Word: luke
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Characters in the "Star Wars" universe are not as simple as they seem, however. Anakin Skywalker, promising and generous child, falls so far into the Dark Side that he emerges as Darth Vader, the most evil of all. Yet, even he is redeemed at the very end--by love. Luke's quiet and unflinching faith in him helps him to remember that he has a son. This event, at the end of "Return of the Jedi," is surely one of the greatest moments of redemption ever filmed...
Emily is not the only person to lament the absence of our swaggering friend--"the scruffy-looking nerfherder," if you will. Where are the big three--Luke, Leia and Han Solo--now? Leia (Carrie Fisher) still acts, although not usually in leading roles. She writes, both novels and screenplays. (I guess that iron bikini in Return of the Jedi was a little much.) Luke (Mark Hamill) works on comic books. He can also currently be seen in a series of commercials for Big Bear, the supermarket chain. (He uses the Force to move his shopping bags out of the store...
...ride. Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan '02, a Crimson editor, is an English concentrator in Holworthy Hall. Salacious Crumb is the small cackling being who tries to rip out C-3PO's eye in Return of the Jedi. Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca. And the ice creature of Hoth who attacks Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is a Wampa. As for Boba Fett's third cousin twice removed, she recommends you ask Melissa...
...swashbuckling heroism of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo is favored by Lucasites. Trekkers prefer the intellectual and strategic cunning of a Captain Picard or a Spock...
...remember the first time I watched what is now known as "Episode IV"--squirming in disgust as the heroes are locked in the trash disposal with that ugly serpent thing, the nail-biting encounter between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, that adrenaline rush you get during the sequence where Luke successfully blows up the Death Star. And while I didn't think I'd be too excited about the release of "The Phantom Menace"--I figured I could see it sometime in August, when the shows are no longer sold out--it pleased me more than I will...