LOL. While overall I’m a big fan of “More Star Wars, Please,” I do sort of roll my eyes at the fixation on stories that are prequel to something and then end up bending over backwards to juuuust barely maintain continuity but require the audience to recontextualize conversations in ways that send our characters off on bizarre psychological and logistical tangents.
Leia sort of gets the worst of this:
This meme.
Ep3 turning the “real mother” conversation on Endor into a Simone Biles level of mental gymnastics: “Well, the memories must have been imprinted on me by the Force as an infant before Padme immediately peaced out, and I know you’re a 99% trained Jedi and were in the room with me, but I’m the only one who remembers (because girls?), or maybe there was just some other bitch on Alderaan that they told me was my real mom… so anyway, she was very kind.”
Rogue One turning the cheeky “We all know I’m a sympathizer but I’m also a Senator and leveraging that last bit of leverage before the Emperor dissolves the Senate in a later scene” and dialing the delusion up to eleven, with Vader thinking something like, “You motherfuckers, I JUST saw this ship leave a massive space battle two hours ago. I was literally striking a pose as you left.”
Personally, I like the bit about Rogue One. Because Leia Organa is definitely the kind of person who would tell a bald-faced lie to a six-foot-tall cyborg known for killing innocent people on a whim if just to buy her insane, last-ditch, Hail Mary plan of giving top secret data to an R2 unit and sending it after a person she hasn’t seen in over ten years who might be hiding who-knows-where on a desert planet a few more seconds.
There are a lot of problems with Disney Canon, Rogue One is not one of them.
LOL. While overall I’m a big fan of “More Star Wars, Please,” I do sort of roll my eyes at the fixation on stories that are prequel to something and then end up bending over backwards to juuuust barely maintain continuity but require the audience to recontextualize conversations in ways that send our characters off on bizarre psychological and logistical tangents.
Leia sort of gets the worst of this:
Personally, I like the bit about Rogue One. Because Leia Organa is definitely the kind of person who would tell a bald-faced lie to a six-foot-tall cyborg known for killing innocent people on a whim if just to buy her insane, last-ditch, Hail Mary plan of giving top secret data to an R2 unit and sending it after a person she hasn’t seen in over ten years who might be hiding who-knows-where on a desert planet a few more seconds.
There are a lot of problems with Disney Canon, Rogue One is not one of them.
Exactly - and it’s that which makes Leia the only disney princess which matters.