Lit Leia's fate post-TLJ

Didn't Leia get so much hate in-universe from hiding that Vader was her father in Bloodline?

All Kylo has to do to break the New Resistance morale is announce that Leia is his mother.

To Leia: "The Supreme Leader of the First Order is your son, and you never told us? You never told us that the butcher of Hosnian Prime was your son? You knew this before he even destroyed Hosnian and never told us? Because with that knowledge, we might have been able to stop him!"

 

That’s a hard no for me. No one except Carrie should play Leia. It just does not seem right for anyone else to do it.

 

I was hoping at least SOMEONE would see things the same way as I do.
Ah, well... Looks like Leia's character arc will enver have a proper onscreen conclusion. That doesn't "seem right" either in my mind.

 

The ST is full of non-resolutions though. The Big 3 never meet again. Leia's arc of becoming a Jedi ("You'll learn the things I have" in ROTJ) is unfulfilled. "Pass on what you have learned" is unfulfilled by one very bad day that would have Mark Hamill's Joker bent over in laughter as the Killing Joke.

So, from my point of view having Leia's arc unfulfilled isn't an aberration in a saga of fulfilled arcs when the last 2 movies already have these unresolved arcs.

 

Some would say that Luke managed to pass on what he's learned through Rey... from a certain POV.

 

Leia's character arc has a gorgeous onscreen conclusion in The Last Jedi. She gets to be Moses, leading her children into the Promised Land. "We have everything we need."

 

I agree with you. IX deserves to have a heroic skywalker show up, not just one in ghost form.

 

They've already egregiously killed off most of the OT cast. I can't imagine them staying away from the last.

 

Perhaps the best way forward is to not kill Leia. She doesn’t really have to be in the film. She can show up as a hologram to let the audience know what’s she’s up to, but the film can focus solely on Rey, Kylo, Finn, Poe, and Zuvio.

A recasting would be an abomination, IMO. I really don’t think it would work at all.

 

Yeah, I'm in the tiny boat who doesn't think she should die. I think they're going to use CG on unused footage to give her a role the size she had in TFA. That shouldn't be hard to do. I think Carrie would be ****ed as hell if they killed her off screen.

 

Maybe she can sacrifice herself with some weird force ritual that simultaneously brings Luke back to life, going a long way to retroactively fix TLJ . . .

ah well one can hope

 

1. Leia doesn't have to be a Jedi to use the Force. That was the whole point of Luke's first lesson with Rey.

2. Luke did pass on what he had learned. That's the whole point of his scene with Yoda, and his sacrifice on Crait. "The greatest teacher failure is."

3. I don't know how you could call either Han or Luke's ST arcs unresolved. They have very concrete endings.

 

Exactly my thinking, @Jedi Princess. I've been wanting to ask this question for a while now but wasn't sure how to do so in a respectful way so I'll just throw it out there as a follow-on to this comment: in what way is Leia's story, for all intents and purposes, not complete? Maybe some sort of reckoning with Ben, but that's more his arc, his story, than hers. Would we all want to see Leia in Ep9, doing what she does best? Absolutely. But I'm not that convinced there's really any of her story left to tell, and particularly so after TLJ.

 

She dies off-screen just before Episode IX, which then opens with her funeral/memorial service, the perfect opportunity to bring in Lando and Wedge, and to set the lie of the land since The Last Jedi, establishing the new generation of heroes' roles in the Resistance/Rebellion.

 

I'd be curious if there is a difference in the camp of re-cast vs. don't re-cast that has an age gap? For my part, I'm a 70s baby and an 80s kid and would not for a moment want to have the role re-cast. What is driving that, some left over youthful crush mixed with Old Skool Saga loyalty; I frankly haven't worked that out yet but my answer is no.

 

Interesting thought Mr. Firesaber. I was born in the late 90's and I am very much in the yes camp.

 

Born in 91, Im in the recast camp.

 

They might as well go for broke on the horrifically bad front:
If you hadn't been so busy politicking, while shagging your bit of rough, maybe he wouldn't have turned out to be such a psycho.

 

I think any recasting would be an awful idea and any future adventures with Leia are toothless without Carrie Fisher.

 

Would I support it? Sure.

Do I demand or expect it? No.

 

Oh, I certainly don't expect it either. But I frankly don't want to see anything like that:
"Hey, Poe? Whatever happened to Leia? Is that what you asked? Her finale adventure is a tale that will probably never be allowed to be told... but it was a dilly!"

 

Born in 1974, which makes me an "old-timer" I suppose (though I like to look at it as "gaining perspective"), and...it's a tough one. I've heard some names tossed around that I've thought, yeah, they could pull it off. I'm not adamantly against recasting or anything, provided strong casting. But I'm increasingly of the view that, after TLJ, there's really no reason to. The baton was, more or less, passed. I don't know whether that puts me in the "pro" recast or "con" recast camp so I guess decide that one for yourself.

 

Honestly it would have probably been better if

Spoiler

Instead of Holdo crashing the cruiser into the FO fleet, it'd have been Leia and/or Adm. Ackbar (because WOW did he also get an insultingly throwaway death as well).

At least then she'd have gone out trying to DO something to save everyone else (which fits her character 100%).

 

To recast would be a distraction, I think. And, though I feel CGI necromancy is creepy even if it did look good, it's too soon.

If there's a significant time jump from TLJ to IX, just let Leia go with a line of dialogue. If there's not, address her absence and maybe close her chapter in another medium.

 

Yes, that annoyed me too. But I suppose it all boils down to the fact that the character you're talking about was big in the EU. An EU that no longer exists. It's like Wedge, in fact. He's become yet another secondary, if not tertiary character from the OT, not the huge star he was in "our" Star Wars.