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Or having a beloved character die off screen
Or faking a death and undoing the fakeout within a couple of minutes.
It sucks, yes, but was there a good way to do it otherwise? The movie was in late post-production, about a year from release, and Carrie featured heavily in the end of the movie. It would've required pretty major changes and reshoots to organically insert Leia's death in.
Oh, see I actually meant Admiral Ackbar 😂
But yeah her too. Really tho having her blown out during decompression was THE WAY to give her a solid heartfelt death, only then to suddenly have her display wild Jedi powers she never hinted at before was a choice.
Oh, hah. Fair.
As for the space walk, that choice was definitely made before her death, and while it would have made a good point to add it in, it would still require significant changes to the ending. It is unfortunate, but I don't think it's fair to hang that on Rian.
It wouldn't have taken all that much to make that her exit from the series. The edits might have been a bit rough, but it was very doable.
I'll push back on "never hinted at" because way back at Bespin she was force-sensitive enough to find Luke under the city.
Also, Luke straight up predicts she'll be as powerful him and their father in RotJ. It didn't come out of nowhere.
Pretty sure that’s just a normal ability for twins /s
Redo the end of the movie, delay the release if need be. The plot can still move forward if Leia is propped up as a martyr. Just don't have her fly back into the spaceship and everything up to that point can stay exactly the same.
Delays and reshoots not only cost loads of money, they throw off the pace of production, increasing the likelihood of a bigger disaster opposed to just running it as planned.
And imo, the ending would have been much worse off without Leia's scenes. Changing that would change the entire story.