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   “The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my
               friend, are all that's left of their religion.”

Some recent musings on Star Wars (Losin' It [1] (via Jason Kottke [2]) and
Wil Wheaton's Geek In Review: Han Shoots First [3] (via … well, Wil Wheaton
himself [4]) has got me thinking thoughts of Star Wars myself and one of my
central questions of Star Wars: Why do we believe Darth Vader when he tells
Luke he's his father?

So we have this movie (The Empire Strikes Back) [5] where the Bad Guys are
telling the truth (apparently) and the Good Guys have lied (Obi-Wan, I'm
looking at you!). What exactly is George Lucas trying to say here? (and here
I was, ready to write this whole diatribe, when I found that I had already
written it a few years ago [6]—heh)

[1] http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1558880_1_0_,00.html
[2] http://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/11/12247.html
[3] http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/19141/
[4] http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/11/geek_in_review__2.html
[5] http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080684
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/03/01.1

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