-making practices, Luke could very well become a baddie.  I 
wouldn't be surprised to see Vader/Skywalker and Luke take on the Emperor
and then take over the Galaxy.  Perhaps Vader might even die in the 
encounter.  But the "other" will win out in the end.  
   One more thought before I go.  Did anyone else notice that none of
the good guys ever got hit by the laser blasts.  At least not seriously.
However, R2D2 stood in the line of fire more often without suffering
any real damages.  It (he?) only got caught a couple of time and usually
it was "fortuitous happenstance" since it advanced R2D2 toward his current
goals.  R2D2 also circumvented every security system set up and talked
freely with all other computers.  If all R2 units had that capability the
Galaxy would be controlled by 'droids, or unscrupulous 'droid owners.
	--- Stephen Perelgut ---