The "cool" guy

Yes, but he IS a crybaby

This could go on forever.

Not if he answers the question. I don't have a clue what he's getting at anyway. Does anyone else?

No, and I think you're right KJ. To Luke it was like loosing his parents.

you say that, but how do you think they felt when he was always obsessed with his parents, in fact why do you think they told him about his father, could they have just not pretended that they were his parents.

Hmmm, no, they were honest people, they couldn't have done that.

**OK, I assume thgey are honest people but that may be diproven in AOTC

I think they just told him so they could control his temper, they could always say that his father didn't do this or that so Luke wouldn't do it also

I think that's it. In fact, they may have done so in agreeance with OB1.

I don't think that:
"The thought you would follow old Obi-Wan on some damn crusade like your father did"
"oh no, my father didn't fought in the Clone Wars, he was a pilot on a spiceschip"
"That is what they told you"
I'm not sure about the last sentence

Yes, but we know how OB1 likes to view things from "a certain point of view"

i still don't understand why they told Luke that they weren't his parents, it makes no sense, I'd of thought that Luke would've been too young to remember being given to the Lars so why confuse his mind by telling him that they weren't his parents, if anything was going to make him more inquisitive and rebelious it was surely that.

There are a whole host of reasons, all based around adoption and stuff.

what reasons, i assume leia wasn't told.

I'm not saying that OB1 and Owen got along. They might have made some kind of agreement.

On the other hand, maybe it didn't work out that well. I just remembered OB1 not liking Owen version of Anakin's past. Must be a mistake then. We'll see.

I'm hoping that only Padme, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Owen and Beru and Bail Organa know about the kids.

THat seems about right, yes. Except that maybe OB1 does not know about Leia.

I still think he knows. It was just his arrogance that made him think Leia couldn't become a Jedi.

why should Bail Organa, Owen and Beru know about the twins, would that put the twins life in danger? Obviously Padme and Yoda know and probably ob1 but surely the mpre people who know the greater the risk.

It seemed pretty obvious to me that Obi-Wan was right to favour Luke and discount Leia. Yoda was acting as if time was no option; Obi-Wan knew better. Leia would never be ready in time before all hope was utterly destroyed.

Why would it take longer to train Leia? She was active in the rebellion long before Luke came around.