Yeah but it’s less like the reaction to mass murder and more like a case of indigestion.
Could say the same or worse about Leia to her home planet. It’s not Rabbit Hole.
To be fair, we never saw her reaction to its actual destruction, only getting back to her hours later.
Nevertheless, this is a failure of SW '77.
Or just a deliberate creative decision. Leia is still technically a supporting character to Luke, so it makes sense to merely imply some character moments. After all, they shot a reaction for her planet’s destruction but chose to cut it, probably to keep the focus on Luke.
People here are right about Lucas struggling with emotional storytelling, but this is true too. In ANH, Leia’s pretty much just a supporting character, and gets far less development and screentime than Luke and Han, and even Obi-Wan. Not showing her reaction seems weird in retrospect, now that Empire and Jedi have made her as important of a character as Luke, but she’s not as big of a character in ANH. Dwelling on her reaction seems sort of weird to me.
G&G-Fan said:
That’s another thing that a lot of people miss. When he says “Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor” that obviously means he faced him before. Obviously he was witness to the Emperor’s power first hand. That actually becomes a plot hole for anyone who removes that duel from the movie, because now how else would he know the Emperor’s power? It fits into the original trilogy perfectly.I always took the line to mean that Anakin tried to beat the Emperor somehow and failed, thus becoming his thrall. How exactly would require some good writing. Instead Anakin was just dumb and fell for the most basic emotional trickery, then allowed Mace Windu die. And Yoda just knew all of Palpatine’s powers ahead of time, since he saw them from Dooku and wasn’t even surprised by them. They’re now just basic evil powers anyone can learn.
What’s even crazier is that Palpatine straight up tells him that he doesn’t actually know how to save people from death and Anakin still goes along with everything.
Like, it’s probably not so easy for him to just kinda leave Palpatine, but his entire motive for him turning to the dark side, he is literally told is a lie before he even becomes Darth Vader.
Maybe his tinnitus was acting up after so many explosions in the Clone Wars and he didn’t hear him. Still though, what a dumbass.