OH GOD. When I heard she was "losing the will to live," I very nearly yelled out in the cinema, "SO AM I!"
::DIES LAUGHING:
Or, my preferred one, Yoda says of the Force that it will grant you visions of "old friends, long gone." I kind of like the idea of Leia's latent Force abilities manifesting themselves in dreamlike Force visions of her mother. Which, as she grew older, she began to confuse with memories.
Get out of my head, woman! I just said the same thing! Only snarkier. ;)
ETA: And the frustrating thing is had Padme not died in child birth Lucas would not have, yet again, screwed up continuity AND we would have had a more satisfying ending for Padme. She has to make the heartbreaking choice to separate her children because she knows it's the best way to protect them. She then takes Leia and goes to Alderaan, living under the protection of the Organa's. Several years later she becomes ill and, I'll give Lucas this, because of her sadness and heartache she doesn't seek medical treatment and dies before her time. Meanwhile, Anakin believes she and the child she was carrying died and thus turns to the darkside. It would have worked! And been better!
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::DIES LAUGHING:
Or, my preferred one, Yoda says of the Force that it will grant you visions of "old friends, long gone." I kind of like the idea of Leia's latent Force abilities manifesting themselves in dreamlike Force visions of her mother. Which, as she grew older, she began to confuse with memories.
Get out of my head, woman! I just said the same thing! Only snarkier. ;)
ETA: And the frustrating thing is had Padme not died in child birth Lucas would not have, yet again, screwed up continuity AND we would have had a more satisfying ending for Padme. She has to make the heartbreaking choice to separate her children because she knows it's the best way to protect them. She then takes Leia and goes to Alderaan, living under the protection of the Organa's. Several years later she becomes ill and, I'll give Lucas this, because of her sadness and heartache she doesn't seek medical treatment and dies before her time. Meanwhile, Anakin believes she and the child she was carrying died and thus turns to the darkside. It would have worked! And been better!