What's all this crap aboot "Owen and Beru"? It's "BERU AND HER HANGER-ON OWEN", obviously. Beru first stole our hearts and souls in Ep4, back when it didn't have a number. She was way better than Owen, the useless layabout she was married to, and as such was quite obviously worthy of Obi-Wan Kenobi, with whom she was blatantly having an affair. There was a tangible chemistry between the two, and they clearly had a History. (Well, they had more of a connection than the viceroy returning with another droid army...) Doubtless this History was rekindled by her dull and unsatisfying marriage to the dull and unsatisfying Owen.
Now Beru is to be in Ep2. However, let us ignore this, as they have cast a kid. And They will almost certainly neglect the subtle undertones of her character and her romance wik Obi. This is what happens when you allow George Lucas to interpret the characterisations in his own film. He will get it wrong.
Let us focus on the painful memory of Aunt Beru's death.
Why did she have to leave us? Owen died too, but he was a drunken whoremonger with no friends and who never washed. Luke escaped from death's clutches, despite being rubbish. This demonstrates the cruel nature of the universe. It's enough to make you write poetry.
When Aunt Beru was reduced to a charred skeleton by Imperial Stormtroopers, a little part of the good in all of us died. The woman who had toiled in sand, etching a living from the desert, was gone. Her labours had been for nothing, her traumas all in vain. If only she had left that waster Owen for her true love Ben Kenobi, all would have been well. If only she had given Luke away to someone else. If only...
Aunt Beru - We are all truly lost.
I want to escape the pain and delude myself
This is sick, take me back to the main page
Here are Beru links:
The "Official" Beru Site. Not there yet.
Aunt Beru's Place
