“Princess, please. I literally just saw you fly away from the battle on this very ship like ten minutes ago.”
how does his response, “you’re a member of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor,” conflict with anything in RO?
What I meant was that, watching ANH for the first time, you could imagine that she might still have a bluff worth playing here, that Vader might suspect but not have proof. The whole “holding her is dangerous” thing. They were at the point where they were ready to kick away the last supports of the old republic ideals, the last means of legal resistance against the New Order within the system. That sort of talk never came up subsequently.
I just feel that there’s a difference in context between ANH as originally seen where Vader is pretty sure he’s got her number and the context of RO where he clearly saw this ship fly away and there’s no denying it. It’s the difference between having suspicious charges on your spouse’s credit card and them keeping late hours “at the office” but nobody answers when you call and seeing them come out of an hourly hotel kissing someone goodbye. There’s “I suspect you are having an affair” and “‘Honey, it’s not what you think?’ You’re really going to run with that?”
Either this is the way it strikes you or it doesn’t.