STAR WARS

Who does Princess Leia get her title from?

Seriously.
Think.
Does she get her royal title from... Bail Organa?!
Nonsense - nowhere will you find anybody suggesting that Bail is a regent.
Are we supposed to believe that she was adopted but KEPT her royal title?
Again, nonsense.

Leia gets her title from her mom, the Queen.
And from her dad, Lord Darth Vader.
It is in the new trilogy that we have it hammered home that Vader MARRIED THE QUEEN.
That wasn't made up for the new trilogy - we were told in ROTJ that Leia was Vader's OTHER kid.
Vader married the Queen - he is a Lord, as in King.
He is never called Dark Lord of the Sith in the original trilogy (or the new trilogy for that matter).
The word Sith is never uttered in the original trilogy

Lord Darth Vader is the father of Princess Leia and he always appears in flowing cape and intimidating helmet.
Vader is the male head of a family of galactic royalty
Naboo is no back-water
Amidala is not a Queen, she is THE Queen The galactic senate does whatever ANYBODY from the house of regency on Naboo say, be it Palpatine, Amidala, or fucking JAR JAR!

It's difficult to spot the villain in your own world.
How much more difficult might it be to spot the villian in a galaxy far far away?

You see, the good guys don't always wear white...

And the bad guys don't always wear black.

Vader doesn't act like a standard villain.
I used to give Lucas credit for excellent writing by finally writing a worthy villain.
But then he made the new trilogy, and over and over again we get to see how Lucas writes villains; cowardly and short-sighted.
That's not Vader - Vader is a brave master strategist.

There is something going on with the royal wadrobe that is reiterated and reinforced in the new trilogy.
This isn't about Anakin turning evil, because we see that it's Amidala's royal garb that flows black.
Anakin's style takes on the royal black after hanging around with the ex-Queen (ex?! relax - we'll get to it!).
Is this some sort of gender signifier? Or maybe a dualist philosophy worn on the sleeve?

And all these vestments seem so, um, DARK.
Have we misunderstood something fundamental about the nature of 'Dark Side'?
Does Dark Side reflect evil?
The good guys don't call themselves the Light Side.

In ROTJ we see the red-clad Royal Guards - they're in the Emperor's (hint) THRONE ROOM (hint hint).
Nothing is stated about them but the feeling is left that they are associated with the Emperor and Vader.
But in the new trilogy we see red-clad royal guards flanking Amidala, who is dressed in black.
There doesn't seem to be even the hint that it is Amidala that corrupts Anakin.
This is all just more evidence of the royal family's aesthetic.

Anyway...
So what is it the King and his daughter are doing again?
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