Mourning Becomes Leia

[patgreene]

While following a link in a comment thread at Slacktivist, I ran across a post by writer Kit Whitfield on her blog about plausibility in fictional worlds, and it got me thinking about a major reason I do not find the Star Wars movies (which I saw again over the holiday weekend) nearly as interesting as I did when I was seventeen. Bear with me -- I

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[anotheranon]

Now that you mention it, Leia's stoicism is remarkable - upon arriving on Yavin IV she immediately tells the general that they "don't have time for their sorrows" or some such. Unrealistic plot hole you can drive a truck through...

I say this as someone who loves the original Star Wars too...

[patgreene]

I hated it when she said that -- it made her sound so callous.

[wordweaverlynn]

I definitely agree. One reason I can watch Pulp Fiction despite the violence is that the movie gives violence its due moral weight. But when the "good guys" are blasting people right and left with no apparent remorse, I have a hard time seeing them as good.

[aquaeri]

I can't even begin to think of the characters in Star Wars as real enough people to notice issues like that. It's a mythological tale, to me.