The Resistance Broadcast – Episode 98 – What To Do About Leia in Star Wars: Episode IX

On this episode of The Resistance Broadcast, we discuss….

Poll Results; Bottleneck Gallery Giveaway; Solo: A Star Wars Story Official Synopsis Discussion; Phoebe Waller-Bridge Discusses Directorial Changes And Rumors; Scoundrel’s Rundown; Star Wars Wars; Tweeting With The Resistance; Final Thoughts.

 

 

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The official (brief) synopsis of SOLO: A Star Wars Story has been released: here

Phoebe Waller-Bridge discusses the impact of Solo’s director change and rumors about the character she might be playing, and when the teaser will arrive: here

TLJ Box Office: here

Rumored TLJ 4K Steelbook Cover Design: here

 

 

…and this week in our debate segment called STAR WARS WARS, we debate what we think is the best way to handle Princess Leia heading into Episode IX. Each person had their own take on the subject, the gloves came off, and they went to war….a STAR WARS WAR! Listen and see who you think won and if you agree with their position on the controversial topic!

 

 

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67 thoughts on “The Resistance Broadcast – Episode 98 – What To Do About Leia in Star Wars: Episode IX

  • January 22, 2018 at 6:22 pm
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    I think we’ll see E9 take place several years after TLJ. Leia’s passing will be addressed in the opening crawl along the lines of “With the passing of General Organa, the Resistance moves forward under the leadership in Poe Dameron who…” Or something to that effect.

    I’d find this preferable to an on-screen death using a CGI Leia or having her role recast.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:15 pm
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      Best way – the time gap will allow a progression of the story and the ‘space walk’ would of had an effect on her health so opening crawl would be the honourable route to go.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:28 pm
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      I’ve been thinking the same thing. They could also begin the film with a teenage Leia flashback sequence a la “The Last Crusade” (obviously with a new actress).
      Perhaps it ties into a later plot thread, or even sets the stage for an anthology film. This way, the character could still have a dignified presence without it feeling weirdly out-of-place.

      Just a thought.

      • January 23, 2018 at 4:53 am
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        I wouldn’t have any problem with that, but it would have to be within reason. Just a short, but very impactful moment of memory, possibly by an older character that would have known her.

        • January 23, 2018 at 8:06 pm
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          Perhaps Max Von Sydow’s character?

    • January 23, 2018 at 8:00 pm
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      I completely agree, but they don’t have to kill her off, just explain why she’s likely not around in the movie. But the crawl makes the most sense.

  • January 22, 2018 at 6:34 pm
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    BANTHA STAMPEDE! There, problem solved.

    • January 22, 2018 at 6:46 pm
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      I know one commenter who’d approve!

      • January 22, 2018 at 6:48 pm
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        Oh yes…

        • January 23, 2018 at 4:51 am
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          From a certain point of view, I would too.

  • January 22, 2018 at 6:45 pm
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    I’m one of those guys who’s a bit… perplexed as to where 9 will even go. All that’s left is Rey v Ben. I guess they could do a major character examination with the two of them. Which could be cool… but this is JJ we’re talking about. Interesting concepts and rapid pace is more his thing.

    I’ve seen people float the idea of a few or even many years later. That seems fitting, by then I’d actually believe the FO controlled things. The Rebellion may actually have found some people. Rey may have started… something.

    So Leia having a nice send off via the opening crawl or mentioned sadly in the film sounds about right to me. If they go that route.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:49 pm
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      I think it will be a state of outright war. Can only be stopped by reconditioning/pacifying the storm troopers and shutting down the machines – or those supplying them – this would give some real meaning to bringing in Canto Bight. Also a larger purpose to saving Finn for a real moment of heroism in giving his life as part of some reconditioning act.

    • January 23, 2018 at 4:51 am
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      Rey v Ben is obviously Reylo. Get it right

    • January 23, 2018 at 9:07 pm
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      It’s likely they will skip a bit of time 3-10 years and we will hear about her death. I also think it’s likely we will see a Leia force ghost along with a Luke.

  • January 22, 2018 at 6:56 pm
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    They should totally recast her, by Meryl Streep (she can impersonate anyone she wants) as if we lived in the real world, and were not dealing some kind of untouchable crazy religion

    • January 22, 2018 at 6:58 pm
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      Heresy! Expect adjustment officials shortly! Your compliance is mandatory!

      • January 22, 2018 at 9:09 pm
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        That’s exactly what I’m talking about: heresy is o word used by freaking religious radicals — Midichlorians were supposed to have infected and exterminated the freaks by 1999 – how did they survive? plot hole?

      • January 22, 2018 at 9:09 pm
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        That’s exactly what I’m talking about: heresy is o word used by freaking religious radicals — Midichlorians were supposed to have infected and exterminated the freaks by 1999 – how did they survive? plot hole?

      • January 23, 2018 at 4:50 am
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        Heresy is an… interesting word choice for this. I prefer blasphemy, personally

    • January 23, 2018 at 4:49 am
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      Hey bro, I can impersonate anyone I want, but that doesn’t mean I look like ’em…

  • January 22, 2018 at 7:52 pm
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    Has to be recast.

