Where is she during the attack on the Death Star? It’s the Rebellion’s most crucial hour and she’s leading some futile protest of the dissolution of the Senate?
Never mind the fact that according to the original ROTJ script, Mon Mothma was never mentioned as being a member of the Imperial Senate.
Where was she during the medal ceremony? Luke, Han, Chewie, and, I suppose Wedge, just saved the entire galaxy and the entire Rebellion and she’s not present?
Well, the attack on the Death Star was kind of improvised, and hardly a planned attack. They had plans to attack it at some point after the’d received the tech plans yes, but they hadn’t expected the DS to show up at their doorstep. And although the length of space travel tend to vary from film-to-film, we don’t know how log it would take Mon Mothma to get to Coruscant, or wherever she went, and back again in time for a ceremony. I mean there is a whole galaxy for Mothma to have gone during these unexpected events that took place over no more than a couple of days.
Never mind the fact that according to the original ROTJ script, Mon Mothma was never mentioned as being a member of the Imperial Senate.
Mon Mothma’s character hadn’t even been created during the production of ANH, so I hardly see how that has any impact on a prequel movie made in 2016.
(And as a somewhat relevant side-note, she was part of the Republic Senate in the PT and Clone Wars series which is part of the DisneyEU, so it’s not improbable that her role as an Imperial Senate member will be re-canonized)