In Foster’s novelization of the original Star Wars (no, I will not refer to it as “Episode IV” or anything else), there’s a line spoken by Obi-Wan to Darth Vader during their confrontation in the Death Star. It was something along the lines of “You’re like a spoon, Darth … you’re aware of the form of what you hold, but know nothing of its substance.”
Help me out here, please. What is the exact quote?
“You sense only a part of the force, Darth,” Kenobi murmured with the assurance of one to whom death is merely another sensation, like sleeping or making love or touching a candle. “As always, you perceive its reality as little as a utensil perceives the taste of food.”
Thank you! 
De nada; say the word, I’ll quote how Chewbacca gets a medal at the ceremony. 
As I recall he gets his later because “few space princesses are that tall.”
Same award ceremony as everyone else. “She placed something heavy and golden around Solo’s neck, then Chewbacca’s – having to strain to do so – and finally around Luke’s. Then she made a signal tro the crowd, and the rigid discipline dissolved as every man, woman, and mechanical present was permitted to give full vent to their feelings.”
I’m fairly sure that line is from the Marvel Comics adaptation, written by Roy Thomas (I believe).
Who else is freaked out by the notion of Obi-Wan Kenobi “making love”?
Or “touching a candle”? Okay, maybe Kenobi might have made love at some point, despite his devotion to the Jedi order. But touching a candle? You want me to believe that Obi-Wan Kenobi was some kind of…of…candle toucher?! No way, Foster! That goes too far!
If it helps, note that Kenobi hadn’t yet died back when that comparison was made; it’s just something he’s never actually experienced, and has do-or-do-not equanimity about. “If my blade finds its mark, you will cease to exist. But if you cut me down, I will only become more powerful.” At that point, he’d neither died nor, possibly, touched a candle.
Isn’t the notion of celibate Jedi new with the prequels?
I’m not bothered at all. Here Lucas is almost as bad as George RR Martin- is anyone keeping track of how many celibate orders there are in Game of Thrones?
Wasn’t there a bit in the prologue where Palpatine is described as just a stooge Emperor being controlled by other powerful interests?
And of course Jabba is just some fat guy in a motorized chair.
And Luke screws up his first trench run on the Death Star.
I know most mechanicals have vents, but feelings?
Yup. AotC, in specific; before then, there were numerous examples of Jedi marriages and Jedi children, though nearly all of them were expressed in the Expanded Universe (just a few examples: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Corran Horn, Nomi and Andur Sunrider).
Once Lucas installed the “no attachments” rule in AotC (to serve as a plot device for Anakin’s anger and rebellion against the Order), the EU writers had to work at retconning a lot of those relationships – Ki-Adi-Mundi was allowed to have wives because of gender imbalances among the Cereans, Corellian Jedi (like Horn) had a different tradition around bloodlines, etc.
Yes:
"Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.
Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears…"
From the First Saga
Journal of the Whills
Jar-Jar Binks, pulling the strings.
That could’ve been what the Emperor wanted people to think. 
The first part describes Palpatine in the prequels pretty clearly, actually. I’m guessing he painted himself as someone who’s really above it all, and blaming everyone else.
I think Lucas said in an interview that Jedi are like, allowed to have sex, they’re just not allowed to have serious relationships. (Probably friends with benefits type of deals are kosher)
And let’s face it: you can’t tell me a Jedi who looked like Ewan McGregor couldn’t score.
“This is the stud-muffin you are looking for.”
Maybe. But would he touch a candle?
BTW, this thread is bringing back memories. I had the paperback of the novelization back in the day, and literally read it until it fell apart. I think I knew the dialogue from that book better than I knew the dialogue from the film–and there were some considerable differences!
I’m very disappointed that there isn’t a Star Wars novel out there where someone calls Darth Vader a spoon.
You spoony Darth!
Foster as usual got it wrong. Obi-Wan really said “Fork you, Darth.”
Knife work if you can get it.