Tag: princess leia
“Those two were always going to get on. They have the same cynical, jaded view of the world.” – Fred Roos on Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, from An Imperfect Hero, page 122.
Star Wars Episode IV “A New Hope”
A (probably unsuccessful) long-term attempt to gif every DVD I own: 9 of ?
So I’m picturing Leia getting escorted from her cell for reasons unknown to her, Darth Vader a step behind her, and she’s trying to figure out what’s happening, and then after a few very lengthy elevator rides she round the corner and sees…
this bitch and she just powerwalks to Tarkin, and Vader’s like, wait what, and Leia is honestly excited because here’s a person she knows and hates, and she’s like, “what should I insult? His hair? His family? His personal habits? Can I insult Vader at the same time?” and then doesn’t flinch when Vader bumps her shoulder like “What the hell, Organa,” but just continues with her lil’ diatribe.
have you ever met a 19 year old girl though? this is like the most true-to-life shit george lucas ever wrote, of course pissed off leia would charge straight up to someone she hates under heavy guard on an enemy ship to tell him he fucking stinks. it’s only because this is sci fi that she doesn’t put gum in his hair as a finisher.
#I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE BUT #*LITERALLY* HAN IS EXPERIENCING EVERY HUMAN EMOTION IN THE SPAN OF FIVE MILLISECONDS AS HE WAITS WITH BAITED BREATH #FOR LEIA’S REPLY #AND WHEN SHE DOESN’T REALLY SAY ANYTHING #LIKE ANYTHING AT ALL #BECAUSE LEIA IS EXPERIENCING TIME AND SPACE LIKE A NORMAL HUMAN AND NOT WHATEVER FUGUE STATE HAN HAS ENTERED #HAN THEN EXPERIENCES ANOTHER FULL SPECTRUM OF EMOTION #ENDING WITH ‘I’LL HIDE MY CRUSHING SADNESS WITH A JERKISH DEVIL-MAY-CARE ATTITUDE’ #MEANWHILE LEIA FINISHED BLINKING AND NOW IS LEFT WITH THE NEARLY INSURMOUNTABLE TASK OF DECIPHERING WTF JUST HAPPENED #star wars (via watertribegirl)
ok so Leia was heading to Obi-wan before the Battle of Scarif, and before she ever knew she or anyone would have the plans. It wasn’t just a last resort, “vader’s bout to get us we gotta go somewhere” decision. the fact that she was going to Obi-wan is probably the reason she was with the rebels and not on Alderaan.
so think in the context that a) Bail was knowingly sending his daughter, who has the genes of one of the most powerful force users ever, to go get a Jedi, b) Bail knew that he was sending the biological child of Anakin to Anakin’s former master and friend, c) Obi-wan definitely would knows who Leia is, d) Bail knows that Obi-wan is keeping an eye on Luke.
I’m not saying Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother, but Bail Organa knowingly sent his force sensitive daughter to the only fully trained Jedi he knew how to get in touch with and also her force sensitive brother. Because he and Mon Mothma decided things had gotten to this point.
Someone in the tags said “Bail didn’t send the plans to Obi-wan. Bail sent Leia.”
YES. The Death Star plans were a last minute bonus. Bail’s actual plans for dealing with the Empire and the Death Star was LEIA
Leia was always his plan, even before the EU went entirely to hell and Disney rebooted it.
While other nobles of similar rank were in finishing school or going off to academies, Leia was learning to fight, she was learning to resist interrogation methods, she was building up resistance to the most commonly used truth serums in the galaxy, willingly dosing herself of a regular basis—that’s why the torture droid on the Death Star doesn’t work, she’s spent her whole young adult life training for the moment when she might be captured and tortured for information.
She was learning ciphers and codes, and using her royal upbringing to maneuver through social circles where lowly resistance spies—the lower classes, the non humans, the poor, the sick, the most vulnerable under Palpatine’s rule—would stick out like a sore thumb and be in immediate danger. She was using her class and privilege to fight back against a tyrannical rule, both as a senator and as a spy. She’s not even aware of her Force abilities at this point, though they probably help in some instinctual level. But other than that? It’s all her.
I’m not sure if it’ll be considered canon anymore, but in the radio adaptation of A New Hope some grimy Imperial shitlord who is tasked with “finding rebels” on Alderaan makes romantic overtures at her, and Leia—then only 18—smiles and plays the political game and says he’ll have to ask her father. Later on over dinner when the bastard threatens Bail over being a part of the rebellion she grabs the blaster out of his hand and kills him. She cries over it, it’s the first time she’s killed a real live person and not just a moving target, but she recovers quickly. Because their cover has been blown, and someone has to get the plans to the rebels. And it can’t be Bail.
It’s her. It has always been about her.
But instead we get the story of a young farm boy from the arse end of nowhere, gifted with special powers, being pulled up by fate and destiny to be a hero. And as much as I love Luke—let’s be real I adore him—I will forever be salty that Leia is perceived by many to be a Supporting Character, in her own god damn story.
It’s rather chilling to consider that one of the most indelible images in the Star Wars saga is its heroine silenced, stripped down, and in chains. I know a lot of men have positive feelings about this particular costume — in fact there’s an entire episode of the popular sitcom Friends that’s devoted to it — which is why it’s kind of hilariously ironic that Han Solo was blind during these scenes. That is, the one man who is romantically attached to Leia is the one man who never saw her in the golden bikini. Which means Han Solo is more attracted to a mouthy space age shield maiden than he is to a tight female body on display. In fact, if I could be so bold, I would suggest that Han Solo would be more turned on hearing about how Leia strangled Jabba the Hutt to death — using nothing but the chain that enslaved her — than he would be hearing about how his sworn enemy turned the woman he loved into a tawdry plaything.
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