There're a few people at my work who try to stump me with random Star Wars continuity questions each week. A recent one was about Leia's assertion that she remembers her mother when Luke asks her. I think Rebelscum's Question Mark column gives a provocative explanation for this:
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It was very clear in Return of the Jedi, Luke asks Leia what she remembers about her real mother; this would have to be Padm. Luke then goes on to state that he has no memory of his mother, that he never knew her. The skip in continuity is that at the at the end of Revenge of the Sith we see Padm hold Luke, but we never see her holding Leia. In keeping with the continuity, Leia should have been born first - held by Padm, and Luke should have been born second held by Obi-Wan as Padm dies. Big bummer, but it still fits better with what we know from ROTJ.
Years ago it was assumed that Leia's real mother was alive for at least a little while after Anakin fell to the dark side. She died when Leia was very young, but Leia was at least old enough to remember her. Obviously Luke didn't remember her because he was whisked away shortly after birth. The events in Revenge of the Sith slightly alter this assumption, but there's still room to explain that away if the continuity had been maintained. Even as a newborn, Leia being the daughter of a Jedi (the most powerful Jedi ever) could have gained a sense of her mother in the few short moments before her death. Had Leia been delivered first and held by Padm I think most fans would buy into that. The fact that she wasn't just makes it all that much harder to understand how she could have remembered her real mother all those years later. You know, it's all just a fairytale, in the greater scheme of things I suppose it really doesn't matter, but I'm sure a lot of fans would have appreciated it more if all the pieces fit together in the end.
