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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 7691758"><p>I just want to clarify my point here. All three are glossed over as I would expect them to be in a movie like this. I wasn't saying that the kiss needed to be addressed. They handled all those things just fine. But the glossing isn't equal in my view. The tragedies both get acknowledgement, I would argue movingly given the space they were working within. The kiss was never really acknowledged in light of the brother-sister revelation. This is why it stands out more to me. When I watched Star Wars for the first time, it never struck me as odd that they didn't spend more time dwelling on his family dying or on Alderaan being blown up. However when I found out Luke and Leia were Brother and Sister, the kissing scene always stood out as unusual. Again, it isn't a big deal. This is soap opera in space. But if someone is going to argue that the Force Awakens is bad because it wasn't as perfect as the original trilogy, I think things like the kiss, like R2-D2 rolling easily over sand dunes on wheels that are inferior to the ones on my swivel chair, like Han never finding a way to get the money to Jabba before he gets frozen, like storm troopers never hitting anything but Leia's shoulder despite being 'so precise' with blasters, are all worth pointing to to remind people the first movies were not perfect and they were basically making them up as they went (and they worked beautifully). But sure, if you feel those tragedies were also odd bumps in the movies, then I'd just add them to the list of things as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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