    • January 22, 2018 at 9:06 pm
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      I totally agree. Completing the story is also the best tribute.

    • January 23, 2018 at 9:25 am
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      Absolutely 1000% disagree with recasting. Would be a disaster.

  • January 22, 2018 at 7:59 pm
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    I can’t imagine there isn’t some unused footage from TLJ that can be manipulated to give her a send-off early on in Ep 9

    • January 23, 2018 at 4:48 am
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      Or even ep 7, theoretically

  • January 22, 2018 at 8:00 pm
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    No way Luke isn’t a part of Ep. 9
    I think JJ has an affinity for him

    • January 23, 2018 at 4:48 am
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      Ya know who JJ has an affinity for? Just look at his initials, that’s the only reasonable claim as to why TFA wasn’t great

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:28 pm
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      My advice to Rian — your friend is a sweet guy, but this doesn’t help.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:36 pm
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      So tired of hearing Luke this and Luke that. Look… I don’t mind that Luke failed at all. I think it’s a great idea seeing a ruined Luke after another failed order. That’s bold! What I did not like was how it was conveyed. Not even the grumpy old man part. I liked that.

      It was the critical scene with Ben. That’s what I didn’t care for. That and his projection being a tad awkward. Otherwise I thought it was fairly decent. I have other problems else where but I wanted to focus on Luke since everyone and their dog seem to want to explain to people why it’s ok for Luke to be this way.

      I’m just pointing out it can be a bit more technical than just… I don’t want Luke to be a failure. As I was perfectly fine with that.

      • January 23, 2018 at 4:56 am
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        “tad awkward” you say? #BenSwolo isn’t really awkward to you?

        • January 23, 2018 at 8:21 am
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          Honestly… I mean she sort of just jumped in on him in his quarters. I felt it was there to slightly raise tensions. So no it didn’t really feel off to me. Aside from him not really be that ripped… 😛

          • January 24, 2018 at 4:50 pm
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            I wouldn’t be so sure about that last bit. Have you seen what miracles the Disney-backed Marvel Studios trainers have pulled off?

          • January 24, 2018 at 4:50 pm
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            I wouldn’t be so sure about that last bit. Have you seen what miracles the Disney-backed Marvel Studios trainers have pulled off?

          • January 24, 2018 at 8:42 pm
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            Silly we are even talking about this… but, to me he was large. Almost like the physique you’d see in the 50s to 60s. He wasn’t very defined. Like the ones you mentioned. Go look at Cap or Thor. They are basically chiseled from rock. I’m in no way implying he’s not in shape or muscular though. He definitely put on a layer of muscle.

          • January 25, 2018 at 1:04 am
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            If nothing else… my google search now has “Shirtless Kylo Ren” in it’s history now. lmao.

      • January 23, 2018 at 3:58 pm
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        I think people also need to realize that while we see Luke in a bad place in TLJ, all indications point to that being a fairly recent occurrence. Bloodline takes places 7 or so years prior to The Force Awakens. In the novel, Luke and Ben are tooling around the galaxy on the hunt for Jedi lore and artifacts. So…I don’t know…Luke was on Ahch-To for what…5 years?

        For the 25 or so years after Return of the Jedi, the lives of Luke, Leia, and Han seem to have been fairly happy. There is a lot of room for successes in that time span. Yes, Luke’s attempt to restart the Jedi Order was thwarted. Yes, his spirit was (temporarily) broken. But to judge these character’s, especially Luke’s, lives as failures isn’t realistic.

        • January 23, 2018 at 9:55 pm
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          Any back story on Ben Solo as a child ? I havn’t read the books. For him to be so nihilistic in the new trilogy,I was thinking there had to be some kind of trauma as a child.Akin to Anakins childhood on TPM.

          • January 23, 2018 at 11:02 pm
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            No. Not much of anything. He really has no part in the story other than having been mentioned as being off with Luke.

          • January 23, 2018 at 11:02 pm
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            No. Not much of anything. He really has no part in the story other than having been mentioned as being off with Luke.

  • January 22, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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    Nothing against Carrie Fisher but the mistake was making her the most prominent return cast member from the OT in the first place, it does not help that she didn’t even sound like Leia let alone act like her, and makes matters worse that there was nowhere really interesting to go with her character anyways and she was basically just there. The Last Jedi script should have been heavily edited and all of Admiral Holdo’s scenes should have been given to Leia, that’s the only way this was going to be done right.

    Now the reality is a beloved character in the most popular film franchise ever dying off screen, there’s no way to fix this.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:30 pm
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      I can’t disagree enough with everything you said.

      • January 23, 2018 at 4:57 am
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        atta boy, right with u

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:31 pm
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      I thought she was great in TLJ. I had no problem with her voice being deeper. We get older man. Technically we hadn’t seen Leia in 30 years! Who knows what she went through. I can respect the decision to leave in her final moments as an actress in. Not just editing it to be her death. I can’t blame anyone at Lucasfilm for being put into a tough situation. Life happens.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:49 pm
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      Hindsight is 20/20. They had absolutely no expectation of her dying. She was going to be a prominent character in Episode IX, possibly being influential in redeeming Kylo Ren. So there absolutely was a reason to have Leia survive this movie.

