General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to convey my father’s request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I’m afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
CAN I BE META ABOUT LEIA FOR A MOMENT. BECAUSE BEFORE SHE WAS IN A METAL BIKINI, BEFORE SHE WAS DEMOTED TO REPRESENTING ICON FOR THE WORST OF FANBOYS, SHE WAS THIS AMAZING CHICK WHO SENDS HER ONLY HOPE TO OBI WAN, AND THAT LAST LINE? YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE? SHE HAS NO HOPE FOR HER LIFE. SHE HAS 0 HOPE FOR HER OWN FUTURE. SHE IS SAYING THAT OBI WAN IS HER LAST HOPE TO TAKE DOWN THE EMPIRE. THAT IS HER MISSION, AND SHE IS WILLING TO SACRIFICE HER OWN LIFE FOR IT. I HAVE TOO MANY LEIA THE AWESOME SPY/PRINCESS FEELINGS.
But Leia in a metal bikini was just as kickass as she was fleeing from the Empire. I mean, she’s chained to a disgusting gangster slug who is perving on her, her best friend and her boyfriend are about to be killed, she doesn’t know if their escape plan is going to work, AND SHE’S STILL FIGHTING BACK. SHE STRANGLES JABBA WITH HER OWN CHAIN. And not just a little strangling, either; she makes sure that fucker is dead.
Even in a metal bikini, Leia is more badass than 99.9% of the galaxy.
What is that ‘before she was demoted?’ She spent a little time in the bikini, and then she turned up back to work the next day in guerrilla warfare forest camo, and proceeded to get into a 1000 mph speed-bike dogfight, put her badass diplomat skills to work by befriending a potentially hostile native culture, and get shot in battle and brush it off. “It’s not bad. Deal with the damn door like we came here to do.”
All while dealing with the suddenly revealed fact that the 2nd most evil being in the galaxy turned out to be her father, might I add, and that if Luke fucked up it’d be on her to go mano a mano with the Emperor herself.
And she just carried on. She was like, “Well, then, bro, don’t fuck up, but if it comes to that I have been prepared to die putting a blaster bolt through the evil old prune’s eye since I was 12.”
One of my favorite things about these movies is how, from the time he meets her, Luke is like, “Whoa, I want to be like HER.” Because from start to end of the trilogy, Leia is everything he ever dreamed of being: the courageous, unstoppable freedom fighter, who’s looked Darth Vader and a Grand Moff in the face and spat on them, and gunned her way out of a prison bloc after torture in order to save them all from the Death Star. She’s not just a member of the Rebellion like he wanted to be. She’s one of the LEADERS of it. Han butts heads with her when they first break out because she’s the other alpha in the room. When Luke talks to her about facing Vader in Jedi, he’s struggling with his own ability to do it, but he doesn’t for a second doubt that she could.
It is not demoting a woman when somebody else attempts to aggressively sexualize her and she doesn’t let that stop her. I consider that the fan-service that is due a hero of her caliber.
(Too bad they didn’t have Han’s shirt off while they were making him scream in Empire, though. Then we’d be even.)
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