Leia Visits Tatooine to Learn About Anakin's Life (Legends)

[@lemhanback9595]

Love hearing these stories from books I never knew existed. Thank you.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed 🙏

[@MMZERO9]

The fact that even Han was sympathetic to Anakin’s upbringing was a great touch.

[@AirbenderHawk]

THIS detail sounds wholesome the moment she discovers Anakin's true heritage. Legends and canon are fun to read on, especially to the former.

[@elainenagano2735]

Yes just 😊 love it. Makes my heart yearn for more of George’s vision!

[@miguelarcangelolmedalopez1331]

I LIKE THAT LEIA LEARN THE TRUTH OF THE GOOD MAN HER FATHER WAS BEFORE BECOMING DARTH VADER

[@kevin-2.1]

Yep

[@elainenagano2735]

@@miguelarcangelolmedalopez1331 yes yes sooo awsome!!!!!! I just love that!

[@JustinMinckley]

I've seen the ones with Luke, but Leia and Han learning all this takes it to a new level. Great drop with Kitster at the end.

[@jmwilliamsart]

I’m reminded of a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Whenever you feel like criticizing someone. Just remember that not everybody has had the same advantages you’ve had.” Leia needs to understand that Anakin didn’t have a lot of the advantages that she enjoyed growing up, that his life was fraught with emotional and physical trauma since he was a little boy. He was placed in a Jedi order that had become far too rigid and dogmatic to give him the emotional support that he needed. Palpatine’s manipulation and the trauma of the Clone War further pushed him towards the dark side. Leia had a stable, loving and supportive family, and financial support. Anakin didn’t have any of those things.

[@bwy553]

@@jmwilliamsart yeah, he grew up slave to a house fly on a slum planet in the middle of the desert. She grew up a princess on a lush garden planet and she’s so judgmental. I guess that’s why Luke understood him so much more

[@bluestone476]

Great video. Very thorough and well researched. I love hearing these stories from Legends. I never read EU books and comics, and now they are not as easy to find (or affordable for me). So I appreciate that you took the time to create this content. Thank you!!

[@RetneysHolocron]

Much appreciated!

[@Abdullah7536]

It was actually funny to see Han stepping up for Anakin at times lol

[@AlphonsoFrett-xz6pi]

Thank you very much for the excellent story

[@kevin-2.1]

I love that Leia forgives Anakin for how he became Darth Vader. Learning that he wasn’t the evil man she always thought of him to be. In fact, Anakin wouldn’t slaughter the tuskens if Qui-Gon was still alive. Because things would have been different. And after that, she is going to name her third child after her father, Anakin Solo.

[@Drinksalotobeer]

Man! That was awesome! Thank you! I hope there can be a second part to this sometime in the near future.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Thanks for watching! This is basically the entire story, as told in the book "Tatooine Ghost!"

[@Drinksalotobeer]

One can only hope for more! You and so many others do a great job! I truly look forward to more of what you offer.

[@margaret4196]

I really enjoyed this video! I always look forward to the next one. Thanks for your great work!

[@RetneysHolocron]

Awesome, thank you!

[@alexbarron3831]

Darth Vader wasn't her father, Anakin Skywalker was her father.

[@JediSimpson]

Anakin is Darth Vader. They’re the same person, whether he’s on the Light or Dark Side of the Force. The Dark Side just corrupts the user.

[@alexbarron3831]

​​​​​@@JediSimpsonyes, obviously they're the same person under the suit. But he was born Anakin Skywalker not Darth Vader. Darth Vader was just an identity that he was given and used to hide his true identity because he was ashamed and had fallen from the light. It's like Luke said in return of the Jedi: it is the name of your true self you've only forgotten. Also when Leia finally forgave him she saw him not as Darth Vader anymore but as Anakin Skywalker.

[@rodgill9376]

Regardless of the reasons how or why, Owen had absolutely NO RIGHT to hide or get rid of Shmi’s gravestone. That was not his place to do so. He’s very lucky that Anakin or Luke had never found out due to his death. Imagine how he would feel if someone had removed his father’s gravestone without his knowledge or say so, I would imagine he’d be very upset about it. So why would he do that crap to someone else? That part always had rubbed me the wrong way.

[@Blackman1000ify]

It kind of makes sense that Vader killed him.

[@michaelgarcia8602]

I love The story ❤.

[@marvolomethod]

11:21 well I’m crying

[@davidallen346]

Qui Gon should've rescued Shmi Skywalker as well when he pickup Anakin

[@marctorres2759]

Great video. You have done well.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Thank you very much!

[@eugenelau3927]

Tattooine Tales was just one part for Leia to learn about her biological Dad's upbringing but Canonical material "Blood Line" shows her encounter with Anakin's Force Ghost before taking the initiative to read Grandma Shmi's journal entries. As the book goes deeper , her enemies in the Senate used her relation to Vader to discredit her, but it would not work anymore!!!

[@nathanchun4880]

I really wish this was Canon

[@mistysouders7823]

Anakin was indeed sorry 😞 on level. But not on another. Unfortunately it was the later t h at would eventually become his undoing😢 but at Leia learned the truth

[@drifter139]

it's easy for them to say that a Jedi would never kill out of anger when they know almost nothing about the Jedi and Sith or their codes. I doubt they would have just walked away if the same had happened to their loved ones and likely they would have done what Anakin did. I hope this at least helped Leia to understand who Anakin was and how he struggled while other Jedi didn't understand what he went through

[@sattymike0155]

I don’t get how she didn’t know anything about Anakin Skywalker. He was a Republic general and war hero of the clone wars. Nearly at the point of being a council level Jedi master. She wouldn’t have known about his life as a child, but all the good he did as a Jedi knight she had to have known.

[@RetneysHolocron]

When the Empire rose, they painted the Jedi as traitors and suppressed all history/records of the Jedi. Pretty soon nobody spoke about Jedi anymore. Leia knew what a Jedi was, but maybe Bail didn’t want to let her learn about the Jedi by name and stuff

[@tjjordan4207]

The Legends/Lucas era really handled a lot of things far better than the Disney era. Even right down to Leia's thoughts and feelings towards Anakin, even coming to forgive him later after learning more about him.

[@yusrashah1173]

love this

[@IllyrianRauthan-v9o]

I think Leia finally realized what set her dad on the path he was destined to never return from I think she what's her knowing that her dad had to lose his mother in the way and then knowing that it was the Tuscan raders that caused her death she probably realized that her dad do not think of Mercy but this is good knowing that she now knows Anakin was a hero and a good man but it was other events that set him on the dark path imagine what she would learn if she was to know about her dad's involvement in the bloody Battle of the clone wars

[@clank0ta404]

Ironic how Leia dismissed the idea of having children to avoid them possibly falling to the same dark fate as Anakin. And when she came to terms with her heritage, she would give birth to Jacen who down the line would eventually become Darth Caedus.

[@RetneysHolocron]

And this theme even continued in canon with Kylo Ren!

[@cinrambrad]

No mention of the protocol droid Anakin built ..........