I think there are just a few lines with Leia saying she’s Luke’s brother. Then there’s her sensing Han’s death, and that’s it.
EDIT: nevermindAnd Ren calling Vader “grand father”.
😄 That Ren never keeps his mouth shut!
I really have never understood the problem some have had with Leia and Luke being siblings. It’s not the greatest example of script writing in history, but it works and ties the plot together. It resolves the love triangle, explains why Leia was able to sense Luke with the force at the end of Empire and who the “other” Yoda was talking about was, gives Luke motivation to attack Vader (which is why any ROTJ fan edit would fall apart), allows for the existence of Kylo Ren (at least as Han and Leia’s son rather than Luke’s), etc. Even watching just the first movie, there’s nothing that contradicts it. Does it seem like kind of a crazy coincidence that they would happen to meet like that in such a large galaxy? Maybe (though not as much when you consider that they were connected via Obi-Wan), but the entire Star Wars plot is built on such coincidences. You have to suspend your disbelief a little and just allow “the force” to explain some of this to enjoy these movies. Star Wars is a fantasy with magic steeped in mythological storytelling tradition, remember, not some kind of hard sci-fi based on realism.
This is why I left them being brothers and sisters in my edit. Removing that entire plot point would practically break the movie no matter how much you hate it.
Not necessarily. I think I was able to make it work in the end, even in giving Luke another important reason to attack Vader (though it wasn’t easy to achieve 😄 ).
As for why one would want to make such an edit, I say because it could’ve been done differently. Isn’t it already a good motivation? I saw edits which turns SW movies into black-and-white films, television shows, parodies… there’s no end to what one could try and do, even with a single movie as a source, which is why I like editing as well as watching others’ edits.