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Re: next year
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:45:39 GMT
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"Adrick Tolliver" <tolliver@tstar.net> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.starwars, Jeromy Irvine writes:
> > It's been quite a while since I read the book, but I
> > seem to remember Vader's arm being chopped off
> > by Luke for one. That doesn't fit with ESB or ROTJ
> > very well.
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> Ok, let me clear this one up for you. In one of Tim
> Zahn's books, Luke finds out(from Mara Jade) that
> Vader's hand was cut off by Palpatine in punishment
> for his failure at the Death Star. That would have been
> before SOTME. In SOTME Vader's arm is cut off by
> Luke at the elbow. Luke was "suprised at how little
> he(Vader)bled. Why did he bleed so little? Becease
> his hand was fake! The one Luke cuts of in ROTJ is
> a replacement for the one Vader lost in SOTME, which
> was a replacement for his real hand, which was cut of
> by the Emperor. Got that?
OK. That makes sense. I'd forgotten about the punishment thing from the
Zahn book. I suppose it could be made to fit in.
> > That and the other interactions between Vader and
> > Luke in the book wouldn't fit very well with the
> > father-son connection revealed in ESB.
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> Why not?
No definitive reason, I guess. In my subjective opinion, it doesn't seem
to fit. I could just be reading more into it than is there.
> Oh, and here's
> something that makes SOTME fit well with TPM: in SOTME Vader turns • R2-D2 and
> C-3PO off. When the 'droids are turned on, threepio says that they • tried to
> resist, but Vader knew all the access codes he needed to shut them • down.
> Now we know how he knew.
>
> Adrick
Yep, that makes sense. On the other hand (and this is really an TPM vs.
ANH, ESB & ROTJ question more than it is a SOTME one): If Vader knew and
recognized the droids, why didn't he just destroy them when he had the
chance? It seems to me that it would've been safer that way. He
definitely would have been able to do it during ESB at some point. Also,
the droids don't seem to recognize him as Anakin Skywalker, so they
apparently fall out of touch at some point before he becomes Darth
Vader. I guess we have to wait for Episodes 2 & 3 before we can draw any
final conclusions on that one.
--
later... Jer
irvinej@accuvera.com
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| In lugnet.starwars, Jeromy Irvine writes: <SNIP> (...) R2D2 and C3PO are both very common style droids... C3PO may have been built by Anakin, but once he gets his coverings on he looks like any other protocol droid. R2 is just an astromech unit. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Ok, let me clear this one up for you. In one of Tim Zahn's books, Luke finds out(from Mara Jade) that Vader's hand was cut off by Palpatine in punishment for his failure at the Death Star. That would have been before SOTME. In SOTME Vader's (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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