{"id":10128,"date":"2016-01-01T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/01\/01\/jonathanlarscn-the-thing-that-makes-me-really\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T21:53:25","slug":"jonathanlarscn-the-thing-that-makes-me-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/01\/01\/jonathanlarscn-the-thing-that-makes-me-really\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jonathanlarscn.tumblr.com\/post\/136092040188\">jonathanlarscn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the thing that makes me really appreciate the whole\u00a0\u201ci love you\u201d \/\u00a0\u201ci know\u201d exchange in the empire strikes back is that, this whole time, han has been urging leia for some sign of affection, of validation, in terms of his feelings for her. han has made it clear that he likes her, but leia has been hiding or denying her affection towards him almost entirely. i think the reason han is so forward about it is that he hopes this will get her to admit it, not because he\u2019s vain but because he needs his own feelings to be validated. after they kiss, he\u2019s very outwardly affectionate, taking and holding her hand often, kissing her on the forehead, as if he\u2019s purposely being somewhat obvious to make sure she notices, to test the waters, to see if she wants him to be as affectionate as he does. but even through all of his demonstrative behavior, leia is still pretty distant.<\/p>\n<p>so in this crucial moment, she realizes that she\u2019s never fully admitted how she feels, and that he needs to know. it\u2019s not so much a\u00a0\u201cthis could be my last chance to say it\u201d moment, but a\u00a0\u201cthis could be your last chance to hear it\u201d moment. it\u2019s true and she knows it, but she says it for him. she says it because she sees that he has to finally hear it. so his\u00a0\u201ci know\u201d response isn\u2019t cocky, it\u2019s reassuring. it\u2019s telling her not to be worried, because even though she\u2019s never told him, han has always known.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jonathanlarscn: the thing that makes me really appreciate the whole\u00a0\u201ci love you\u201d \/\u00a0\u201ci know\u201d exchange in the empire strikes back is that, this whole time, han has been urging leia for some sign of affection, of validation, in terms of his feelings for her. han has made it clear that he likes her, but leia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/01\/01\/jonathanlarscn-the-thing-that-makes-me-really\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[591,73,3558,3559,3414,768],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cries","tag-cute","tag-han-solo","tag-leia","tag-star-wars","tag-yes-good","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}