• turmacar@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    RotJ is where Lucas started to not have pushback on story ideas. It still mostly works but some silliness is leaking through. Especially in the Special Edition, but Empire is the only one that really wasn’t effected by those.

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      4 months ago

      100% agree! RotJ is where the cracks started to show. I think people forget this because all the nonsense that followed, starting with the Special Editions, makes RotJ seem restrained in comparison.

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      4 months ago

      I honestly cannot believe you forgot about the Skywalker twins.

      “I’ve always known.”

      Somehow.

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        4 months ago

        Still not as stupid as George’s decision to have Leia remember their mother as “beautiful but sad” and then have Padme die two minutes after Leia is born. Like, damn, Leia’s got a good memory.

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          4 months ago

          I would be generous and interpret that as Leah remembering Bail Organa’s wife (who it must remembered, she thought was her mother until like, an hour before that conversation), or else constructing memories of an ideal woman.

          At least, until Obi Wan, but whatever

          Your point still stands. She only found out she was adopted like an hour prior.

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            She only found out she was adopted like an hour prior.

            Wait, who did she find this out from? Her adoptive parents were presumably killed in Star Wars with the destruction of Alderaan.

            It’s also implied that she knew she was adopted. Luke asks her “do you remember your mother, your real mother?” and Leia replies “Just a little bit. She died when I was very young”.