There's people that post here that have fucked up views on things.

You are completely wrong about the plans and the escape pod. Leia most certainly did obtain the plans. That's why her ship is being attacked at the beginning of the movie. She also placed them into R2D2 and programmed him to take an escape pod to Tatooine to find Kenobi. Why else would she record the message? Did she…

Leia is the LEADER and has a bit more responsibility than those other guys and this is about the women of 'Star Wars', not the men. Once you know for certain she and Han are in love, both characters are written into uselessness.

Not too bad for a unique fix-'er upper opportunity.

This sucks, they ripped off Michael Bay!!

I don't think she obtained those plans, she put them into R2 and recorded a message. After that, nearly everything else you listed her doing in Episode IV was immaterial. It was R2's idea to hide in the escape pod, her creating the exit was her shooting a grate; figuring the garbage chute as a way out wasn't really…

lol

How much?

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How much?

Leia did one helpful thing the entire trilogy: recording the message for Obi-Wan. She was useless, until the end of 'Empire' but Lando & Luke could've freed Han by themselves really. You don't think it was reckless for the leader of the Rebellion to put herself in that position to save one man who was a criminal? It'd…

Leia and Padme were not strong female characters. Leia put Han before her responsibilities to the Rebellion and Padme never did anything useful.

I hate me for liking this more than I do you for revealing it's existence to me; you've done a good thing today.

After what we saw in the prequels, damn near anything is possible.

What's a white knight?

Have you ever played 'Final Fantasy Tactics'?

An internet picture is worth some words.

I'm on my Mac and it's perfect.

Smart thinking, at least there's no drama in the civilian world.