There's a rare quiet and bittersweet moment in Return Of The Jedi between Luke and Leia, where Luke asks Leia what her mother was like, and it's a really loaded moment, with one person trying to broach a theory and live vicariously, while the other is recalling a place they can never go back to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYX_PgorRY In the Prequel Trilogy, Lucas didn't even try to honour that moment, sticking instead to his original idea that Anakin's love had to die immediately to help his progression to the Dark Side on. Even though it made Leia look like either a liar or a fantasist. Someone who put as much time and effort into generating an entire universe such as Lucas could have a specific explanation for every choice, with the ultimate goal to preserve the 'reality' of said universe and to make choices that work for the characters in the moment, but there are so many times in the prequels where that sort of fidelity to his original ideas undercut great emotional moments in the chronologically later films. It's almost forgivable, though, in comparison to George Lucas' most famous moment of cultural amnesia...
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