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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked the movie overall.  I have a real problem with Leia as Kylo's mother, however.  She seems completely cold and emotionless toward him.  Yes, I know he's terrible and yadda yadda but seriously?  Your son just showed up as the leader of the galaxy hell bent on destroying you, your base, and the small bit of survivors still following you, and instead of going out there to see what you can do, you sit on your ass and wait for others to come up with the plan?  ...as an aside, she seemed like a very ineffectual leader - no real leadership, just a figurehead.

And then your brother shows up...so you allow your brother to go out to die at the hand of your son with no offers of involvement from yourself.  He's your son, for Christ sake!  Instead you run chicken shit into the caves.

Terrible and incomprehensible.  I feel like this would not be accepted by the audience if it was a man doing this.  But it's a woman choosing her career over her kid, and that's fashionable in the moment, or something.  Except no.[/quote]

I don't think she was uncaring at all, I think she simply had come to accept that she could not bend people to her will and struggled with the pain of that. She has seen enough with Luke, Vader and her own son to know that they all have to follow their own paths and she cannot force them otherwise (if she could, she would have saved Kylo long ago).

When Kylo comes out in the first battle and is line to hit the bridge of the rebel carrier, he and Leia sense each other. You can see in her face that she knows she's powerless to stop him if he wants to do something terrible, but she's hoping against hope that he won't. I think she also knows that if she were to in some way "go out there," if anything it might anger him and provoke him into doing something he might not have otherwise. The only thing she can do there is put faith in the good still in him to prevail and keep him from blackening his soul further.

When Luke comes out at the end, I think she appreciates that going out there and confronting Kylo directly is something Luke feels he needs to do to redeem himself for his failure at the temple, and she's trusting that Luke has a plan (it's not like the rebels have any other options at that point anyway - this movie is all about the bleak desperation of a rebellion that is going to die unless it can find a new hero to save it). She knows that Luke isn't going out there with the intention of killing Kylo, he's going out there to try to save him, but if he can't save Kylo (because ultimately only Kylo can save himself by choosing a different path), he's at least going to stop him from destroying the rebellion.[/quote]

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