• StellarTabi [she/her]
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    51 year ago

    Here’s my cool guess: Maybe he can sense her, but she was introduced to him as an important political figure first, which caused a blindspot in identifying any personal relevance she may have to him. Luke was sensed without any context because he was actively training?

    • snooggums
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      21 year ago

      Nah, the easy explanation is the Force is fucking with Vader.

      • flicker
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        41 year ago

        My guess was always that she was an active Force user, but since she didn’t spend a lot of time around other Force users, she learned to use her power defensively (being taught to hide from enemies as a child).

        So she developed a natural “cloaking” effect, which she cultivated over time, and used to keep hiding from people (her father, the Empire) during her various escapades, so by the time she met Vader all her skill points were dumped into Hide in Plain Sight.

        …and since why would Vader bother taking a second look at the Force presence of a random Senator’s daughter…

          • @mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            She was his daughter, and based on Lukes feats and Yodas yammering, she is also insanely powerful. It is fully possible her raw force powers, instinctively honed into an “you ain’t seeing shit” effect over her entire life, are strong enough to bluff him.

            The real cause is that she wasent his daughter at this point in the movies, because luke and leia weren’t related in the first one. George “i want han solo to be a lizard man” lucas leaned in and made it “weird” after the fact.

      • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        How did she bluff Vader? He took her and tortured and interrogated her, he didn’t fall for her lie. And she didn’t even know she was his daughter at the time, so why would he have sensed that?

      • magnetosphere
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        1 year ago

        I read an interview with Dave Filoni. He basically said that what he’s trying to fix with all the Star Wars shows on Disney+. He’s trying to fill in the major plot holes, clarify stuff the writers left vague, and make the movies at least somewhat reasonable.

        As a nerd, I appreciate the effort, but he’s got a LOT of work to do.