Why did they send it by FedEx though?
In 1977 that was just some hot chick that Luke was going to bone, and probably marry some day.
Besides a 19 year old senator?
That is ridiculous, Unless this is the last days of Rome where everything is decadent and emperor's new clothes. I say that t he character was probably supposed to be almost 30? The same age as Han Solo.
The Skywakers were not twins, and the 1970s audience would have been disgusted if she was older than Han, trying to seduce these two boy children in the movie into giving up their cherries, to make this wrinkled old maid feel young again.
What a 1970s audience would think about a thirty year old woman trying to grab a 19 year old ass: Disgusting predator.
Sunset Boulevade or the Graduate?
Gloria was 51, vs William's 32.
Anne was 36, vs Dustin's 30.
Only retroactively, is Leia also equally a new hope which isn't even true, Leia is only a new hope if Luke dies, which happened in a comic I read once, because politically or martially she only becomes noticeable after a dozen people above her in the rebellion hierarchy dies, including Mon Mothma, which is probably where we are at in the sequel trilogy.
