SPECULATION The Impact of Leia's Death

I WANT A FUNERAL FOR LEIA & I WANT THEM 2 PLAY A HOLO (using archival footage) AS A MEMORIAL.

 

Probably a missed oportunity in TLJ. It was a great death in the space.
In my opinion the impact of Leia's death will be minor in EIX, at least for viewers, although they make a great funeral. I think It will appear in Openning Crawl or in an obviously way we won't see Carrie or any actress (cause the needed time jump?), so the impact will be reduced for us.
Probably in some characters like Ben or Poe could be much bigger. Ben will find that his acts destroyed his mother and could be redeemed for that and killing his father (i keep thinking when Han touch his son's face before dying is so powerful and important).
For Poe probably will grow in him the proper strength to rebuild a new kind of Rebellion.

 

That's all well & good but 2day Hollywood hates happy endings. Ren/Ben dies.

 

Assuming there is no status change on Lucasfilm not digitally re-creating Leia or using archival footage from VII or VIII, I think there will be an impact in terms of leveraging other OT/PT characters.

They will most certainly have to leverage Luke (which may not be all that different than originally planned), but I also think that this means there is a higher chance that we will see appearances from an Anakin (Hayden), a Lando (Billy Dee), and maybe -wishful thinking here- even a flashback scene with Han (Harrison). I think that Carrie's untimely passing means that IX has to have more tools in its toolbox to bring in the older fans.

 

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Exactly.

If it's just 2 minutes of ghost Luke & no ghost Anakin or no Han flashback or no archival holo Leia. Then I'll just watch 9 once.

U can't sell a TON of older fans on just the new kids ALONE.

Hell, get Wedge 2 comeback! ANYTHING!

 

Disney offered Wedge's actor a chance to be in TFA, but he turned it down because he said it would "bore" him.

 

Somehow Judy Dench's M in SPECTRE comes to my mind, briefing Bond for his next mission after her passing.

 

I really love this outlook and i think could be really powerful (if people are open to star wars having some complex emotional arcs) and i feel in my opinion Daisy and Adam can pull this off performance wise.

i think her passing is what is going to spark the force bond again that have been cut off for a few years. through mutual pain they will regain that footing and understanding they had in TLJ

 

Except that Kylo wasn't exactly concerned with her potential death when he ordered "Take no prisoners.". He knew that she was in there.

 

It will surely haunt him like the deaths of Han and Luke will and after that we can only speculate. What we DO have is him ordering the potential death of Leia. Being haunted by killing his own father didn't make him want to kill Luke any less either. The haunting does not mean remorse.

 

But did he? Last he knew she was on Snokes shuttle. No way of knowing that she was there or in falcon.

I have a theory that the force bond is still there post Snoke being dead but now it’s not the far reaching of the galaxy it only happens when they are a lot closer

Just a thought

 

We are talking about Leia. Either way, you wanna sell that Kylo and Rey still have that super-strong connection but he didn't know she was on the Falcon when he ordered it shot down? Haha, no, but that is a debate for another thread.

 

Regarding Leia, she should have been killed off in TLJ. It's just ridiculous to play with her like that and make the audience believe she's dead only to have her force-pull back into the ship. For one it's risky and messes with a lot of lore, and two the viewers know carrie fisher is dead. So to have her die in the film basically, only to come back from the void of space is offsetting.

And I agree. If Leia had to have survived the blast at the beginning of the film -- then her replacing Holdo on that hyperspace attack would have been great.

Also, that's a good point about Rey. Assuming Leia is killed off early in Ep 9 (if not before Ep9), it'll be interesting to see how Rey reacts to it. Rey already channeled anger once after losing a parentlike figure. When Kylo killed Han, she showed a lot of rage when dueling Kylo. If Rey is to turn to darkness in some capacity due to Leia's demise, I believe it'd set up for some reunion between her and Kylo in which they both come together at the end of Ep9 and both fill each other's emotional voids

 

I agree

--- Double Post Merged, Jan 17, 2018, Original Post Date: Jan 17, 2018 ---

I apologise didnt mean to go off target a bit

 

LOL, you are an endless source of excuses for that character, all because you want him romantically linked to Rey. If you can't see that he's evil by now, then you are willfully ignoring what he has done so that you can justify your desires for the character.