muddyknees2000 said:
Bingowings said:
I don't hate the character. The line in ROTJ is the problem.
Clearly it's not just me.
You insinuated that Leia was possibly somewhat unlikeable due to her actions and I replied that you'd be the only one I had heard of ever having THAT issue. I never said you were the only one having an issue with the "incest situation"......I simply provided a counter argument, and stated that I personally never saw it the same way or had any problem with it.
Not so.
The problem with Leia begins and ends in ROTJ.
Up until that point the character and the audience thought Luke was a nice guy who she might become romantically involved with. She just ended up preferring the scoundrel over the hero.
I love the character. She's a complicated girl, letting Chewie choke Lando and choking Jabba demonstrates their is more than a little of her dad in her but I don't think she is playing games with Luke's affections at that point. Neither of them know they are siblings (the writer didn't even know). She might have ended up with him if he wasn't.
The problem with that kiss comes from that line, not from the character. It's an utterly bonkers thing to say in the context of what's gone before.
Put yourself in her shoes for a moment.
She has just discovered the guy who tortured her and her boyfriend and was partly responsible for the destruction of her home planet is her best friend's dad.
She then finds out that he is her brother so that means Vader is her dad as well and on top of all that...
That's a whole bowl of scrambled heads there.
And she says she somehow always knew???
Seriously??
You can almost see little Anakin's TPM declaration of love for Padme or AOTC's creepy sex looks over the horizon after that bit of shifty dialogue.
It's a problem caused in ROTJ so it needs fixing in that film not in ESB which is faultless. It's bad enough Leia has little to do in that film but to paint her as sexually weird is kind of letting the character down.