The Golden Idol said:

Bingowings said:

I just posted this on the Prequel Redux thread but it kind of needs to go here too.

Bingowings said : One of the problems with ROTS is Padme's death and there have been various suggestions kicked around like her dying later in a flow of time montage or just dying in more dignified way.

What if she dies (no giving up but she is too ill to survive and dies after giving birth) but she disappears.

A total mystery to Ben but not to Yoda who already is getting messages from beyond.

That way Leia can see her in dreams and images of her ghostly form as a little girl (evidence of her nascent Force powers).

When Luke sees his father Ben and Yoda Leia sees her Mother and father reunited (she doesn't know Ben or Yoda so doesn't see them).

Think Curse Of The Cat People.

Too wacky for the room?

Princess Leia does know Ben...

With respect she knows Ben like you know Dwight D. Eisenhower (only she got to see him for all of two seconds before Vader killed him).

To be honest you could even ditch the Qui-Gon connection and being a Force Ghost could be purely a way of Padme protecting and watching over her children from beyond the grave (possibly Anakin's suppressed good side is doing it subconsciously), a secret she may have shares with Yoda and Ben.

In my previous mockup of Qui-Gon's ghost on Dagobah you could replace it with a picture of her instead.

She serves very little purpose in ROTS (just birthing machine and choke victim really).

Having her the secret behind the Force ghosts gives her a larger role in the story and Leia a hidden spiritual arc like her brother.

Her line could drop the "she died when I was very young" so she just says "When I was very young...just images, feelings really".

It might be possible to add a shot in the ROTS round up sequence of little Leia on Alderaan seeing the ghost of Padme near her bed to replace her funeral.