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JediMasterKendo Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 1/12 7:14pm Subject: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	After watching Return of the Jedi for the gazillionth time and reading my old copy of the Original Trilogy collection paperback I'm curious about how Luke would have known after talking with Ben that Leia is his sister? How would Luke right away figure out that Leia is his twin sister?
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Arawn_Fenn Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 1/12 7:21pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Uh... I'm gonna go with the decided lack of other prominent female characters? -----signature----- "You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor." - Han Solo
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Badger_Legion Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 1/12 7:38pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Why would his sister have to be someone he already knew?
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AdamBertocci Title: Manager: Fan Films Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 1/12 7:38pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Woman's intuition. Rick McCallum loves you! -----signature----- "Run Leia Run", "The Chopped-Off Hands of Star Wars" and "The Fan Film Menace"... ... and now the award-winning "Brooklyn Force". Check 'em out. http://www.runleiarun.com
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Qui-Gon_Reborn Title: Qui-Gon's Personal SWC Modsaber Registered: Dec '08	Date Posted: 1/12 7:53pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Leia: Luke! What a coincidence! We have the same birthday! Luke: And we're the same age! Leia: And we're both short! Luke: And our names both start with the letter L! Leia: We must not be related! No, I'm kidding. I always wondered why, during the years between ANH and ESB that Luke and Leia never found all of those points suspicious. But, going back to this thread's original point, Luke's connection to the Force had probably led him to realize the kinship he shared with Leia. -----signature----- To be a true poet is to become God. - Dan Simmons Now bring me that horizon. - Capt. Jack Sparrow High Priestess in the Holy Order of the Circle-in-the-Sky Worshippers
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jedimasterbac Title: CT and Fan Design Manager Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 1/12 7:58pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	It was the Force. You can see on Luke's face in that scene that when Ben is talking, Luke isn't really paying attention to him. Instead, he seems to be looking off somewhere else. This is him searching the Force to discover the answer, which is precisely what he did moments later. -----signature----- Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One (my fan fic) http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30225011/p1/?3
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rsterling78 Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 1/12 9:11pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Arawn_Fenn posted: Uh... I'm gonna go with the decided lack of other prominent female characters? That was actually used as the explanation back in the 1980s in the Mad Magazine parody of ROTJ. Personally, I would love to have seen this scene: LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: The other he spoke of is your twin sister. LUKE: But I have no sister. BEN: Hmm. To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous. LUKE: Mon Mothma! Mon Mothma's my sister! BEN: No, you moisture-farming hick! It's Leia!
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Daft-Vader Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 1/13 6:38am Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Qui-Gon_Reborn posted: Leia: Luke! What a coincidence! We have the same birthday! Luke: And we're the same age! Leia: And we're both short! Luke: And our names both start with the letter L! Leia: We must not be related! I'm guessing that they would have used the 'same' birthday - Owen and Beru wouldn't have known, and Bail for security would have probably not made it too obvious. Technically, wasn't the story originally going to be that someone else (not Leia)was going to be Luke's Sister, but when the story was cut down to six episodes, they just made Leia Luke's Sister, hence the reason why Leia could walk right up to Vader, and get tortured by him, which, I would think, probably did involve the Force and not be discovered, yet Luke in a X-Wing could be found - 'The Force Is Strong in this one' Daft-Vader -----signature----- "Do you think he came out of the womb wearing a breather and black helmet?" Luke S. Official Coolian & JC Musketeer Vote Lando Calrissian for Galactic President/Gummy for President Propaganda Minister and LORD of the SWC Empire; Senator for Mustafar
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-Commander_Thigh- Registered: Aug '04	Date Posted: 1/13 8:23am Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	His insight serves him well. -----signature----- "Baron Of Not Catching On" of the JCC Shiny Council http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=shinycouncil "Do you need a sex tape released? Because I've got a weird one. It's night vision and you can see that his buddy is robbing me."
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DRush76 Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 1/13 9:10am Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Technically, wasn't the story originally going to be that someone else (not Leia)was going to be Luke's Sister, but when the story was cut down to six episodes, they just made Leia Luke's Sister, hence the reason why Leia could walk right up to Vader, and get tortured by him, which, I would think, probably did involve the Force and not be discovered, yet Luke in a X-Wing could be found - 'The Force Is Strong in this one' Luke was deliberately using the Force to help him destroy the Death Star. When was it confirmed that Leia was using the Force to resist the torturing?
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Daft-Vader Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 1/13 9:15am Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	DRush76 posted: Technically, wasn't the story originally going to be that someone else (not Leia)was going to be Luke's Sister, but when the story was cut down to six episodes, they just made Leia Luke's Sister, hence the reason why Leia could walk right up to Vader, and get tortured by him, which, I would think, probably did involve the Force and not be discovered, yet Luke in a X-Wing could be found - 'The Force Is Strong in this one' Luke was deliberately using the Force to help him destroy the Death Star. When was it confirmed that Leia was using the Force to resist the torturing? No, I was saying it was likely that Vader was using the force to intergoate Leia - the Empire really wanted to know where the rebel base is, and I am sure I heard a tape which had Vader use the Force to help pretend he was her father (as in Bail) -----signature----- "Do you think he came out of the womb wearing a breather and black helmet?" Luke S. Official Coolian & JC Musketeer Vote Lando Calrissian for Galactic President/Gummy for President Propaganda Minister and LORD of the SWC Empire; Senator for Mustafar
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drg4 Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 1/13 1:10pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Why go to the trouble of weaving a revelation organically into the narrative, when you can just resort to the ol' "It's the Force!" explanation?
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Arawn_Fenn Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 1/13 3:25pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	DRush76 posted: When was it confirmed that Leia was using the Force to resist the torturing? It wasn't. "Her resistance to the mind probe is considerable" is all we got. -----signature----- "You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor." - Han Solo
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 1/13 3:29pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Well, the Force doesn't have to mean a supernatural power, conveniently trotted out to explain some otherwise inexplicable plot point; it could be taken as merely symbolic of purely natural forces, such as insight and intuition. As a Jedi attuned to the flow of life, Luke may have benefited from his Force use in this instance. But he also might simply have put two and two together -- all the physical evidence of their kinship (cited comically by a poster, above), plus his instinctual, "gut-level" sense that he and Leia shared a special connection that transcended their natural attraction. -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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LawJedi Registered: Jan '09	Date Posted: 1/13 4:55pm Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	Maybe he recognized that the taste of her spit was strangely similar to his own... -----signature----- "Retcon is your friend in Star Wars." -Dave Filoni
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Daft-Vader Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 1/14 1:53am Subject: RE: How would Luke have known that Leia was his sister?
	LawJedi posted: Maybe he recognized that the taste of her spit was strangely similar to his own... Anyway, what I meant by the Force during the torture was that I was pretty sure Vader wouod have used the Force on Leia to get the location of the Base, so surely by him using the Force on Leia, he would have felt something... -----signature----- "Do you think he came out of the womb wearing a breather and black helmet?" Luke S. Official Coolian & JC Musketeer Vote Lando Calrissian for Galactic President/Gummy for President Propaganda Minister and LORD of the SWC Empire; Senator for Mustafar
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