Author: Dan (---.aol.com)
Date: 05-16-2002 22:28
I really don't understand what purpose the column serves, but as long as you brought up the topic of leadership in Star Wars...
There are a few leaders you forgot that really did most of the work in the Star Wars movie series.
The first is R2D2. Yes, Artoo. People gloss over the fact that he was really the one in charge because of anti-droid racism and not being able to understand the language he speaks.
Who started off the whole adventure by bravely convincing the C3P0 buffoon to make a break for it in the escape pod? Who successfully avoiding capture by the Storm Troopers and found the Jawa so the two could be brought to the attention of a simple farmer named Luke? Who went completely against his programming to ignore Luke's pleas to not become involved? Who braved the Sand People to show the hologram of the Princess to Obi Wan and comvince him to pretend to be in charge? Who let his second hand man give the commands to Luke and Han in rescuing the Princess, while leading C3P0 in the effort to take control of the death star's computer system long enough to release the heroes? Who followed Luke to supervise the destruction of the death star? And then, in the most clever strategy yet, kept displaying holograms of the dead Obi Wan to Luke to convince him to go meet Yoda?
It was all Artoo, the master droid controlling everything from his unassuming position as a supposed piece of property. Didn't catch that? Pay more attention next time.
Of course the other secret leadership role of Star Wars belong to those enigmatic parasites, the midichlorians, who infest their hosts and convince them they have supernatural powers. They're insidious, yet very charismatic. Most of the characters, even the minor ones, seem to have been influenced to some amount by these smooth-talkers (or would that be "smooth-hallucination senders").
Rumor has it that someone with the odd name of George Lucas had some major leadership postiion, but I haven't been able to track the stories down to their source. He could just be a myth created by the Jedi Council to get their propoganda films on the movie screens of a small insignificant planet where the residents are so pathetic and backward that they'd wait in line for months just to watch the films.
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