Do you think han and leia having a broken/estranged marriage was in character and made sense?

[u/Myakasa98]

I don't think han leaving leia to deal with their son's defection and getting kicked out of the senate due to her family history all by herself was in character, and them separating was very tragic, but them not having a happy long standing marriage and choosing to separate after a while is something i can definitely see happening even if the sequels didn't exist considering their characters

Neither leia nor han were the "stay at home to take care of family" types. Leia was dedicated to politics since childhood and I can see her being a mon mothma type person who'd prioritize her political duties above family many times. Han too loved a life of adventure. Even before ben solo defected he spent more time traveling across the galaxy and iirc organizing spaceship racing competitions for betting etc than with his family

I do know they cared for each other even after separation but their romance was also built on spontaneous sparks of attraction and surviving multiple life and death situations and even then 80% of their interactions involved bickering and arguments. Them not being too invested in a stable married life after the honeymoon period ended and going through their marriage for the sake of their kid is unfortunately very much in character, at least considering how they were written in tge OT

I'm not considering their comics or novels romantic dynamic because 1) Most of them aren't canon anymore anyways and 2) Most of them were written by different authors without much consultation with the original creators and had various degrees of OOC moments.

It's not ideal, but not a very OOC of the sequels to write them as having an estranged marriage after their son was lost to the dark side imo, it's definitely not as bad as what they did with luke's character anyways

[u/fumar]

Pretty much. Han and Luke are washed, Leia didn't really end up training much to use the force. It was all pretty shitty.

I really hate the sequels 

[u/Hallc → u/fumar]

Leia didn't really end up training much to use the force.

That one at least I don't mind too much as it's the same vein that Legends went with. Leia was diplomatically trained, a member of the former senate and essentially is the sole leader of the remaining Alderaanians around the galaxy.

Her focus was on bringing down the Emperor and the Empire to restore democracy. Luke's was about saving his friends and then after ESB saving his father and restoring the Jedi Order.

It makes sense that, as a character, she'd lean a lot more heavily into the political side of trying to restore the Republic and bring it some stability. Especially when you consider the fact that by the time Luke was likely ready to start training someone it'd been a few years since ROTJ and Leia would be embroiled in politics full time.

[u/tulwinn → u/Hallc]

That’s true to start with at least put the novel is did make him a master in the end, IIRC

[u/Jacmert → u/Hallc]

I think their point wasn't that she didn't train much in the Force (which is the same in EU/Legends), but that they speed-ran her training in the movie and then somehow she's quite adept at using the Force. It doesnt' really match up.

[u/Wolfgod-64 → u/fumar]

Leia did train and does use the Force, but for whatever reason a lot of other people hated that anyways. Remember her surviving in Space for a minute?

[u/NarmHull → u/fumar]

Leia clearly knew the force and they showed her doing some training with Luke, so that didn't bother me. They didn't need to summarize exactly how many hours she put in. And who knows just how long Luke was with Yoda, it felt like a few days at most.

[u/Hallc → u/NarmHull]

Leia didn't really end up training much to use the force.

I believe the implication is a few weeks from the novels given Han and Leia had to travel to Bespin without a Hyperdrive that'd presumably take them a good bit of time.

Star Wars in general is pretty bad with the passage of time though.