Recent News From EP3 Set *Spoilers*

haven't heard of that "fact" either...

Yeah, we really need a link with a big confirmation like this.

Maybe that quote of Leia's was never supposed to be taken literally. Up until that moment she probably thought Bail was her father too. Luke might have just meant do you remember your mother figure?
But I was never sure she meant her real mother. It could have just been a foster parent. Maybe its one of Padme's hand maidens, or even Padme's sister since she'll actually be in the final cut this time.
OR maybe Padme DOES die, but Anakin learns to "stop people from dying" and brings her back. Cheesy yes, but possible in a world of gunguns and ewoks. That happened in a batman mini series called last laugh a year or two back, DC comics swore up and down that joker would die, and he did after Nightwing beat his head in, then Batman does CPR and gets him back so Nightwing wouldn't be a killer. Dumb but, thats hype for you.
remember how McCallum said there'd be pod racing in Clones? Yeah, on a screen in the back of a bar for five seconds. So maybe she's clinicly dead and Anakin saves her. That would definitely be a show of power. it was cool when neo did it in matrix2. Hopefully Lucas has a more original twist up his sleeve. Weren't we promised some major twists?

No, she knew that she had a true mother, and she knew that Bail Organa was her adpotive father.

as lance said; it's quiet clear she was talking about her REAL mother!

"Do you remember your mother? your REAL mother?"

Absolutely, that was made VERY clear.

I'm still wondering how it's going to be pulled off.

Somehow Gl is going to have to tell her part of the story but still make it to where Leia can remember...

Lance, how do we know for sure? If its not in the movies, and as we've seen with Boba Fett's origin taking a dramatic change from EU stories, can we trust it? We have no indication (in the films) she knew she was adopted, do we? GL will change anything outside the movies without hesitation. That line does imply she knew, but nothiing concrete. Of course we want it to mean that, but look at how many other things we thought we knew have changed. And he did promise big twists. Bottom line, we really don't know what he's going to flip on us and what will be what we expect. What we expect isn't always what he'll write.

EU means that you can't trust it since it's not canon! so Fett's origin was never known in the first place!

Exactly my point. On what are we basing that Leia knows who her mother was exactly? that line IMPLIES, it isn't fact until we get all the information.

Because you don;t put a line like that in a film if you don't mean it.

That's hardly a convincing arguement. 😄
i hope you are right, I'm just trying to make sense of the situation with the info we all have. Unless he just does another "the force works in mysterious ways" answer, like how Anakin manage to "accidentaly" destroy that TF battleship in PM, and claims she somehow can remember things because she's a jedi child or something, there's no way she remembers Padme. This is probably gonna be one of the bigger of the big surprises.

Actually, yes it IS a convincing argument. Films are not real life. If a character says "Do you remember your real mother" and the question is answered, this is direct information being given to the audience, unless you think GL was being deliberately deceptive which is highly unlikely.

But I still think that if this rumour IS true there will be no explanation offered.

I truly wish this would be one of the loose ends that he addresses though, he can't just switch it out to where the original line means nothing.

please! he's always deceptive. look at how obi-wan handles the whole Anakin/Vader thing with Luke. Its part of the fun of storytelling, screwing with the audience! We just don't know what Leia's life was supposed to be like growing up. We don't know what she was told about her real parents, if anything, we don't know what they concealed from her, what was slightly tweeked in that wonderful kenobi-esque way.
I hope he does explain this. It hurts my head!
If she does in fact die, and no explaination is given, then I suppose we are to think she's refering to her adoptive mother. but, we are supposed to see the twins being hidden right? Shouldn't the explaination be somewhere in there?

Nonsense. He was putting closure at the end of a story- that line was factual. To claim just because he did the Vader trick means we cannot trust info being provided to the audience is ridiculous. The whole sequence is CLEARLY factual.

how?

Because, as I say, it was being provided as direct factual information to the audience at the conclusion of the story. You simply do not doubt anything like that without a very good reason. This is how films give information- they are not like books, they cannot do it in narrative.

but why does that mean we can deduce leia knew her mother with out anything other than luke saying "your real mother". maybe to leia that was her real mother (whoever it was). If the prequels were never made, I'd whole heartingly agree with you. But you can't judge these films on average standards, he's doing something relatively new here. meaning some rules are thrown out the window. plus he is kinda working out the details as he goes along. I mean, for the longest time, on the star wars timeline he had ep3 as 20 years before ANH but said he'd put the twins birth in it. Then he must have realized the math error and set it to 18yrs before ANH. Because now all the timelines have it at 18yrs. Now, I'm not saying this means anything. I'm simply saying, as far as film is concerned, this is new territory. So average rules don't always apply.

it's still 20
tpm was 32 years before ANH
AOTC was ten years later : 22 years before ANH
EpIII is two years later : 20 years before ANH

and the entire scene there was about Luke not handling the truth well about his father and sister, then it's rediculous that if he asks about her real mother (he stressed the real-part) that she talks about her adoptive mother!