Look, I apologize for all the Luke-Leia-Vader stuff; it was pretty late on my end and it was something that bugged me for over 15 years and I just started venting.
The bottom line point (if nobody's figured this out, which they have) is that Lucas has been pulling monkeys out his arse since the first movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah its STAR WARS - there is no possible way to explain it other than it happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, or so I heard.
There is not much you can do to fix some of the more arse monkey things other than try to twist your mind around them and justify them to the point of absurdity (you know, like Republicans with W. and Democrats with Clinton. BTW, That is THE BEGINNING AND END of political mentions - notice I insult/compliment both groups. The end).
I guess just as long as the Hoth and Endor battles are tremendous I'll be okay, stupid and sporadically useless Force powers and all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThHuHoo5L0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSIlAlSFMm0&feature=related
"Quick man! Grab tenaciously to my buttocks!"
"BOTH of them?!?!"