This one's more bad characterization than a plot hole, but in the U.S. Queer As Folk I never liked how callously the characters reacted to finding the dead kid in the garbage behind the diner. Damn few people, no matter their otulook on life, can be so blase' about something like that, let alone an entire group of friends. Then to top it all off, a few epsiodes later and it's off the register completely. Stupid.

uPtoWnNY said:

Lucas will probably never explain it, but here's my take on it.

Leia tells Luke that it's "Just feelings, really...images." She also went on to say that "She died when I was very young."

The feelings and images are most likely from her use of The Force to which she picked up on her surroundings. This ability is evident in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy ("Heir to the Empire", "Dark Force Rising", and "The Last Command") where Leia's unborn children, Jacen and Jaina, were Force powerful in her womb and would pick up on feelings and such from their mother. Granted, Padme wasn't a Force user, but I don't believe it would really make a difference when she was having the children of the most powerful Force user ever, Anakin. The images probably also came from holos that were available from Bail Organa. He had to have shared information about Padme to Leia because she knew she was adopted. She didn't think twice about it when Luke asked her about her "real mother". The feelings could have also been what feelings she took from those very same holos...that Padme looked sad in them. As for "She died when I was very young," well, you can't get much younger than a minute-old newborn.

lazycrockett said:

He may not have had it in mind when making the original trilogy, but he does leave a lot of information up to the nowriters of the Expanded Universe. They fill in the gaps in theory a lot of the time.