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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

However, would you rather she died in a big battle like that or off-screen as she is going to have to be in the next movie?

Personally, I think a lot people are letting their nostalgia from the old novels and stuff get in the way of their enjoyment of these new movies. They want little to no surprises in the movies as they want everything to chart familiar territory since that is the universe they grew up with. They also don't want to see their favorite heroes get old and grumpy like real people do.

I can't give an objective answer on that Leia question. I can say that I think if she had been killed in battle towards the end of the movie after being given the opportunity to have the Luke reunion then I'd be okay with it. My issue would be that if she died at that particular scene in the movie as is then she didn't even make it halfway through, that would be my issue.

I know some friends who are way too attached to the old EU books. I never got into those books seriously because I figured eventually one day what is happening would happen, getting more movies that is, but these guys dove right in. They could probably draw me a full extended family tree based on those books if I asked them to. Every time the new movies get brought up they always eventually go to "well the books did it like..." and how much more awesome they think that is. The characterization of Luke in particular. In the books of the old EU I guess he basically became space-Jesus or some other phrase for an ultra-jedi-saint and so they were all complaining that now he's depicted as a flawed, human character who broke under pressure.