i like that: leias message being " a secrete code" maybe it wasn´t all yoda´s idea, but when living leia to bail organa they told him to teach leia that when being in a big big trouble call general ben kenobi who is on tatooine for help. then ben would know what to do, and coz the force is strong with the skywalkers r2 ended up with luke who brought it himself to ben and that´s why ben was so thoughtful when he realised this. he saw how the force was playing its cards, and it was really clear to him what to do. go to alderaan and meet bail organa.
but why go to bail organa and not yoda?
Hmm. I think that perhaps Yoda and Ben didn't think that the prophacy was true. How could they think the chosen one helped destroy all of the Jedi?
Yoda and Ben knew Luke was Anakins son. But I think Ben hid on Tatooine, waiting for Luke to make the first move.
In other words, once Luke showed up with R2, Ben knew it was destiny, and that Luke had the power to save them all.
If Anakin was too old to be trained in the ways of the force, why wasn't Luke deemed to be too old?
I know that Uncle Owen was not too keen on Luke following his father, but Obi-Wan did not have to take Luke to Owen, he could have just taken him somewhere to train, so Why didn't Obi-Wan start training him from an early age?
Fear of the Dark side...Anakin, as we see, is slowly being drawn into the Dark side would Luke and Leia be more like their father or their mother. What would it take to trigger either one of them to follow their father? Or would the goodness of their mother prevail?
As for the coded message from Leia to Luke
This is our most desperate hour.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
R2 seeks Luke, finds him, gives him a glimpse of the message, sets his path on finding Obiwan, Obiwan begins the trails, Luke shows promise...the rest is history.
It's an intersting concept
No point reading too much into all that. Just take it as we see it. Leia was sent by Bail to retrieve Obi-Wan but was intercepted on the way and recorded an emergency message for him. It could not, therefore, have been a code and she had no idea about Luke or any such thing. Obi-Wan just improvised on the spot.
As it is, Luke would still not have gone with Obi-Wan if the Empire hadn't killed his family.
Why not? Well, to be honest, Luke was almost totally irrelevant in Return of the Jedi, wasn't he? He did nothiong to help win the war whatsoever; the Rebels won on their own steam. Which I still think is a huge flaw; a direct link SOULD have been made between Luke and victory, as it is even if he had failed the Death Star would have been destroyed with all on it.
Until Episode III we have no idea why they didn't start to train Luke at once (and wait for the uprising and present him as fully trained) but I suspect it made sense at the time. Maybe the Emperor might have been able to predict the coming of a new Jedi if they had started to train him at once- after all, the Emperor felt something in the Force once Luke started his training. I am not saying that you can just detect a Force User like that, as Yoda proves, but he CAN navigate the future and the return of a Jedi could well be something he would pick up if one was being trained.
It is possible that Obi-Wan let Owen and Beru bring up Luke, rather than doing it himself, precisely to keep Luke in a mundane environment where his powers would remain limited.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Until Episode III we have no idea why they didn't start to train Luke at once (and wait for the uprising and present him as fully trained) but I suspect it made sense at the time.