True, but she was focused on pissing off Han, and Luke was conveniently close. Luckily, closer than Chewie or 3PO.
"it is obvious that Lucas didn't originally intend Jedi to only communicate with other Jedi in this manner."
Ben sensed the cries of the people of Alderaan. Was that a planet full of Jedi psychics? What Luke did is not much different from the Jedi mind trick - putting your thoughts into someone else's head.
"Look at how ”no, there is another” was handled. He wrote and filmed that scene before he had any idea at all who the other actually was."
Correct.
"Great example you used with LOTR. Those stories were very well thought out and they are very thorough. No pretzel logic needed."
Although a few key scenes in The Hobbit had to be rewritten.
"Anybody see that part on the ROTS DVD where Rick McCullum admits that they had to go back and refilm the scene with Obi-Wan picking up Anakin's lightsabre because "we kind of forgot he gave it to Luke in the next film."
LOL....yeah. I almost wish they had forgotten to do that. It would have been the funniest thing in the world.
"Lucas said that whoever he was with said to him, "George that is the first ship you see in the Original SW"
That person should have said it was a not-very-close fascimile of the first ship, but I digress...