Star Wars: A New Hope, by George Lucas

I don't think I need to introduce what Star Wars is, everybody knows it. But, here it goes: Star Wars: A New Hope is the 1977 movie by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill (the future voice of The Joker) as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa and Harrison Ford (the future Indiana Jones) as Han Solo. It's the first of the many installments of the Star Wars saga.

Until recently, I had never watched the movies, but I knew the basics. Luke Skywalker has to fight Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers that can't shoot, Princess Leia uses a golden bikini and there's some bears and robots. Oh, and there's incest in it.

I'll be honest, for a long time, I had no idea Luke and Leia were siblings. I knew he was Darth Vader's son, but since Leia was a princess, I didn't think she was related to him at all, specially because he's The Male Lead and she's The Female Lead, so they must be a romantic pairing. I learned they ere siblings from my mom, who had watched the original trilogy (although she said that if she had been Leia, she would have picked Luke over Han because Mark Hamill is hotter in her opinion).

And, even thought I had no intention of watching these movies (I was raised in a tradicional Trekkie household that still upholds the war between Star Wars and Star Trek), I always found it quite fascinating that George Lucas would have Luke and Leia kiss only to reveal them to be siblings. SPECIALLY BECAUSE I WAS TOLD BY MY BOYFRIEND THAT GEORGE LUCAS WAS A 'MASTERMIND' AND 'HAD IT ALL PLANNED FROM THE BEGINNING'. Well, that's a LIE. He didn't. Lucas didn't intend to make Leia and Luke siblings, as he says in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays. This means that Luke and Leia's flirts and kisses were retroactively made incestuous and the original plans didn't involve making such a shippable pair of twins. The decision to make them be siblings was made after all that sexual tension was shown in screen, which is a interesting choice.