Sorry if this has been mentioned before but this always rubbed me the wrong way. Leia lives a lavish lifestyle as a pampered princess and Luke has to work his butt off as a farmhand. What the hell?
Any explanation as to why there is such a big disparity in the way they were raised?
What the hell do Obi-Wan and Yoda know about raising kids? They're celibate Jedi!
shareIn A New Hope they weren't siblings yet. They didn't add that until later in the other movies. So, it was originally meant to be the peasant boy and the princess who might end up together.
shareNo explanation means plot hole to me
shareWell if you go by the sequel Return of the Jedi, they had to be separated at birth to protect them both from the Emperor and Darth Vader.
shareYes it means that Star Wars was and always has been woefully underwritten. They just make it up as they go along.
The adoption of Luke and Leia by Owen Lars and Bail Organa wasn't exactly a carefully thought out plan. These were on the fly and last minute decisions under very stressful condition. Order 66 and the rise of Darth Vader happened so fast that Obi Wan handed them off to people whom he thought would be trustworthy and he knew personally. Lars and Organa were the people he chose. In a way, Luke had it better due to the fact that the Tatooine and his family were much more out of the way and obscure than were the planet Alderaan and Leia's family. Her true parentage stood a better chance of being discovered due to her and her families much higher profile than Luke. Again, though, Kenobi was doing the best he could under unexpected and difficult circumstances.
shareI can't do 'in story.' 45 years of tampering, rewriting, changing just leaves to many questions for everything. film making wise, they were not related at this time. It was the classic hero's journey where the farm boy saves the princess. nothing more.
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