Kenobi Insists Yoda Was Right About Leia In Empire Strikes Back
Obi-Wan Kenobi continues a Disney Star Wars trend by further insisting Yoda was correct about Leia Organa being "another" hope in The Empire Strikes Back. The crux of the Star Wars saga for over 40 years has been the Skywalker family. From Anakin in the prequel trilogy to Rey and Kylo Ren in the sequels, the Skywalker Saga has been the central focus of the franchise. This began, however, with the central hero of the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker, but arguably just as important is his twin sister, Princess Leia.
One thing Disney’s sequel trilogy certainly allowed for, despite their divisive reception among Star Wars fans, was a greater focus on other legacy characters. While Luke had his fair share of screen time in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Han Solo received an emotional arc in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the often under-appreciated Leia Organa got a lot of new material across the sequel trilogy as well. This, combined with a certain reaffirmation in Obi-Wan Kenobi, proves Yoda has always been right with his claim about the Skywalker sibling.
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One line threw the Star Wars fandom into endless theories and discourse in 1980: “No, there is another.” Yoda says this in The Empire Strikes Back in response to Obi-Wan stating that Luke is their last hope against the Empire. At the time, many were confused about whom Yoda was talking about. However, with the confirmation that Luke and Leia are siblings coming three years later, in Return of the Jedi, the queries were answered. Yoda has always known of Leia’s importance to the Skywalker family and the galaxy at large, an importance that is only reinforced by Leia’s adoptive father Bail Organa in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 1. After Leia
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