Writing process babblings

[auronlu]

I haven't ever joined NaNoMo, because I've never had the time and immediately explode when I have deadlines. However, I've been pecking at writing again in November. It's as difficult as ever- how I miss being a young, naive writer who never saw my flaws, who just wrote for writing's sake- but at least it's happening. Unfortunately, the mundane

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[auronlu]

Oh, no, I'm getting mixed up; it's still "there is another" in Empire. I assume by the time Lucas wrote that line (which I swore up and down was "there is no other" when I first saw the film, causing many a heated discussion) he must have had the Luke & Leia relationship worked out.

More importantly, in Empire, there's the escape from Cloud City sequence when Leia's Lassie Telepathy (tm) makes her receptive to Luke's distress call. The excuse for that could simply be her own latent talent with the Force, Force, as implied by Yoda's comment above. However, I had the impression that there was another reason: both she and Vader were sensing Luke partly because of their blood relationship. (I haven't seen it in a while, but I vaguely remember Vader calling to Luke from afar, and Luke hearing it).

Although it's never quite held together: if Vader was receptive enough to pick up on Luke being his son, why, why, why didn't he sense anything special about Leia when she was his captive? The amount of lip she gave him at their first encounter surely should have reminded him of her mother; Ep I mother before she turned into a sack of grits in Ep II*

*Incidentally, am I the only person who thinks Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman should've been switched, with Knightley playing the "real" Padme and Portman her double? Watching the first film, I had the odd feeling that Padme became meeker and weaker on Tatooine, then had a few strong moments back on Naboo, then went back to being a little flat. A few months later, I realized that all the "Wow, Amidallah kicks ass!" scenes in Ep I were actually played by Knightley, acting as the queen's double. Look at Elizabeth Swann: Knightley has a knack for playing feminine characters with a steel backbone. Although I'm not sure Knightley would've helped in the second and third films; Luca really doesn't know how to maintain strong female characters.