lastjedi said:

i'm sure ady knows about the scene in rotj where luke talks to leia asking her if she remembers her mom.and leia replies just images,feelings really.saying she remembers her being very beautiful but sad.there is no way leia could remember her mother.it's a shame lucas didn't have padme dying by the emperor torturing her to find out where she hid the baby.lucas should have waited also till the babies were at least 2 or 3 so what leia says makes sense.lucas obviously didn't think this through.you think someone at ilm would have said something to him about this when he was making rots.but i have a feeling he surrounds himself with yes men.

As much as I loathe the prequels, I had never had a problem with Leia's line in ROTJ and Padme dying at that point in ROTS matching up. We are talking about Force-sensitive children here, and it's perfectly possibly that Leia was more aware of something of her mother when born than Luke was. They didn't have to be on equal Force-sensitivity footing at that point. In fact, I think it makes it more interesting if you think that Leia was actually the more potentially powerful one and they picked Luke seemingly at the flip of a coin.