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:
Is in the Republic Senate.
Gets involved with the Rebellion. Presumably she becomes a leader of the Rebellion of some sort.
Commissions spies to intercept the Death Star plans.
Disappears roughly at that point from the events of ANH and TESB.
Returns somehow in ROTJ as the leader of the Rebellion.
Keep in mind that there are many factions of the Rebel Alliance, so I don’t see why she has to be everywhere Luke, Leia, Han, etc. is. Also she’s more of a political leader than a military tactician, so I fail to see why she had to be present on f.ex. Hoth. (In the old EU she was making herself useful elsewhere during these events.) Kep in midn that we only see the Rebels gathered four times in the OT. Why she wasn’t present during the DS attack can have many reasonable explanations, and now we see that she was present on Yavin in RO, her not being on Hoth is fairly easy to explain, she could have been present when the Rebel fleet gathered att he end of ESB even though we never saw her, and finally she was present when the Rebellion gathered to make a calculated attack on the DS II in ROTJ. (We also have no idea where she was during the 4-5 years between ANH and ESB in the new EU. I’m sure they’ll make some comics and novels to fill that gap soon.) Considering how the character was introduced in ROTJ, I think all of this makes a pretty decent Disney canon timeline.