If I am perfectly honest, I'm not sure what Arissa has been doing. I considered that she might be guiding, er, Luke's twin, but I also think she might not even be a ghost. I suspect it takes time to master for a not-Skywalker, and Arissa is on some path of her own. And it's probably not likely that she could find her so quickly when it took twenty years to track down Luke.
(Originally the scene was actually going to be Arissa and Shmi talking about finding her-name-is-redacted-for-spoilers, but I decided that "women talking about babies" failed the spirit of the request if not the letter of the Bechdel law. Well, what you said, pretty much!
whose main flaw in that area tends to be that he considers incompetence a capital crime and doesn't balk at all at torture
Ha, yes. I suspect Vader considers any crime a capital crime, really. And he's totally cool with torture -- though I've always thought it interesting that in the radio plays and novelizations and everything except the movie itself, the implication is that he sends the robotic torture droid away; the "mind probe" he refers to is a creepy Force thing and that's why she hasn't so much as a smudge on her makeup. (I vaguely alluded to this in Revenge, where Luke is all MIND RAPE IS BAD and Vader's like "duh, that's why it's for torture.")
I am personally convinced that Palpatine knew more or less exactly what was going to happen at Mustafar and thoughtfully prepared the suit ahead of time.
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on 2011-10-27 06:59 pm (UTC)(Originally the scene was actually going to be Arissa and Shmi talking about finding her-name-is-redacted-for-spoilers, but I decided that "women talking about babies" failed the spirit of the request if not the letter of the Bechdel law. Well, what you said, pretty much!
whose main flaw in that area tends to be that he considers incompetence a capital crime and doesn't balk at all at torture
Ha, yes. I suspect Vader considers any crime a capital crime, really. And he's totally cool with torture -- though I've always thought it interesting that in the radio plays and novelizations and everything except the movie itself, the implication is that he sends the robotic torture droid away; the "mind probe" he refers to is a creepy Force thing and that's why she hasn't so much as a smudge on her makeup. (I vaguely alluded to this in Revenge, where Luke is all MIND RAPE IS BAD and Vader's like "duh, that's why it's for torture.")
I am personally convinced that Palpatine knew more or less exactly what was going to happen at Mustafar and thoughtfully prepared the suit ahead of time.