Leia Line Lost?
Please advise on whether George Lucas, TCM, or I am to blame here. One of the most memorable lines for me in the 1977 original Star Wars film and the novelization is Princess Leia's, "Leave him alone. Can't you see what the old man meant to him?" during the escape from the Death Star. I was listening for it in the scene where she placed the blanket around Luke's shoulders, but I would swear that the TCM version went straight from Han Solo saying, "Come with me, kid, we're not out of this yet," to Luke shaking off the blanket to follow Han without Leia saying anything. Was this line only in the novelization, and I merely imagined it to be in the movie? Or was it in the original movie, and if so why no mention of such a significant cut on any of the fan sites listing changes? Was it somehow missing from the TCM version only but appears on the discs (I looked into getting discs several years ago, but everything I saw was Blu-Ray only and I wasn't buying a new player just for that), or, most sinister and insidious, was the line actually spoken in the TCM version and I briefly entered an alternate timeline in which that line doesn't exist? I can't find this scene on YouTube so help me, internet. You're my only hope! Thanks and May the Force Be With You.
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