Hi everyone,
If there's one thing to be said about taking the first tentative steps and actually starting blogging is that it makes you think about SW more, or at least it certainly has me.

Take this morning for instance; I was lying in bed at about 5.30 waiting for the alarm to go off to tell me to get up for work, when I had a bit of a revelation.
Why? You may ask.
I know, I really should have gotten up and made a cup of coffee instead of just lying there.
Oh, the revelation.
Well, it struck me that Yoda's assessment of Luke, in that he was too reckless was absolutely correct.
Now I know that Yoda was referring to Luke dashing off to Bespin to rescue his friends from Vader's trap, and we all know how that turned out. No I'm thinking of the second attempt, the one to rescue Han from Jabba, who BTW I can't wait to see more of in the Clone Wars, he looks so cool in the trailer.
It seems that Luke didn't learn his lesson.
I mean, talk about putting all your eggs in one basket; you've got Han blind, Chewie in a cell, Leia chained to Jabba, Luke captured and Lando in the worst disguise in the Galaxy. The whole plan relied entirely on R2 being able to return Luke's lightsabre and yes I know everyone's favourite little astromech came through in the end, but all it would have taken would be one sweep of one of those massive arms by Jabba and the whole thing would have come crashing down. After all Jabba wasn't the calmest of beings, was he?

Or at least that is how it appeared to me at 5.30 this morning.

And another thing whist I'm on. Why did Luke have to face Vader in order to become a Jedi Knight? Surely this wasn't the norm, I mean all the other Jedi Knights didn't have to face either a Sith Lord or their father in order to attain Knighthood did they?

Perhaps this is some dark secret that I've stumbled upon; perhaps this is why Jedi were taken from their families at such a young age. It's so that in the future the Council can reveal their parents' identity and location and then say, "Off you go then, you must face your father".
This would seem a little unfair, what with the Padawans having received years of lightsabre training but I suppose if the Padawans didn't come back well then they weren't really up to it in the first place.

MTFBWY DD