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Feb 16, 2017 - 1:16 PM
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SchiffyM
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I sure hope she isn't killed off. There are plenty of ways to write characters out of movies witnout killing them (which was my biggest complaint about The Force Awakens)
If there are other ways in this case, I don't know them. Obviously, I have no real idea of the plot of this movie or the plan for Leia in this one and the next. But given her importance in the mix (sister of good guy, mother of bad guy), her absence from the climax is not easily explained away ("Oh yeah, she had to make a quick stop in the Dagobah System, and you know what the traffic is like."). There are many clever people working on it, and maybe there are options I don't see (or can't, given what I don't know), but it's a quandary.
I would also say that Han wasn't killed so he could be written out. It was a creative choice, and it made sense to me.
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It would have been great to have Leia in a final confrontation with her son who killed the love of her life, having deluded himself into thinking he is honouring his grandfather. This would really have closed that circle perfectly.
But... let´s face it. Leia had never really been part of the great confrontational scenes in any Star Wars movie - so I doubt that she now would have gotten that one final scene in Episode IX. That will probably go to Rey. Or, at least, it will go to Luke - which still will make a lot of sense since he was Vader´s big hope, instead bringing Vader down - and now, probably, being responsible for Kylo Ren´s rise.
Also, there are only two options here: to write her out, showing respect for Carrie Fisher, or to use a double and CGI to bring her back, which IMO would be horrible and wrong.
By the way - this just in: the German title for "THE LAST JEDI" is "Die letzten Jedi", using the plural. Which underlines that the film will not only focus on the one remaining (Luke).
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It would have been great to have Leia in a final confrontation with her son who killed the love of her life, having deluded himself into thinking he is honouring his grandfather. This would really have closed that circle perfectly.
But... let´s face it. Leia had never really been part of the great confrontational scenes in any Star Wars movie - so I doubt that she now would have gotten that one final scene in Episode IX. That will probably go to Rey. Or, at least, it will go to Luke - which still will make a lot of sense since he was Vader´s big hope, instead bringing Vader down - and now, probably, being responsible for Kylo Ren´s rise.
Also, there are only two options here: to write her out, showing respect for Carrie Fisher, or to use a double and CGI to bring her back, which IMO would be horrible and wrong.
By the way - this just in: the German title for "THE LAST JEDI" is "Die letzten Jedi", using the plural. Which underlines that the film will not only focus on the one remaining (Luke).
I'm guessing that the reason Luke abandoned Kylo and Rey was because they were so adept at the Force, they required only the barest of training to excel in their skills, whether it's telepathy or piloting starships or otherwise. With so much power gained with so little wisdom, this could make them both dangerous, and with Kylo's betrayal, both had to be abandoned as Luke went into exile to assure their stagnation. Of course, this is one of a thousand questions left up in the air, in Disney all-too-obvious theatrical TV series franchise.
As for CG Leia, "horrible" perhaps, but "wrong"? Depends if Billie Lourd and the estate give their approval, as was similarly sought for Cushing's likeness in Rogue One. Whatever happens, happens.
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I have pretty much the best idea about how to send off Leia and have it work within the story, but strangely, no one has called me.
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