No major cliffhangers George...please!!!

RC, what you just said confirms my statement really. Vader is out there doing the dirty work, while the people in power are comfortably in their ivory tower. Tarkin was gouvernor, but obviously also a military commander. Possibly orginally a general in the republic. Why else would Palpy assign a political gouvernor as commander of the largest battle station ever contructed?
From ANH it is clear Tarkin supercedes Vader. Vader does not get to command a large military power until ESB.

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Going back a few posts to the part about Boba Fett, well what if it is he who teams up with Vader to terminate the jedi? After all, he witnesses his 'father's' demise at the hand's of Mace Windu in Episode II, and i'd like to lay a hefty wager that it is he who kills Mace in III, i know i may be reaching here because he'll only be about fifteen years old in III, but i have a strong feeling about this.

Well it does seem fairly certain that Vader and Boba Fett develop some type of relationship..but I think details are too sketchy to make a wager yet 😂

I think that Vader will kill Mace Windu. I think Mace will be the last Jedi, well, so Palpy and Vader think. Even though I think they know that Obi-Wan lives, they just assume he is too distrought to do anything about the Empire becoming what it became. I could see Vader standing over Windu and saying "With you dies the Jedi order. The Sith rule the galaxy now!"

Then plunges his lightsaber in Mace's chest to the hilt. Cool. 😮‍💨

Perhaps, I always wondered why Darth felt Obi-Wan`s presence on Death Star in ANH, but it seems it doesen`t work the other way around.

I think Ben did sense Vader, he just didn't say anything to Luke and Han. Too much explaining to do. After he deactivated the tractor, you could tell by the look on his face he sensed Vader, and at one point pulled out his lightsaber hilt.

Yeah I guess you are right, only guessing though.🙂

This sensing of each other's presence through the force must only work in close proximity, otherwise Vader would have sensed Obi-Wan when he was in orbit around Tatooine in ANH.

Goes without saying!

Ah! One of my speciality's: Stating the obvious! 🙂

Gundy, if you think about it, 5 minutes is actually quite a lot of dialogue when split into lots of different lines. I think Vader will have quite a good few lines to say when he wakes up in his suit.

Well, gosh golly gee whiz, I hope so. (Sniff)🙁

Thanks, DD, you made me feel better. 🙂

It's true. I don't think Vader has much more than five minutes of lines in any of the OT movies.

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