Star Wars: Was the “other Skywalker” Yoda spoke of really Leia?

[Hriston]

Obi-Wan clearly thought so, but was he right?

Leia’s strength in the Force never really plays the part in the story that would be suggested by all that foreshadowing.

Could Yoda have been talking about Ben Solo, Obi-Wan having guessed partly right in that it was Leia’s legacy?

Was he talking about Anakin, sharing Luke’s hope that there was still some good in his father?

Was he talking about Rey?

I’ve been thinking about loose threads left by Episodes I - VI, and this seems like a big one.

With all the gravity given Yoda’s revelation in Episodes V and VI, it seems like the sequel trilogy should have been mostly concerned with Leia and/or her legacy. Was it?

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Umbran]

Obi-Wan clearly thought so, but was he right?

Remember the actual quote:

Obi-Wan: "That boy is our last hope."
Yoda: "No...there is another..."

There are very few words there, so you can probably interpret them to mean... anything you want.

 

[MarkB]

The point was that Luke wasn't their last hope - there was someone else who could take his place if he failed.

But he didn't fail, so Leia didn't need to take his place, and could follow her own destiny instead.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

It wasn't Leia when it was said in 1980; it became that later.

So who knows? The words aren't explicit about a Skywalker, just another hope.

Now, Yoda when he dies in RotJ is the one who says "There is ... another ... Sky ... walk ... er. croak"

 

[Morrus]

Yes, it was Leia. As Vader says... "Sister! So you have a twin sister! .... If you will not turn to the dark side, perhaps she will!"

 

[Retreater]

Remember the actual quote:

Obi-Wan: "That boy is our last hope."
Yoda: "No...there is another..."

There are very few words there, so you can probably interpret them to mean... anything you want.

But the quote from "Return of the Jedi" on Yoda's deathbed was:
Yoda: "Pass on what you have learned. There is another … Sky … walk … er."

Then the immediate next scene is Obi-Wan telling Luke about his twin sister, Leia. Yoda's dialogue was to set up Leia as Luke's sister, "the other Skywalker."

So, yes, it's pretty clear to me that "the other Skywalker" is Leia.

 

[Umbran]

But the quote from "Return of the Jedi" on Yoda's deathbed was:
Yoda: "Pass on what you have learned. There is another … Sky … walk … er."

Shows how goo memory can be. Of course, you are correct.

And in that context, it isn't "There will be another." Definitely an is. Talking about the present, not the future, so he could not have been referring to people not yet born.

 

[MarkB]

I have always been curious as to why, in both Legends and new canon, they chose not to develop Leia's connection with the Force to any great degree, instead choosing to make her primarily a stateswoman.

 

[Kaodi]

Leia took after Padme, Luke took after Anakin, particularly later in life. The Galaxy needed a stateswoman, and even with her doing the job things could not really be held together.