CT Things you never noticed in the CT.

I was always confused by the ANH opening crawl which states, “Princess Leia races home…” races HOME?! Isn’t her home Alderaan? When the crawl is finished and the movie begins we see her racing towards TATOOINE…only just now did I realize Tatooine is her true home….of course.

 

Isnt her mission to take Ben Kenobi from Tatooine to Alderaan?!

 

Yeah, I think Tatooine is just a quick detour and pick up on her way home to Alderaan from Scarif.

 

Before Rogue One flushed it out a bit more at the end of the film, she was looking to get help from Obi-Wan, then head to Alderaan. At least that's how I saw it. Alderaan was safe at the time---safety in numbers and the Empire wouldn't dare do anything until.....

 

Yeah I know, the crawls aren’t always accurate but it’s still a cool little bit of symbolism. It is technically her true home, where her brother and fathers step brother are. I know it wasn’t intended as such but looking back especially after the ending of rise of Skywalker where force ghost Luke and Leia appear at the Lars farm, it’s rather beautiful…

 

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call Tatooine her home when as far as we know she’s literally never even been to the planet before. Also, when aren’t the crawls accurate?

 

I think what @StartCenterEnd means its a symbol of her home because her father came from there and her brother is raised there. You can call Tatooine and Naboo Leias Origin Planets

 

I don’t see how Luke living there has anything to do with it. I can sorta see the case based off Anakin if you really want it to be there but it doesn’t feel like a natural use of the word “home” to me when applied to his daughter because
1)He had stopped living there long before she was born.
2)He was a slave the whole time he lived there so it’s not like it holds some special nostalgic place in his heart.
3)There’s no clear indication that Tatooine is the ancestral home of the Skywalkers, or even that he himself was born there.

 

You dont neet to get passive agressive on me. I was just making a assumption on what somebody else posted. He didnt mean her literal home anyway. No need for getting so excited...

 

Nothing about my post was “passive aggressive” or “excited”. I understand we’re not talking about her literal home, that’s obviously Alderaan, but I still don’t think Tatooine qualifies as Leia’s figurative home either so I simply explained why I have that opinion.

 

It seems very plausible to me that back in the OT era Lucas might have intended Leia to become queen of an Alderaanian refugee population on Tatooine at one point.

 

Out of all the planets you could establish a refugee colony on, why pick a place as awful as Tatooine? It's almost as bad as New Jersey.

 

Because nobody owns it except some Hutts who Leia evidently doesn't mind killing with extreme prejudice. (And who would want to anyways?)

 

Vader was most likely willing to give up Luke. After all, he'd given up his whole life, and his wife. Heck, he was quick to say he'd replace Lukey with Leia!

 

Realized this years ago: everyone focuses on the "no, I am you father!" part of Vader's speech in ESB but to me the most important and shocking part is the line "Luke you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny!" And like all visions of the future it happens but not quite in the way expected.

 

Watching the SE of ROTJ last night I noticed Vader's TIE is in the hangar when his shuttle lands, I assumed it was a TIE Interceptor...

 

It might also be a TIE bomber, which has the same sort of wing shape.

 

Or a TIE boarding craft/shuttle as there's no bomb shute.

 

Not exactly the OT, but it is from that era; I just noticed that in the Star Wars episode of the Muppet Show, Chewbacca isn't wearing his bandolier. That makes it the first nude appearance of an alien species, in television history!

 

I have to ask this because this has baffled me. A while back looking at different trailers for TESB I noticed something that I did not realize and people haven't really talked about it. There are two to three trailers that show the Imperial Walkers in the Battle of Hoth firing blue lasers. Has anyone seen this and was this suppose to happen? I don't know of any articles that covers this.

 

In the film they fire red lasers, don't they? It might have been changed for visibility reasons, so they would stand out against the blue-sky backdrops of the walker scenes.

 

Trailers often have stuff in them that's different in the final film

 

Probably just an effects flub. That stuffs just drawn on after the fact. Maybe someone put blue in as a place holder until the effects could be finished, but someone else grabbed that footage for the trailer before it was finished.

Or... could just be an issue with the color timing. On my old VHS tapes some of the TIE Fighter laser shots in ROTJ are blue and some of the X-Wing lasers are yellowish orange.

 

I've often wondered how much of that was true and how much of it Vader fudged as hyped-up incentive to entice Luke into joining him.

Any Sith Lord worth his salt knows to manipulate a would-be apprentice by promising him the thing he wants most. And in this case even Vader seems to be implying that only together would it come to pass. (Which was true).

If the line is completely true, I do like how it came in the way Palpatine least expected.

 

The only other evidence is the Emperor and Vader's chat:
(From the old version bc I forget the exact wording of the new scene)
Palps- We have a new enemy Luke Skywalker
Vader- Yes my master
Palps- He could destroy us
Vader- He's just a boy. Obi-wan can no longer help him
Palps- The Force is strong with him

Maybe Palpatine didn't specifically foresee Luke killing him but he def thinks it's possible. Either way he's afraid and it takes a lot to worry a Sith Lord.