      • January 23, 2018 at 3:51 pm
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        Yeah, I can’t imagine the tumult Fisher’s death threw into the writing process.

        But while I might have chosen to have her die in TLJ, I respect the choice of leaving her alive throughout the film; thus honoring the integrity of the picture she was part of.

        There are certainly ways the writers can address her passing…I’m just glad that isn’t my job. : )

    • January 23, 2018 at 3:48 pm
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      “…it does not help that she didn’t even sound like Leia let alone act like her…”

      Ridiculous. You do realize that 30 years have passed, right? As people age, they often sound and act somewhat different.

      “… there was nowhere really interesting to go with her character anyways…” – “… that’s the only way this was going to be done right.”

      Pure opinion. And really, could you be more narrow-minded about a movie? To concoct a scenario in your head about how a movie should have been written, then to aver that that is the only way it could have been “done right” shows an incredible lack of imagination.

  • January 22, 2018 at 8:32 pm
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    Open the movie with her funeral. Keep the camera tight, making it look like its a small, intimate gathering of the remaining Resistance members.

    Then the camera pans out and we see thousands in attendance, all ignited by the spark that was Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi.

    The Resistance lives on.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:38 pm
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      I… like that. The crowd should be massive. I’d probably cry. Heck, I’m tearing up at the thought. She’ll always be royalty to me.

    • January 22, 2018 at 8:38 pm
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      I… like that. The crowd should be massive. I’d probably cry. Heck, I’m tearing up at the thought. She’ll always be royalty to me.

      • January 23, 2018 at 4:45 am
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        I wouldn’t go that far, but then again, I don’t have that helmet to cry under. Death Troopers have it easy.

      • January 23, 2018 at 3:44 pm
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        “Heck, I’m tearing up at the thought.”

        You and me both. Getting older sucks, and it’s difficult to watch our childhood heroes pass on. Han Solo is dead. Carrie fisher is gone. Luke Skywalker has transitioned into the Force (I resist using the word ‘died’ because I just don’t think it applies to his particular case). The wheel stops for nobody. Resistance is futile (I know, I know. Wrong franchise).

        After the ST was in the works and Lucasfilm announced that the Big 3 would return, it became pretty clear that their role would be to “pass the torch” to a new generation of heroes. Like a lot of folks, I was very excited to see them once again, but I also understood – with a certain degree of trepidation – that it was going to be a bittersweet experience. So it goes.

        Case in point: for those of us that grew up in the 80’s, think about all the musical talent we’ve lost in the last 4-5 years. Ugh.

    • January 22, 2018 at 9:27 pm
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      That’s exactly the way I see it. Open the film with a load of new Resistance ships above a planet, then pan down to a funeral taking place, with Poe, Rey ,etc. sitting front row. The opening crawl can explain why she died so we don’t need any forced dialogue.

      • January 22, 2018 at 10:29 pm
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        Yep, she died of old age, she succumbed to her injuries, etc…and use that as inspiration for the rebels. It’s not hard.

  • January 23, 2018 at 12:59 am
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    The closer we get to the Solo trailer, the more positive I feel myself getting.

    I think this movie will pleasantly surprise a lot of the people.

    3 things I want to see from the trailer:

    1. Han Solo
    2. Han Solo
    3. Han Solo

    • January 23, 2018 at 8:02 pm
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      I think you’re going to be really disappointed because Harrison Ford isn’t in this movie.

      • January 23, 2018 at 8:12 pm
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        Ha ha. I see what you did there.

  • January 23, 2018 at 8:53 pm
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    The story could jump ahead 10 years and we could hear about what happened to her or maybe see it in a cartoon or comic. A recast, CG or having her die off screen just after the events of TLJ would be awful, they are screwed. She fired 2-3 blaster shots the whole trilogy and frumped around control rooms hugging people. Screw you JJ & RJ, you squandered Leia’s character. I’m having trouble even giving a shit what happens any more after the way TLJ ended.

  • January 23, 2018 at 8:53 pm
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    The story could jump ahead 10 years and we could hear about what happened to her or maybe see it in a cartoon or comic. A recast, CG or having her die off screen just after the events of TLJ would be awful, they are screwed. She fired 2-3 blaster shots the whole trilogy and frumped around control rooms hugging people. Screw you JJ & RJ, you squandered Leia’s character. I’m having trouble even giving a shit what happens any more after the way TLJ ended.

  • January 24, 2018 at 11:38 am
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    Actually I can imagine an altered rendition of ‘The birth of the twins and Padme’s destiny’ and Leia’s theme flowing into a sombre rendition of the Resistance March. I think it makes more sense for her character than ‘Binary Sunset’ at this point.

    • January 24, 2018 at 10:29 pm
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      That’s exactly what I had in mind! But I feel like they’re gonna staple binary sunset to anything and everything at this point.

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