Prequel Beru doesn't have any of that strength, because she isn't being allowed to do anything. And Leia does go domestic as the OT trundles on. She doesn't have to be "male", she just has to be herself. And she gets side-lined into being a love interest. No one cares that she too is the spawn of evil and presumably has, like, the Force. Padme comes off better simply because the prequels were written at a later date.
Leia's funky in that first film, but by RotJ she's a lot less kick-ass. It's not so much a "character arc" as Lucas not knowing what to do with her.
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Date: 2003-12-01 01:14 pm (UTC)Leia's funky in that first film, but by RotJ she's a lot less kick-ass. It's not so much a "character arc" as Lucas not knowing what to do with her.