Originally posted by: kmcherry

I'm with you up till the end. 1) I think the scene of Obi-Wan passing off Luke to Owen Lars is one of the better moments of the sequel. 2) I think some explanation would have to be given about Yoda in the PT. Otherwise, it should come as a surprise not just to us but to Obi-Wan that Yoda is alive.

Otherwise, a hearty thumbs-up for this.

As for the passing off of Luke. It wasn't even that well done, and I still agree with you that it was one of the better parts of the entire PT. He rides up to their home. Breu runs up to him and he hands her the baby, no explaination, no thank you, no oh my goodness what a horrible thing that has happened. It doen't even seem like they are waiting for the kid, they are just out in their yard watching the suns set when this guy they never met before and for some reason will come to dislike (he is just a crazy old man) rides up on a retarded looking animal and hand her a baby. And now without saying anything to the man giving her the baby, she goes back to her husband and judging by the scene I would imagine if you could hear what they were saying it would go something like this,
"What's that dear?"
"Oh, just a baby some crazy guy just gave to me"
"Huh, that was nice of him. Beautiful sunset eh?

Own doesn't even leave the sunset to go meet the guy. If you really think about, the scene absolutely sucks from a story telling standpoint. From a touching moment, good way to end the trilogy standpoint it works, but could have been better. Also I am not sure if Obi-Wan even really needed to know Yoda was still alive, he could have found out after he died and this is why his ghost told Luke to go there. You might say that he would not have let himself die at Vader's hand had he been the only chance for Luke to learn the ways of the Jedi, but at that time Lucas didn't know Yoda either nor did any of the people in the audience and it still worked. Obi-Wan might have intended to continue instruction via force ghost. Maybe Obi-Wan could have been wondering all these year who of the Jedi remained, but never knew. Or perhaps Yoda's survival was not a surprise to Obi-Wan, and that he had been in communication with him some how. A lot can happen in 20 years. Could have been a network of surviving Jedi for a while as they slowly got picked off, and at one point one of them had met up with Obi-Wan to let him know the current status of things and he had found out about the survival of Yoda this way. Surprises in movies are a good thing. Even little one. The PT was a pretty surpriseless mess. Almost nudging us and winking at us all the way saying, "you already know whats going to happen next."