Star Wars May Have Fixed a Huge Return of the Jedi Plot Hole
Star Wars may have quietly fixed a major Princess Leia plot hole in Return of the Jedi. George Lucas always likes to pretend he had everything planned out from the start, but it's easy to tell that wasn't the case. For one thing, he certainly can't have settled on the idea of having Luke and Leia be siblings when he wrote The Empire Strikes Back, because he'd surely have avoided that incestuous kiss.
Return of the Jedi seems to imply Luke and Leia's mother lived for several years after Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side. Leia even remembers Padmé. "She died when I was very young," she recalls. "She was very beautiful. Kind, but sad." In the original novelization of the film by James Kahn, Obi-Wan's Force ghost tells Luke, "When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible." According to Obi-Wan, Luke's mother took Leia to Alderaan to be brought up there. Of course, this dialogue does not appear in the film, and the prequel trilogy takes a different approach, with Padmé dying in childbirth. Obi-Wan's words can be hand-waived away — he was never known for his honesty — but Leia's memories are rather more problematic.
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The 2020 Star Wars manga Leia: Princess of Alderaan, adapted from Claudia Gray's novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan, may provide an answer. It reveals that young Leia experienced dreams and nightmares — clearly intended to be visions from the Force. Other tie-in comics have revealed Leia experienced similar nightmare-visions in adulthood, and had no idea they were a result of the Force. Those childhood
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