Tyrphanax said:
Bingowings said:
Leia has her own reasons to be repelled by the notion that her hero/brother is related to the thing that killed her homeworld (the glossing over her reaction to her being his daughter is a giant misstep in this film).
The fact that Alderaan is never mentioned again, and especially not during this key scene always bothered me.
The best way to watch SW movies is never look at the previous movies, and you can forgive the flaws in plot holes.
The great thing about growing up (before the days of VCR/DVD) was that the movies would come on Cable and you would watch them individually and not think of the other movies. I watched SW on HBO a zillion times in 1983, and finally ESB came to HBO in 1986 and I watched that a zillion times. The same with Jedi, as I believe that came to HBO in 1988.
Even though we had a VCR, I never bought movies back then, and because of that I never thought of the SW Trilogy as 'one big story' when I was watching them. You kind of watched them with a grain of salt ignoring the writing flaws.
Once the PT came out, Lucas was so hellbent on fans watching the movies as one big story, in a particular order, and if you do that the plot holes stick out like a sore thumb. Just watch the OT movies as individual movies (with the idea that they are a trilogy in the back of your mind) and you will enjoy them alot more.