Splinter of the Mind's Eye/YMMV


 * Alternate Character Interpretation: Leia is in the throes of PTSD and being a Jerkass because of it (or even moving to the realm of outright villain when she asks Luke, who is still insanely naive, to murder her if they're captured), and Luke is the Iron Woobie who is too stupid to realize Leia's being borderline abusive.
 * Though at the end of the book a trapped Luke tells Leia to take his lightsaber and kill him, then herself, rather than . It seems more like a request for a Mercy Kill than an act of villainy.
 * Fridge Brilliance: How does Vader know how to turn off C-3PO? He built C-3PO, and knows the commands that are built into him beyond anything a mind-wipe can get at. When Leia is tortured on the Death Star, why does she seem to have no reaction? Because she's still in shock, and the real reaction is horribly damaging.
 * Vader's artificial right hand in Return of the Jedi should have been because - or, alternately, the Emperor took it after the first Death Star was lost - but was Ret Conned by the prequels. Vader seems to go through Serial Prosthesis.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: The Luke/Leia tension, after Return of the Jedi anyway. Suddenly it's extra, extra squicky.
 * Iron Woobie: Leia and Halla can both survive just about anything, and have. Luke is just too sweet and dumb to realize Leia's being mean at all, just occasionally having hurt feelings and moving on.
 * And Leia, at one point, is forced to, but continues fighting until she literally . This can be taken as a metaphor for her even being on Mimban at all--while she really should be in a mind-healer's office dealing with her psychological problems, she just refuses to give up. Under. Any. Circumstances.
 * In his defense, he's smart enough to not just ask about why she's being a Jerkass, but shut up when she says she's not ready to talk about it.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: At one point, they describe Vader's lightsaber as blue.