the 2nd to last hope

[ron...@houxt.uucp]

I have a question about Luke. What exactly did he do to warrant being
called the 2nd to last hope? He didn't kill Vader, the Emperor did that.
He didn't kill the Emperor, Vader did that. He didn't destroy the Death
Star, Lando did that. He did convert Vader back to the good side, but so
what? Vader would have died in the Death Star explosion anyway. He did
get both the Emperor and Vader on the Death Star, but he didn't do that
intentionally. He thought that Vader would not surrender him to the
Emperor.

houxt!ronnie1

[Larry Wall]

And why does Luke have to have accomplished something in order to qualify
as a "hope"? To quote the good Book: "Hope that is seen is not hope."
The same applies to the 1st to last hope, which I think is certainly Leia.
The hopehood of Leia points out the relationship of Luke and Leia, which
I deem to be much more important to the plot than deciding which of Luke
or Leia gets more of the action.

And since when does the salvation of DV count for nothing? Remember that
in the SW universe there is an afterlife, however holographic it may be.
There are many in the crowd who would dispute the notion that the sum of
a man's life is limited to this plane in our universe. How much less can
we guess about the nature of salvation in a universe for which we have
much less evidence? Yours contortedly,

Larry Wall
lw...@sdcrdcf.UUCP