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limyaael's twins rant. It's about Star Wars, so non-SW fans may want to skim this post.
I was thinking that a lot of things Obi-Wan did seemed kind of stupid. So let's say you wanted to hide the twins from Daddy Vader and the Emperor, out of fear that a) they will be killed for being Force-sensitive or b) (more likely) they will be raised by Vader and the Emperor to be Sith. But Obi-Wan could have done two things here: 1) kept the twins together and 2) not had them (especially Luke) use the name Skywalker. Vader thought he had a single son, not a set of fraternal twins, so if he ever got the idea that the baby survived, he wouldn't check the twins. Also, the last name Skywalker was a dead giveaway on a boy baby that age. For that matter, giving him to Anakin's stepbrother to raise? (Disclaimer: Only seen Ep III once, so fuzzy on that scene)
One of the EU novels point out that Obi-Wan might have been hoping to somehow use Luke to pull Anakin back from the Dark Side, and that's a theory that (I think) has even more weight with the prequels. after all, if the Rebellion hadn't come knocking, Luke was planning on applying for the Imperial Navy. This would get him noticed, and the report could make it back to Vader. If Obi-Wan started training Luke once he was an adult so that by the time he was high enough in the ranks to be noticed by Vader or the Emperor, he was capable of resisting the Dark Side, he would be nearly as useful as Padme as 'the only person who has a shot in hell of getting Anakin back'. Must have been a painful decision for Obi-Wan -- Anakin seemed to be one of two people he considered family, and resigning himself to the fact that He Could Not Bring Him Back But Someone Else Could was kind of harsh.
Also makes me wonder what was going through Vader's helmet when Intel told him the name of the pilot who shot down the Death Star. The part of him that loved Padme and was going to be a daddy seems like it was the only thing that bound him to who Anakin was (again, sorry, Obi-Wan -- you were closer to him than he was to you).
I am not allowed to drabble this. I am going to repeat this.
limyaael's twins rant. It's about Star Wars, so non-SW fans may want to skim this post.I was thinking that a lot of things Obi-Wan did seemed kind of stupid. So let's say you wanted to hide the twins from Daddy Vader and the Emperor, out of fear that a) they will be killed for being Force-sensitive or b) (more likely) they will be raised by Vader and the Emperor to be Sith. But Obi-Wan could have done two things here: 1) kept the twins together and 2) not had them (especially Luke) use the name Skywalker. Vader thought he had a single son, not a set of fraternal twins, so if he ever got the idea that the baby survived, he wouldn't check the twins. Also, the last name Skywalker was a dead giveaway on a boy baby that age. For that matter, giving him to Anakin's stepbrother to raise? (Disclaimer: Only seen Ep III once, so fuzzy on that scene)
One of the EU novels point out that Obi-Wan might have been hoping to somehow use Luke to pull Anakin back from the Dark Side, and that's a theory that (I think) has even more weight with the prequels. after all, if the Rebellion hadn't come knocking, Luke was planning on applying for the Imperial Navy. This would get him noticed, and the report could make it back to Vader. If Obi-Wan started training Luke once he was an adult so that by the time he was high enough in the ranks to be noticed by Vader or the Emperor, he was capable of resisting the Dark Side, he would be nearly as useful as Padme as 'the only person who has a shot in hell of getting Anakin back'. Must have been a painful decision for Obi-Wan -- Anakin seemed to be one of two people he considered family, and resigning himself to the fact that He Could Not Bring Him Back But Someone Else Could was kind of harsh.
Also makes me wonder what was going through Vader's helmet when Intel told him the name of the pilot who shot down the Death Star. The part of him that loved Padme and was going to be a daddy seems like it was the only thing that bound him to who Anakin was (again, sorry, Obi-Wan -- you were closer to him than he was to you).
I am not allowed to drabble this. I am going to repeat this.
