Friday, May 17, 2013

Leia

I was thinking about how Star Wars is about the complicated family dynamic between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, but really Princess Leia had it worse. All Vader did to Luke is cut off his hand and try kill him on three separate occasions. That thing with the Skywalkers getting burnt to a crisp really didn’t have anything to do with him, plus Obi Wan kind of had it coming after he cut off his arms and legs and left him in the lava to die. Beyond that, it’s all politics and lasers. As for Leia, he captured and tortured her and would supposedly have carried out her execution if given the chance. Oh, and he blew up her home planet and her adoptive family and everyone she ever knew or cared about. He didn’t give the order, but he was standing like two feet away when it happened. Then he dipped her boyfriend in carbonite and gave him to a bounty hunter, because he apparently is prejudiced against nerf herders. Then, after all that, he thought about offering her the same job he was going to give to Luke. Why didn’t he start off trying to recruit Leia? He had to have known she was his daughter and could use the Force. Why not just try and hire her on the spot instead of subjecting her to torture and mass-genocide? There’s no rule saying you can only have one Skywalker at a time.

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