10 Star Wars Scenes George Lucas Hated

1. The Kissing Siblings - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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This is partly educated guesswork here, but one has to think that George Lucas really isn't keen on the scene where Luke and Leia share a kiss in The Empire Strikes Back.

Of course, Return of the Jedi would reveal that Luke and Leia were actually siblings. Not just siblings, mind, for the two would be twins. Neither character was aware of this at the time of Empire's smooch, and likewise neither was Lucas.

As detailed in Laurent Bouzereau's Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, the original plan was oh so very different where these Skywalker siblings were concerned. Originally, Lucas had zero plans to have Luke and Leia be brother and sister, and instead the pair were intended to be two parts of a love triangle involving Han Solo.

When Yoda spouts "there is another" in The Empire Strikes Back, that was in reference to Luke's sister, but this sister was not Leia and was a character who Lucas intended to introduce in his planned sequel trilogy. It was only when he got to Return of the Jedi that George decided to combine Leia and this mystery sister.

In hindsight, surely George Lucas must look back on Empire's big kiss scene and slap his head in regret? After all, incest is never cool, kids. Not even in a galaxy far, far away.

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