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.
It’s irrelevant what year the script is written. I’m simply saying that in order for the 2016 script to be consistent with the 1983 script, you have to be able to explain why Mon Mothma appears to be in a leadership role in events prior to the 1977 script.
(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)
That’s a good point. I must concede that I very often forget that the PT is canon and, frankly, I had forgotten her character appears in one of those prequel films.
So you say she was a senator in the PT? If that’s the case, then her timeline must be something like this:
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Is in the Republic Senate.
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Gets involved with the Rebellion. Presumably she becomes a leader of the Rebellion of some sort.
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Commissions spies to intercept the Death Star plans.
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Disappears roughly at that point from the events of ANH and TESB.
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Returns somehow in ROTJ as the leader of the Rebellion.