Post by egon1982 on May 20, 2019 12:55:50 GMT
Leia being Luke's sister which is just completely unnecessary and makes the moments with Luke and Leia in the first two films images of incest because of such a revelation(Thanks George!), i mean it's just a halfassed attempt to recreate the surprise shock of Empire Strikes Back.
I hate it when people say that two scenes in Empire Strikes Back are proof that Leia was Luke's sister.
What scenes am I talking about? The scene at the end when Luke communicates with her via the force and she hears him, and the scene with Yoda earlier when he says "There is another."
These are only proof that Leia is Luke's sister by default. There is nothing in the film that says that you have to have the force to be able to her thought messages from people with the force. There is also nothing in that statement by Yoda that directly mentions that Leia is the "Another" he is talking about. It could be anyone. Hell it could be the light side of Anakin, or some other Jedi.
It wasn't until George Lucas decided to throw in a lazy twist in Return Of The Jedi and make Leia Luke's sister that these scenes became so called proof. So that honestly if you ask me? Doesn't make them proof at all. Circumstantial Evidence at best. But no smoking gun.
So when people say I need to do my research when talking about this? They need to think long and hard about what they are even saying. No. There is no way George thought of Leia being Luke's sister until he started writing or helping out with Return Of The Jedi.
There is no mention of it at all in Star Wars. In fact Leia is written as a character who is technically Luke's friend throughout the entire movie. The movie's posters even reflect that, with Leia draped over his leg. Empire has hints that are only hints because of what came after, because she still kisses Luke before he goes off to Dagobah. If you were really kissing your brother? You would know it the moment you first kissed that something wasn't right. Then in Return Of The Jedi? The bomb was dropped and it was only then when Leia was outed as Luke's sister. I mean why could Lucas just make them friends instead of brother and sister as the kiss images from Star Wars and Empire gave us incest images.
Never before. So if you think that was the plan all along? You really need to look at the evidence a lot more closely. Because there is not a shred that is 100 percent conclusive that proves that this was the idea all along.
And here's a great article that further proves my case. With quotes from Gary Kurtz and more.
Luke and Leia kiss
Personally Lucas was just being lazy and could had just made Leia and Luke good friends instead of bro and sister which was just lame and lazy yet gives us icky incest images, but still Return of the Jedi is a good movie nevertheless.