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Post #1428159

Author
Neerb
Parent topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
7-May-2021, 12:05 AM

I think Leia appearing as a ghost in the Palpatine fight would hurt the payoff on Tatooine where Rey sees Leia, without adding enough to the Palpatine fight to compensate. Rey hearing Leia’s “always,” which Hal has already incorporated from the trailer, is satisfying enough without being distracting.

Maybe it’s just me, but when the ghosts appear against Palpatine, I see it as a kind of catharsis where these Jedi that have spent decades against The Sith are finally getting their due; Sidious is literally facing his ghosts. For Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Luke, that works and is satisfying enough, but for Leia? I’ve never had the impression from the movies that Leia and Palpatine had any real connection. Of course she was one of the major political and military opponents against the Empire as a whole, but she never had a big Jedi vs Sith connection, or a connection with Vader the way Luke did. Of course TROS finally introduces some more Jedi stuff for Leia, but in a fairly limited way, and if anything it felt more like the focus for Leia was on supporting Rey and saving Ben than battling Palpatine.