Thanks to my son and husband, I’ve seen the first three movies countless times. After yesterday’s Spike marathon, I came away with these questions.
Why does Leia get to be a princess and Luke a poor moisture farmer?
Do you mean to tell me the Jedi’s big comeback plan was to have the son kill his own father-- and not even tell him? Doesn’t that sound sorta Evil Empire-ish to you?
Why does Leia get to be a princess and Luke a poor moisture farmer?
Because that’s who adopts them. Your son and husband must have spared you from the prequel trilogy. It is explained in episode 3.
edit: I really don’t like having to cite epiosde 3. There must be an OT explanation for it somewhere. Maybe the explanation is just that it isn’t important.
WAG: The whole Luke and Leia being twins was a retcon, Lucas didn’t come up with it until he made RotJ.
come on man you can’t doubt George Lucas he had everything planned out from the beginning. Haven’t you seen the sketches of Jar Jar Binks from 1977
Yoda:
There is another. Incestuous longings there will be. Prove to be two-timing slut she is. Many metal bikini wearings, that is what makes RotJ great.
After seeing Episode 3 I always wondered why when Luke was given to his Uncle and Aunt, (seeing as how they were so young and Aunt Whatsername looked at the baby with such devotion) why didn’t they just raise him as their own. I mean, especially since they wanted him to be so totally unlike his father and all.
Senator Bail Organa adopted Leia because he and his wife always wanted a girl.
Yoda said that Luke should go back to his family on Tatooine.
Wait…how is Leia a two-timing slut?
Chewbacca knows, but he doesn’t kiss and tell.
As The Old Rebublic was crumbling, the surviving Jedi fled into exile hiding the children of Anakin in plain sight. Luke among his kin on Tatooine, watched over by Obi-Wan, Leia in a Senators household. Which went where is luck/writers choice/it was the '70’s*/the Senators wife always wanted a girl, choose your fanwank.
Well, in fairness, Luke (he always was a punk) ran out halfway through his training to face Vader, in that moment it was tell him/not tell him? Hmm, we have bigger fish to fry.
OTOH, The Emperors plan seemed to include standing with your back to the father while slowly and painfully killing his son. This sort of tactical acumen my give you some insight into the instability of the Star Wars governments.
*couldn’t very well have the girl on the desert planet, could they?
It was well established that the Jedi were taken in as little more than babies and raised without families, hence had little in the way of undestanding of family feelings. This is what led them to the mistake that brought them down, really, because they took in Anakin rather late, he had already formed a warm bond with his mother, and when they take him into the Jedi they leave his mother in slavery without a thought. It’s the loss of his mother to Tusken raiders that turns him to the Dark Side … that’s when he slaughtered the entire Tusken tribe that kidnapped her and tortured her to death, including the women and children.
If the Jedi had had ANY kind of clue about these things, they would have known enough to send a crew back to buy Anakin’s mother and see that she is safe.
So of course they would have had no clue about the effects of raising two siblings in such disparate households. QED baby!
Playin’ wit Luke and Han in the same episode, not to mention all that slug lovin’ at the Hutt Palace in the next one.
Is there some reference I’m missing to girls in the desert in the 70s? Or just saying that would be considered to be ‘too cruel’ or some such by the cultural standards of the time??
That ain’t the half of it. They put Luke with Anakin’s relatives, on his home planet, under his own name (Skywalker – kind of jumps out at you from the phone book, doesn’t it?). And Anakin’s former partner living next door under his own name (OK, he changed his first name from Obiwan Kenobi to “Old Ben” Kenobi). That’s not in plain sight, that’s putting him in a day-glow sequined jumpsuit with a neon sign above the front door reading “Darth: look here!”
No wonder they figure that the ideal infantry would be a bunch of clones who constantly bang their heads on doorways and couldn’t hit the side of a barn from point blank range with their blasters…
General Tagge: This station is now the ultimate power in the universe.
Stewie (as Darth Vader): That is fantastic. Terrific work. So no weaknesses at all?
General Tagge: N… no.
Darth Vader: You, uh, you hesitated there. Is there something I should know?
**General Tagge: **No, it’s virtually indestructible, like 99.99%.
Darth Vader: Uh, okay, wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t ask what’s the 0.01?
General Tagge: Well, I mean, there’s this little hole. It was kind of an aesthetic choice by the architect. And if you shoot a laser into this hole, the station blows up.
An unshielded exhaust port? Is that a necessity?
Oh, absolutely sir. The port can’t be shielded while it is discharging the exhaust.
Is that every minute of every day?
No sir.
How often is that?
Only after the weapon has fired.
So then, it can be shielded every second before and after that point, right?
Well, technically yes.
Oh, and whose idea was it to put an exhaust port at the bottom of a trench? I’d think that would be on a stack or something so as not to damage the surrounding structure.
Probably sir.
So then we should be building a stack and throwing up some shielding on it then, right?
Um, yes sir, we’ll get right on it.
No, your successors will be doing that.
Sir? GAAK! (thud)
The latter, have the boy child in the lap of royalty and put the girl on a brutal harsh desert planet? I think you overestimate the audiences openmindedness.
Besides, once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your plot devices.
Anakin was under the impression that he killed Padme and thus there were no offspring to look for. Also there’s no phone book on Tatoine, it’s kinda where people go to live off the grid.
I get the impression that Palps didn’t tell Vader that he had a son until after Luke had already joined the rebellion (between episodes 4 and 5), and he didn’t learn about Leia until he sensed it during his fight with Luke in RotJ.
Enemies with terrible precession are pretty much present in any movie with main characters who have to be in any kind of dangerous situation.
Wasn’t the whole “the son of Anakin Skywalker must not be allowed to live!” “yes master” scene in episode 4?
Probably Luke was just called Luke Lars on his school records. No one calls him Skywalker until he’s left home.
This.
It must be the answer. I mean, how else to explain the Leia/Luke tongue action in ESB? (Unless the Beard is one sick twist.)