I hope everyone gets the force for Christmas!
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (1977) dir. George Lucas
You have to admire her audacity, if nothing else.
Literally my favourite thing about Rogue One is that it makes the opening of New Hope so funny. Like, Vader has followed Leia from a planet he just blew up seconds ago and pursued her across the galaxy and then she’s just like: ‘I’m on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan’
Vader: You’re a rebel. I just had a fight with your entire rebel fleet and followed you here. Straight from the rebels. Of which you are a part
Leia: *dramatic gasp* rebel? Me??? I was just passing through. Diplomatically. Thought it was a five-space-ship pile-up or something going on there…
death star plans? on my alderaanian diplomatic mission? it’s more likely than you think
ok but this is like legitimate Canon Improvement because I’d always wondered why Vader was so wildly furious at the start of the movie like “rahhhhh bring me the passengers I WANT THEM ALIVE!!!!” and now I’m like
ohh yeah okay they literally JUST blew up Vader’s base, stole his sh!t, and took off while giving him the finger from the window
while giving him the finger from the window
IT GOT BETTER
It is the best thing ever because it establishes that he knows she’s a Rebel and she knows he knows she’s a Rebel and he knows she knows he knows she’s a Rebel and—here’s the kicker—every moment she stalls him is another moment Artoo has to get the plans off the ship and head for Kenobi, and so she’s standing there all “Rebellion? What Rebellion? Me? *kicks dead Stormtrooper underneath carpet* I don’t know about any plans, have you checked behind the sofa?” and making Darth Vader’s blood pressure rise, and, oh, the best part of it is that she’s his daughter so guess where she got that sass from, like every fucking dead blue Force Ghost Jedi who got killed at the birth of the Empire is whooping and cheering from the Blue Force Ghost Afterlife seeing Anakin Skywalker get inflicted with everything they had to deal with from him.
You just know that enough people’s dying thoughts were, “I hope you have one just like you,” for the force to go, “this bitch deserves twins.”
It got better.
hi, i know the odds are slim and easily googleable, but i’m asking this on an anniversary of her passing: did you ever meet or interact with Carrie Fisher? if not, is there anything you’d like to ask her?
I did. I met her properly in the White House in around 2007, and told her the story of how she'd inadvertently saved my life in 1987 by leaving a party early, and then I had a strange dinner at the Savoy Hotel with her and some mutual friends shortly before her death. She was larger than life, and really funny, and always seemed a little lost.
My fucking hero forever.
Forever my queen
“You’re a part of the Rebel Alliance… and a traitor. Take her away!”
Leia Organa - A Leader Named Leia, Illustration by Brian Rood
Carrie Fisher | 1980
Carrie Fisher in 1990
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds at the New York premiere of the Unsinkable Molly Brown musical, 1989. Photographed by Ron Galella.
“If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true. And that is completely unacceptable.”
— Carrie Fisher ✨
Carrie Fisher attends the opening of ‘Gilda Radner - Live From New York’ on August 2, 1979 at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City.
I have never seen these images before and I must say, I have a feeling many of my followers will have a fine appreciation of Carrie Fisher in a long-sleeved button down shirt and tie.
Reminder from space mom now taped to my kitchen cabinet above my medicine tray.
Deleted Scene from The Empire Strikes Back