Author Topic: Leia's Personality Change
jed-eye  486 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 5:16am Subject: Leia's Personality Change
In ANH and in ESB Leia was very feisty and snarky. I loved that she seemed in control and wasn’t afraid to insult the other characters. But in ROTJ she suddenly seemed… different. She was behaving more like her boring-ass mother.

 

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arwen_sith  1047 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 5:21am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
Oh, I don't know about that. She still rocked on Endor. There wasn't as much repartee between her and Han as in the two other movies, but perhaps that's just because she was coming to terms with the fact that they were in love. She nearly lost him when he was frozen in carbonite, after all.

 

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jed-eye  486 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 5:29am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
I guess i understand why she's nice to Han. Their dynamic changed but still. In ANH and ESB she wa able to insult most of the character: Tarkin, Vader, Luke, Han, Chewie, The Falcon... I missed that character trait of hers in ROTJ.

 

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arwen_sith  1047 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 5:47am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
I understand what you mean. Still, her character change bothers me less than Padmé's in ROTS.

 

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angel_of_the_force  785 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 6:50am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
i think it was reasonably fiesty when she killed jabba with the chains and talked to him like a b#&%$

 

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jed-eye  486 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 7:33am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
What? She was silent during her captivity as Jabba's slave. What did she say to him?

Okay, it was cool that she got to kill Jabba though.

 

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EBSaints  10064 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 7:37am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
It's 'cause Carrie Fisher was coked up during Jedi.

 

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jed-eye  486 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 7:42am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
Heh! I got the impression that she was coked up for the entire trilogy! I think someone said that she was high in the Christmas Sspecial.

Still, Carrie did a pretty good job in the OT for someone who was high half of the time.

 

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EBSaints  10064 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 7:46am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
She was at her worse time in Jedi.

 

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Golden_Jedi  3830 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 8:22am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
Maybe she (Leia) did grow up?

 

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Atticus  2541 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 9:51am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
I had more of a problem with Han in ROTJ but I do see your point. Infact the only character that I seem to like in this one is Luke(out of the main 3 anyways). I think Mark was the only one that treid to actually act, unlike Carrie and Harrison.

 

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Moleman1138  12253 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 10:29am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
ANH - arrogant princess
ESB - more of a leader, breaking down her walls around her at the end
ROTJ - committed to Han, more worldly and accepting.

 

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Circle_Is_Complete  884 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 11:00am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
I agree that maybe her character grew up and matured.It is natural to, as we get older calm down a bit and learn tearing people down isnt always effective or healthy. She was still a strong women in many ways in ROTJ. She still faught she just wasnt as vocal about it.

 

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LukeGroundwalker  723 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 11:09am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
Leia was always a leader the only reason she acted arrogant in ANH is because she was not used to Luke, Chewie, and Han. In ESB she got used to them and she was in a position as a leader. In ROTJ she was the same self but she was more commited to Han.

 

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mynameismyown  895 posts
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Date Posted: 6/14/05 11:46am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change - Date Edited: 6/14/05 11:47am (1 edits total) Edited By: mynameismyown
yeah leia was softened and so was padme too for goodness sake. she was the queen of a planet and in ep 3 she was a whimpering idiot to a younger anakin

 

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Golden_Jedi  3830 posts
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Date Posted: 6/15/05 8:44am Subject: RE: Leia's Personality Change
Short answer: women in love become stupid.
No, really. I think she had about a year to grieve, always thinking that Jabba could defrost and kill Han any minute.

 

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