Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi : Princess Leia should be given an amazing, heroic, pivotal death in Ep 8

Please don't "retire her to a safe place", please don't have her "pass away between films".please.

She completed her work for Episode 8. They have one year until this film is released. She is confirmed to have a "larger role" in Ep 8 than in Ep 7.

Use the material that you have to create a scenario where Princess Leia is given a heroic, meaningful death that is as SIGNIFICANT of a moment for this saga as it SHOULD be. THE CHARACTER DESERVES IT, CARRIE FISHER DESERVES IT.

She doesn't deserve to be lazily written out between films, or to be stashed away and forgotten about. The passing of Princess Leia needs to be powerful, and it needs to mean something for the story. They need to properly honor Carrie Fisher and her role as Princess Leia when creating an exit for her character out of the franchise.

It is the only choice, in my eyes.

Agreed

A lot of people are trying to do this 'Don't change a thing about Episode 9 and deal with it in 8'

But I disagree with that. Having Episode 8 go as plannedhaving been made with the intention of having her return in Ep 9and then forcing Episode 9 to deal with it all and adjust to all of it.it would not feel organic at all.

You want to adjust for the real-life tragedy, but in a way the compliments or even enhances the storytelling of the Saga, not in a way that hinders it and feels cheap.

Episode 8 and Episode 9 should both be impacted and adjusted and should share the task of accounting for the tragic passing of Carrie Fisher, and by extension, the passing of Princess Leia.

No offense, but I trust Lucasfilm's judgement over yours.

I've also heard Luke might die in Episode 8. I guess if Lando appears in any of Abrams films, he'll die to :( Will Chewie die too ? :(

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Yes. All Star Wars characters eventually die. They've been dead a long long time, we are just seeing when and how they died.

How will they kill her off though?

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Well, I haven't seen the film, I haven't read the scriptso I wouldn't have the first clue as to where/how it would be incorporated.

It should definitely not be something relegated to the opening crawl of Episode 9, though.

I hope Leila gets a good send off.

You didn't get my point at all.

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If I'm understanding your question correctly, then they could use existing footage such as footage of Leia simply sitting on a ship, then CGI it exploding. Without dialogue though the scene would probably be awkward no matter how they did it. I predict that they will leave ep.8 pretty much as is.

It really is not the same thing.

Not unless they decide to polish her off in an extended and thrilling cardiac arrest sequence.

Leia doesn't need to die. Leia doesn't need to retire. She's the head of The Resistance. She can still do that but we don't see her. Like I said in another posting, it's a big galaxy. Not running into her again in Episode 9 will be "fine."

It wouldn't be fine. It'd feel weird as hell. At least killing her off would bring closure to her character.

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That sort of pivot would feel awkward as hell. And it's all dependent on what happens in Episode 8. If it ends on a suspenseful note like ESB with something like Kylo Ren kidnapping her and Luke forced to emerge from hiding at last to rescue her, they would be foolish not to rework an ending like that and minimise their future problems while they have the chance.

It would be like if Hamill had died prior to the release of TFA, but they'd kept the same cliffhanger ending, then relied on the opening of Episode 8 for a massive pivot.

Depending on what they have, they may even hold a scene or two that they shot for 8 and use it in 9.

The thing about it being a big galaxy - is that it's really not.

The entire Star Wars franchise has worked on the idea that it's set in a big galaxy far far away, where all the characters happen to randomly bump into each other in the very locations that they need to be in.


Death is the standard breach for a complex prize.

The Force does guide everything but I think you're underestimating the galaxy.

I totally agree. In fact, if the story goes where I think it's going to go, then there could be a perfect opportunity to both give Leia closure and honor Carrie's legacy.

If Leia dies attempting to keep the Republic together, then it makes her the ultimate martyr for the good guys. She died to ensure that freedom could live. And that could be the catalyst that rallies the systems of the Republic to join the fight and STOP the First Order (which would take place in IX).

In the end, they establish a new capital and they put a giant statue of Leia Organa smack-dab in the middle of the city. It would be a beautiful tribute to our favorite princess.

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Yep. With a majestic version of the Force or Han/Leia theme playing during the scene, as a tribute to her.

The reports say that in ep8, the next Jedi will be a Skywalker. And despite a lot of speculations, there's little pointing to Rey being a Skywalker, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea if Kylo gets his redemption this early, if that's what they were gunning for from the start.

Here's what I have in mind. I want a scene in ep8 to reveal that Leia was well trained by Luke in using the Force all along and she gets her own lightsaber fight scene, and by the end of the movie, Luke grants her the title of full Jedi so that maybe she could train her own students for the upcoming war against the First Order, or lead the Resistance as a Jedi. And then in ep9, she can be explained as being too busy being in command in the Resistance, while the movie focuses more on her students, maybe Finn and Kelly Marie Tran's character, who became better trained fighters in between films.

Just an idea.

Also, thank you, Carrie Fisher.

I think episode eight should end with Kylo watching his mother sacrifice herself, whether it's to save him or save the Republic. Then, episode nine deals with his growing resentment of Snoke and the guilt he feels for being the catalyst in his parents' deaths. In the end, Luke, Kylo, and Rey join forces to destroy Snoke and the First Order.

I'm not sure I like the idea of killing off Leia, TBH. Despite being a major character, she's still someone from the previous generation who would "pass the torch" to new characters, and so, it's not wholly difficult to keep her influence around while keeping her character alive but absent. If anybody's still following Abrams' Star Trek continuity, I think that's what they were planning to do with the late Anton Yelchin's character, rather than recasting him.

I felt Star Trek Beyond dealt with Nimoy's death respectively. Old Spock dies offscreen between films, but a major part of Beyond is about young Spock dealing with it, and at the end they make a touching speech dedicated to his memory. They didn't need to stick in some stand-in with a CG face pasted on and then shoot, stab, and or blow it up (which I fail to see as properly honoring somebody). I don't even know why someone would want more CG Leia after the horrifying wax sculpture at the end of Rogue One.

I agree about Leah, but they should have given Han the same thought of an amazing, heroic, pivotal death in episode 7 fit for such a classic rogue character too like kamikaze his falcon into the starkiller base, instead of the pitiful weak foolish one we ended up with, which I think Disney did deliberately to flex their egos just to big up their new characters over the classics ones, at any cost.

Unless they go the route of using CGI to bring her into Episode IX ala Rogue One I have absolutely no doubt that they'll find a way to kill her off in Episode VIII (or perhaps early in Episode IX in some way). They'll pretty much have to. The character's absence will certainly need to be explained and I can't imagine anybody would be dumb enough to simply have her pass away between films.