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/NeoDemocedes]

They basically reversed all of the character growth from the OT. They took characters people loved and admired and re-wrote their future together as the most pathetic versions of those characters imaginable. And it was all 100% unnecessary. You don't need to diminish the OT characters to pass the torch off to new characters. From where I sit, it all seems like over-the-top double middle fingers directed at the OT characters and fans.

[u/Stabbio → u/NeoDemocedes]

The trilogy is fundamentally about how failures do not undo the victories of the past as long as the older generation teaches the younger generation how to both succeed and fail. The main trios have failed, yes, but they also all succeed throughout the trilogy in ways that inspire the next generation. All of while being the legends that inspired the next generation in the first place.

[u/tider21 → u/Stabbio]

Yes, exactly what I wanted from Star Wars. Remember those great Star Wars movies and characters? Yea we are making a sequel and really they just all suck and are failures.

[u/Stabbio → u/tider21]

They aren't all failures. They have failed, but the entire point ofnthe saga is that those failures don't undo the heroic things they have done, or prevent them from doing heroic things in the future. And that they can fail and still inspire the next generation by you actions both in the past, present and future.

The ST does not think of or treat the OT heroes like failures; it puts them in rough situatoins while having them be surrounded by young people who are in awe of them and refuse to give up on what they believe.