Re: questionable conception

Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Mike
> Schilling declared:
>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>>
>>> Meh.  There was such a simple explanation, and Lucas didn't
>>> bother to go for it.  She was a SLAVE.  Slaves get raped a
>>> lot. How is a slave to know which of a dozen trans****t
>>> workers, slave-market staff, and miscellaneous passersby
>>> fathered her baby?
>> 
>> Lucas was trying to make A****in's conception mysterious and 
>> intriguing, not commonplace and distasteful. 
>> 
> 
> The even simpler solution would've been to stick to what Obi-Wan
> told Luke in the original trilogy -- that he met A****in when he
> was already the best star pilot in the galaxy.

Not best *star* pilot. Just best pilot. What happened in TPM was 
not in conflict what what Obi-Wan's ghost told Luke in TESB.

> If they met as
> adults, 

Which was never said by Kenobi.

> there's no need to ever explain who A****in's parents
> were. It would also explain Yoda's trepidation about training
> Luke when he's already an adult, instead of the Jedi insisting
> that a nine year old is too old to begin training.
> 
Consistency, even implied, isn't exactly Lucas' strong point.

But then, one or two exceptions aside, neither is making movies 
that don't suck.

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Terry Austin

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