Given the thickness of Jabba’s neck and the muscles it would take to just hold his head up, Leia would have had to use much greater than female-normal upper body strength to strangle him. Zero leverage too, just brute strength.
The Thrawn Trilogy pretty much says that Leia hasn’t trained as much as she should have. She is still very much a beginner in the ways of the Force. Not in Mara’s class by any means, but not weak either.
I think it can go either way…but I’m leaning towards Leia isn’t very strong with the force. On one hand, at the end of Empire, she senses Luke reaching out to her using the force. On the other hand, Luke never sensed that Leia was strong with the force either, he did eventually figure it out, but he never seeemed to sense it higher than a subconsious level.
Back to the original post, was it mentioned how many minutes of screentime Vader had in Empire or Jedi?
Well, dads can be pretty oblivious.
Hmm. Interesting theory. I’m convinced that the Luke/Leia sibling angle was made up completely after the first movie, but I’m not so sure on the Luke/Vader one being made up. Yes, there’s nothing in Episode IV pointing directly to it, but there’s also nothing that directly counters it - the conversation about Luke’s dad is pretty vague. I think they set the ground for the connection but purposely didn’t allude to it because at the time, no one thought the movie would be a hit and that Lucas would only get one film - so no need to create plotlines that wouldn’t get resolved. (Of course, today they would purposely put in open plotlines to help them get a sequel).
Then again, Luke and Leia kiss in ESB too, which you think he would cut down on if he suddenly decided to make them siblings, so maybe Lucas is just weird.
Obi Wan: “A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.”
That’s… pretty direct.
Obi-Wan also calls Vader “Darth” like it was a first name rather than a title. Lucas was totally making it up on the fly.
I love the idea that Vader’s whole ‘breathing mask’ system and its whole Obi-Wan lava-fight backstory all grew out of an early draft of his entrance scene onto Leia’s ship where he spacewalks for some reason, so he needed a pressure suit…
The really grating thing about this “goof” is that it would have been so easy to fix in the prequels if Lucas had given a sh!t about making things make sense. All it would have taken was one line by Obi-Wan, which Ewan would have killed with his penchant for being smarmy, something like, “Oh, you’ve become a Sith, have you? Change your first name to Darth and everything, I guess?” Then sprinkle in a couple of taunts with “Darth” like it was a name and bingo, loose end tied up nicely.
Ben: I hope its not another whiner.
Yoda: Hot this chick is. Strong she is with the space bitch.
Freaky, super, she is. Taking home to mother, that is not her kind.
Luke to Solo: “You like my sister? She’s HOT, huh?”
Solo: “I’d like to do her run in twelve parsecs.”
I’ve got your 12 parsecs right here… SWINGIN’
She wasn’t using the Force. Luke had been using it since he was a kid, though he didn’t know it that was how he was a good pilot, and he was using it like crazy when Vader was chasing him down the trench. Leia would hardly have used it at all, only when she was subtly influencing people during diplomatic negotiations (and even then that would’ve been rare, politicians have strong wills).
Being as this thread has already taken a turn in that direction, I’ll add that one of the other factoids mentioned in the article is that Carrie Fisher did the entire movie without a bra.
All the more reason for her to need it, then. The simple little hand-wave monotone only works on the weak-willed, but a master negotiator who happened to be strong in the Force would be using it a lot more subtly than that. And if nothing else, sensing the emotions of other politicians would be incredibly useful.
Where is this article.
Leia kisses Luke to annoy Han, not for directly romantic reasons, or at least directly related to Luke. Her force sensitivity is hinted at throughout the movie and just about confirmed at the end. So while I agree that Leia was not originally Lukes twin, I think by the time of the shooting of ESB, she was…or at least a backup.
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side and it keeps the Universe together. And Carrie’s boobs from bouncing.
If you look carefully at a couple of scenes in ESB you can see proof she is braless.
It’s not an article yet. It was a forum thread at Cracked for an upcoming photoplasty contest.