I always thought that was Lucas lifting Christ's resurection. Christ became stronger after death. He gave up on his frail flesh and bones body and became a spirit, sitting at the right hand of God, becoming master and saviour of the world, and so forth.
But Ob1 does nothing after death. He does everything he could have done alive, that being, chat with friends. The scene where OB1 tells Luke to use the force instead of relying on the X-wing target system was crucial, but Luke send force messages to Leia while he was alive, I mean, why did ob1 die? What was important about it? IT seems like a lot of dramatic dialogue "i'll be stronger in death"
Why did OB1 let himself die?
Why did he lie to Luke?
Episode IV portrayed him as a kind wise old man, but later on we would find out he was a liar and that his death was pointless.
But Lucas never really addressed his death or the lie. He's so afriad of making a good guy slightly bad that he writes around the characters down fall or ingores it altogether by not drawing attention to it (eg. Luke was not mad at Ob1, therefore he did not lie-even though in ESB Luke seemed miffed, he some how got over it in ROTJ). Same can be said about Anakin. HE could not make him evil with out a reason, every thing had to be justified. Joining the dark side to save his wife? ha!
This post has been edited by Jordan: 15 June 2005 - 05:37 PM