re: Watching Empire Strikes Back last night

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I'll probably get downvoted and corrected to oblivion by people who know more about the production than I, but the Luke-Leia angle in both ANH and at the beginning of ESB tells me that Lucas didn't have the story fleshed out and forced in the bit about Leia being Luke's sister late in the game while either writing or shooting ESB.

In ANH, Luke had a huge crush on Leia, talked about how beautiful she was, and obsessed over rescuing her. Even as they're escaping from the Death Star after the rescue, Han makes a comment about the possibility of a "girl like that and a guy like me" and Luke sort of jealously shoots it down.

When you take that into account with the kiss at the beginning of ESB, I feel like Lucas had an "aha!" moment during the late states of the production of ESB - too late to reshoot that scene - and forced it in.

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