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Feb 10, 2010 17:30

Rereading "Shadows of the Empire", I found this passage from Leia's POV, when she's just woken from a dream/memory of Han getting frozen in carbonite.

She felt the emotions well, felt them threaten to spill out in tears, but she fought it. She was Leia Organa, Princess of the Royal Family of Alderaan, elected to the Imperial Senate, a worker in the ( Read more... )

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I agree nivenus February 12 2010, 20:33:26 UTC

Actually, I think more writers get that right than you give credit for. Leia is often the moral extremist in the novels, whereas Luke is willing to be more forgiving and compromising. Even the NJO books get that largely right, with Leia's harsh rivalry with Borsk Fey'lya while Luke tries to find a middle ground between pacifism and militantism in the fight against the Vong.

It's too bad Padme didn't live up to Leia's example.

Re: I agree joysweeper February 12 2010, 20:41:17 UTC

Some. In a lot she's... kind of bleh. Admittedly I haven't reread most of the EU recently, but I do remember that my initial impression of her, before I got back to Zahn and was actually able to follow the story, was of someone more yielding.

I actually really like the idea that maybe in skillsets Luke took after their father, Leia after their mother, but in temperament it's the other way around. I like how in some media Leia's more prideful and overbearing, more confident of her authority. Though Luke's still better than Padme.

Re: I agree nivenus February 12 2010, 20:48:46 UTC

Well, it may well be that Lucas just can't write women very well. Leia seems to be the only exception to that and I can't help but wonder if that has something to do with the fact that he was still married when he wrote ANH (and his wife had a major role in most of his films at that time) and that in the later films other writers had a major part ( ... )

Re: I agree joysweeper February 12 2010, 21:00:25 UTC

There's that, too.

I just found her uninteresting, honestly, and with those reasons it makes sense. Her role was just so flat - the gentle, motherly wife who wants peace and plays seminarrator. She made decisions and had to do things in TPM at least, but it seems like after that she fell more into the background.

Have you read Stover's novelization of RoTS?

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