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Talking About 'Star Wars': Why does Leia not mention her family and friends, as well as her home, have been destroyed in the films?

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One of the most annoying trends that I've noticed while perusing social media sites such as Facebook and Quora, particularly the latter, is that franchise fans want to be spoon-fed every detail of a character arc instead of using their imaginations, as we dinosaurs from the prehistoric days before the Internet did when we watched a film. I don't know if it's because they don't understand the limitations of the medium, or if it's because the "I want every detail explained to me" crowd wants to find "plot holes" and inconsistencies.  Yesterday, for instance, I saw this question on Quora: Why does Leia not mention her family and friends, as well as her home, have been destroyed in the films? I wasn't going to write an answer, but I found myself so annoyed by the question that I ended up spending a good hour or so coming up with a rebuttal. Here is what I said: Why should Leia be constantly talking about the destruction of Alderaan a