SPECULATION Leia, do you remember your mother, your real mother?

I don't know why it popped in my head, but I was thinking of that rather awkward and (pardon the pun) forced scene in RoTJ when Luke asks Leia about her real mother. I may be blanking, but I can't for the life of me remember if they ever had the "I'm adopted," and "Hey! Me too!" kind of conversation together. I strikes me as real-time ret-conning, and the more I think about it, the more it kind of irks me. What about y'all?

 

That's what I figured with the benefit of many, many viewings and lots of hindsight. But that scene and the one before it where Luke talks to Force Ghost Ben about having a sister ("Leia's my sister!") kind of comes out of nowhere for the viewer. I mean, just a few scenes before, Luke was swinging on a rope holding a gold-bikini-clad Leia, so even by that point, it's not out of the realm of possibility there's some romantic chemistry between them. So when the whole brother-sister-thing comes, for the viewer, it's like, "Wait, what?"

(And I'm totally ignoring the already much-discussed plot hole rendered by the PT of Leia remembering a mother that died minutes after she was born)

 

I accept a lot of plot-hole-induced cognitive dissonance when it comes to Star Wars, but this is still one scene that gives me fits. And you're right @Darby it's probably best to take a "nothin' to see here, move along" sort of attitude with this one

 

Yeah, I'm of the same mind about the remembering her mother bit. But I blame the confusion on the PT.

But you also bring up another interesting bit...can you imagine a King Joffrey with double the Skywalker DNA? He would probably make Sheev look like a magician at a kid's birthday party. But that's a whole 'nother thread altogether. ..

 

Good points about Padme, and yup, and scenes like that do seem like George was hurrying things along a tad.

 

I'd say it's a pretty good one

 

If anyone from the OT is going to survive (other than Threepio and Artoo), it's going to be Leia. She's the character that combines Luke's idealism, Han's fighting spirit (not to mention they can go toe-to-toe in the smart-alecky wit department) with her own innate pragmatism and savvy. She'd be the one to carry the banner for what they fought for, and create something new.

I'm also interested to see how her relationship with her twin brother developed, especially with the knowledge of their parentage.

I also feel that she has the most practical responsibility. Luke can retreat into the Force, and Han can go back to being a rogue, but Leia carries the weight of leading the Rebellion/New Republic to make a better galaxy.

 

Please feel free to correct me, because I could be mis-remembering, but I thought Owen was Anakin's step-brother (Wasn't Owen already an adolescent/young-adult when his father freed and married Shmi?) rather than half-brother.

 

S' OK that was just a nit-picky semantic thing. You're right though, he did meet Owen briefly when he massacred the sand people to save his mother. Bu Anakin probably never even gave Owen and Beru a second-thought, and never would've even considered they would foster a kid he thought was dead.

And you're also right, Anakin wasn't actually born on Tatooine. He and his mother were brought there as slaves, but Tatooine does hold the most psychological meaning to him I think.

That's why I find the brother-sister revelation in ROTJ so irksome--even if you take out the clunky ret-conning of the PT, it still feels rushed and shoe-horned in.