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Luke Wasn't Alone: a "Multiple Jedi" Theory (Patreon)

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2015-11-05 23:18:53
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Luke Wasn't Alone: a "Multiple Jedi" Theory

ldquo;When gone I am, the last of the Jedi will you be.”Yoda's deathbed lines are appropriately haunting in Return of the Jedi, but after careful consideration, I’m convinced he was lying through his teeth.

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John Daly

I'd add that there's a fair amount of wiggle room in Yoda's "No, there is another." line in ESB. Sure, the most obvious interpretation is that he's talking about Leia, but let's assume you're right in thinking that Luke was groomed for Vader-confronting because he was the most likely to get through to the better bits of Anakin still buried in the armor. Hypothesis: Vader's enough of a narcissist that the son who reminds him of an innocent younger version of himself stood a much better chance of winning him over than would the smartass daughter (1) who physically resembles the wife who turned on him, (2) who challenged him in the Senate until the Senate no longer existed, and (3) whom he'd actually already brutally interrogated all the way back in ANH. In that case, Leia's mostly irrelevant to Yoda's schemes, no matter how naturally Force-sensitive she might be, and he may instead be referring to someone capable of taking a more traditional approach - or, heck, Ahsoka Tano.

dresdencodak

That's a good point about Leia. I know her being Luke's sister was a last-minute change, but even so, it doesn't make sense, given the circumstances, to train and send her against Vader.

John Daly

The more I think about it, the more true it seems. Luke was an orphan who grew up alienated from his uncle and curious about/admiring of his missing dad - before ESB, anyway. In contrast, Leia grew up with a father figure who seems to be one of the truly good guys of the SW canon, and who got blown up - along with her entire homeworld - with Vader's obvious participation. Yoda may not have known in advance how ANH was going to play out, but by the time ESB came along it had to be pretty clear that Leia wasn't going to be a particularly effective (or willing) agent of Vader's redemption, particularly if he'd also murdered Luke by the time it was her turn to step up to the plate. I don't know what Lucas's original plan was, but given the story as we've seen it I think your hidden Jedi hypothesis makes a lot of sense.

dresdencodak

Originally Luke was going to have a sister, it was just going to be a new character, who was presumably also being trained as a Jedi. This obviously would suggest there were other people out there to train Sister Skywalker besides Yoda.