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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 7690571">But telling a story by the seat of your pants can lead to inconsistency and I think that is the outcome with the Luke-Leia sibling relationship reveal. In RotJ they just kind of gloss over the fact that Luke and Leia kissed. To me that is a big consistency issue, because it is pretty clear we were going one direction, went another, and something happened that really stands out as a result. So it is this thing in the plot that both creates 1) a consistency issue and 2) makes you realize they were building as they went (at least when it came to that reveal). It creates an inconsistency because it is as if the audience is supposed to pretend that never happened. I think it was the right storytelling direction to go, but it would have been more consistent if they hadn't kissed. Again, it isn't the end of the world. It doesn't really harm the film in my view (it is just an oddity of it). My point is, if you can handle luke and leia kissing them being revealed as brother and sister, you can probably handle any hand wavy thing they introduce in The Force Awakens.So I think the Luke-Leia aspect of the story definitely isn't air tight. If it were air tight, they wouldn't have kissed or the kiss would have been folded into the film somehow to make it consistent (i.e. they address it in RotJ in some way). But since neither of these things really happens, the impression I've always had is we are meant to pretend the kiss either didn't happen or it blow it off as being barely a peck on the lips (which given the depth of the kiss, is just impossible to do). I love star wars. I don't really care that much about this aspect of it. But it stands out and it is definitely not air tight storytelling when it comes to the Luke Leia Kiss and sibling relationship.And again, my point isn't to say the film is awful because of that bit of inconsistency. I'm just trying to point out that Star Wars has always been on the soap opera end of things and it isn't the kind of storyline I would refer to as having a long history of being air tight.</blockquote>

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