The one thing that a lot of people have issue with is Leia remembering her mother. I don’t. Leia is obviously force sensitive and picked up something from her mother in the womb. As many of us have confusing memories from when we were young (Luke making two throws with the grappling hook for instance), Leia may have confusing memories of a mother she never really saw with her own eyes. Lucas did a good job creating a character in ANH that fits with being Luke’s sister even if that wasn’t his original intention. But such surprising story revelation are common in myths. I’m curious if TROS will have some and if we can’t make another topic for that one after the film comes out (we can only intelligently discuss about half the ST because we don’t know how events in TROS might recolor what we have already seen as the revelation of Luke’s father and sister colored dialog and events in ANH and TESB).
Always love your posts so I promise I’m not trolling, but I think this ‘sister’ business is giving Lucas waaaay too much credit. George was basically clumsily writing his way out of a corner on this one, and it absolutely shows. We have obvious romantic overtones in the first two films, we have no evidence of Leia’s having been adopted other than a clumsy “hey Leia, you know how you were adopted” line from Luke in ROTJ, we have Yoda rejecting Luke on age grounds yet supposedly thinking an entirely untrained twin would not only be viable but also be amenable to being a potential Jedi despite the shock of suddenly being Vader’s daughter, we have Yoda making the initial ‘other’ claim while Leia was a prisoner on Bespin whose unforeseeable fate Yoda himself had implored Luke to sacrifice for the greater good etc etc etc. To then add the extra layer of Leia’s memories not squaring with the prequels (Lucas is demonstrated to have assumed that Leia’s mother had survived until the twins were toddlers back in ‘81) just shows Lucas’ very relaxed views when it comes to continuity, rather than some sophisticated grasp of mythology.