Friendly Darth?

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@att.net>
Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:31:23 -0500

> On Tue, 14 May 2002 21:02:27 -0700, Michael Llaneza

> to his homeworld etc.

Well, there was Pricess Leia's homeworld...

> kevinbalentine wrote:

Vader may have had a hand in it somewhere behind the scenes, but he didn't
actually do it. That was Gran Moff Tarkin (God, I remembered this? help!).

On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:41:33 -0500, "kevinbalentine"
> <kevinbalentine@mail.ev1.net> wrote:

> Well, there was Pricess Leia's homeworld ...

That wasn't Vader. That was Grand Moff Tarkin/Peter Cushing.

Vader did nothing to stop it. Now this could have been a sort of "Coventry"
style "better not save the innocents as it would blow my cover" kind of a
deal. I don't think George is capable of that kind of characterization,
though. I think it's pretty clear that Vader is bad, until the 3rd... I mean
6th... movie, when he redeems himself (by killing someone).

> At 09:47 15/05/02 -0500, Allan wrote:

One of the local Star Wars fiends recently told me that the first cut of

"Return Of The Jedi" had Luke failing and joining the Emperor (I suppose he
ran Dad through with his light sabre) but Lando does manage to blow up the
Death Star but doesn't get to escape in time. Hence the scene that did make it
into the film where Han gets all misty eyed about his ship before scooting off
to Endor. Apparently Lucas changed his mind after viewing the first cut, me I
must admit I like the idea of Luke turning bad and then going up with the ship
as I found this film to be a poor cousin to "The Empire Strikes Back".

Cheers