How is it ever explained...
that Leia had memories of her mother? When we later learn in the Anakin trilogy that their mother died in childbirth, how could Leia remember her?
shareFor the same reason that Luke could become a full-blown Jedi with two days training under Jedi masters, when all the other Jedi had to stay Padmawans for about twenty years.
shareIt is believed by some hardcore fans that after the events of Empire Strikes Back, before the events of the beginning of Return of the Jedi, Luke went back to Yoda and got more training from him.
shareI've also read that the Falcon could have been en route to Bespin for weeks or even months. Remember that the hyperdrive was broken so they were moving at sublight speeds in a very large galaxy.
shareYes, its be nice to think that Luke had enough time on Dagobah to get some proper training, and I like to presume he did, but that is speculation and not canon. What IS canon is that Luke arrived on Bespin shortly after Han and Leia... and Han and Leia NEVER changed their clothes while they were fleeing in the falcon!! So their broken-hyperdrive time must have been of short duration, because Han had to have some spare clothes on the Falcon, and they were not used.
So there we have it, its actually canon that it's possible to learn Jedi skills in a very short period of time, even though the old Jedi used to apprentice for decades. I dont think thats what Lucas intended precisely, but that is what ended up in the finished films.
I think your estimation of the elapsed time is just as much speculation as mine.
shareOh yes, but I'm trying to back up my speculation with canonical evidence! (Or "evidence".)
shareIt isn't speculation on Otter's part. He's going with what is shown in the film. Luke wakes up one morning with zero knowledge of The Force, but before bed that same night he's mastered it enough to the point where he can destroy the Death Star with a single shot. You can imagine that maybe a lot of things happened offscreen, and there was a lot of downtime we never saw, but the film is shot and edited to convey the notion that this all happened in about 12 hours, give or take.
shareWe were talking about Luke's training in ESB, not ANH, and I still stand by my position. The only real fact here is that there was never an explicit, on-screen explanation, so it's all speculation.
shareNot only did Leia change her clothes, she changed her hairstyle too.
Han didn't change his clothes but he never does in the entire series.
Leia changed her clothes and hair when she got to Bespin, but not while they were running and hiding with no hyperdrive.
Now of course we don't know how long they were held prisoner on Bespin, but it wasn't long enough for Leia's hair and makeup to suffer.
Leia didn't exactly have a chance to take her luggage when the Empire came straight to the Rebel base. She likely only had the clothes on her back and nothing else when she got to the Falcon and had to run for her life.
As for her hair and makeup not suffering, that's pretty common in film.
Her hair and makeup didn't suffer when she was held prisoner on the Death Star either. She may have been using her innate Force powers for that, because... how else?
As for the harum-scarum time of indeterminate length of the Falcon, well, if it really was all that long, then I'm sure she could have changed into some of Han's clothes, and looked very fetching with rolled-up pants and a man's shirt wrapped around her waist. IF, that is, Han actually had spare clothes, and wasn't really wearing the same outfit for the whole saga.
The thing about her hair and makeup can be applied to nearly every movie ever made. Hollywood wanted their women looking hot at all times back then (ever hear Carrie's take on the metal bikini from ROTJ?). If it helps, I don't think the torture sessions lasted for more than a day or so.
And I'm not sure Han had much in the way of spare clothes and Leia isn't the sort to care too much about looking "fetching". She's a badass military leader, not some spoiled rich girl. She's not gonna worry about dolling herself up when she has to repair the Falcon and avoid getting captured/killed by the Empire in the process, to say nothing of the various creatures and monsters that always show up to try to eat the heroes.
IMHO Leia is one of those women who seems not to care about her looks and would deny caring about her looks if asked and who are never seen putting any visible effort into their looks... yet who always look absolutely stunning. I don't know how they do it, but I suspect they just do all their primping and polishing where nobody can see.
And yes, that's true of most Hollywood leading ladies, yet most of those who face abuse and torture at least take the trouble to put on a lighter shade of lipstick and muss their hair a little. Not Leia!
As for Han's clothes... we can only speculate wildly. Maybe he's got a whole wardrobe full of identical outfits, maybe his clothes are made of some magical space-age sweat-repelling material. It's an eternal unanswered mystery.
Lol it's Canon in your own head.
Plus it might be possible to be taught, but not invent techniques you never knew existed ... In 2 hours.
No, really, review the original films, and see how much teaching Luke was actually shown to get before he started going around calling himself a Jedi. It's minimal, a few hours on the Falcon trip to Alderaan, and however much time he spent on Dagobah. We even see him go back to Dagobah intending to get more training, and finding Yoda dying.
As for a person inventing Force techniques without being taught... I would actually expect that to happen. Routinely.
Of course this is pure speculation, but I would absolutely expect that if some random young person realized they had superpowers, they would immediately try to use them for petty selfish ends - reading the test answers in the teacher's mind, changing the TV channel with your mind, using your power over weak minds to get dates, settling grudges, etc. A person with these powers would try to use the powers for getting what they wanted, whatever that is, and if they had no training they'd try on their own. And IMHO that's probably why the Jedi got their conscripts painfully young and spent 20 years drumming ethics into their heads.
How do you know that Han and Lei never changed their clothes on the trip from Hoth to Bespin?
Suppose that you see a soldier wearing their uniform in one scene in a movie, and the the same soldier wearing what appears to be the same uniform in another scene in the movie, would you assume that the soldier wore the same uniform continuously for the entire period between the two scenes, and then try to deduce the maximum period that the soldier could have worn the same uniform without changing?
Or would you suppose that the soldier had several identical uniforms in his closet as well as pajamas, and wore several different uniforms and possibly washed them from time to time, and thus that the soldier's uniform was not a good indication of how land a time had passed during the period between the two scenes?
Han usually lived in the Millennium Falcon. It is quite possible he had a number of sets of clothing stored in it. And possibly Han may have had some unique sets of clothing and several identical sets of clothing. I, for example, have two each of several identical items of clothing.
I don't think Leia brought any luggage aboard the Millennium Falcon. But possibly Leia locked herself in the laundry room, got undressed, washed and dried all her clothing, got dressed, and left the laundry room, several times during the voyage.
Furthermore, countless millions and billions of persons in history have normally worn the same clothes straight without changing or washing them for months at a time.