Leia goes 'domestic'? When? Did I miss more SW? You might as well say that Han gets sidelined into being Leia's love interest. He softens more than Leia does. She's still perfectly able to look after herself in RotJ. She goes into Jabba's to rescue Han, strangles Jabba with her chain (while wearing the bikini which wasn't designed for comfort, to say the least). Then, in the Endor sequence, she does that speeder chase (covering Han's mistake, btw), and takes out a couple of troopers despite being knocked out. At the bunker she fights along with the men, and saves Han's life as well as her own (or at least saves them from capture) by shooting those two stormtroopers at the bunker. (She's the best shot in the OT, anyway. She only misses once, and even then she gets it on the next shot). She's less mouthy, certainly, but even in ANH she's sweet to Luke. She's still qintessentially Leia just as much as when she's yelling 'I am not a committee!' or blasting Imperials.
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Date: 2003-12-02 06:17 am (UTC)You might as well say that Han gets sidelined into being Leia's love interest. He softens more than Leia does.
She's still perfectly able to look after herself in RotJ. She goes into Jabba's to rescue Han, strangles Jabba with her chain (while wearing the bikini which wasn't designed for comfort, to say the least). Then, in the Endor sequence, she does that speeder chase (covering Han's mistake, btw), and takes out a couple of troopers despite being knocked out. At the bunker she fights along with the men, and saves Han's life as well as her own (or at least saves them from capture) by shooting those two stormtroopers at the bunker. (She's the best shot in the OT, anyway. She only misses once, and even then she gets it on the next shot).
She's less mouthy, certainly, but even in ANH she's sweet to Luke. She's still qintessentially Leia just as much as when she's yelling 'I am not a committee!' or blasting Imperials.
As for the Force and destiny business, the out-of-universe explanation is that she wasn't the spawn of evil until Lucas was writing the RotJ script. In universe...it's possible that Obi-Wan at least didn't know about her. Who knows what Padmé has up her fancy sleeve in Ep III? And, personality-wise, she's more like Anakin than Luke turns out to be. She's easily angered, and doesn't forgive easily. Can you say Dark side?