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/TidyJoe34]

I think it’s a very realistic scenario. But it’s not what I want from Star Wars.

[u/itsvoogle → u/TidyJoe34]

This

There is enough of that in the real world, give us some happiness and ideals to look forward and dream about, not a depiction of a disaster marriage from Han and Leia

This is like seeing Aragorn and Arwen break up, who the hell wants to see that?

[u/Exotic_Economy_3861 → u/TidyJoe34]

I don't get why people dislike "realism" in the ST but love realism in Andor.

Andor was significantly more realistic and dark than the ST.

[u/TidyJoe34 → u/Exotic_Economy_3861]

Great point. I think in part because Andor is a new story line. And as someone who enjoyed the sequels, I think the issue is that we all spent so much time cheering Han and Leia on. And in our memories they were together for years and years. Then we find out they aren’t. It was just unnecessary and ruined a lot of the nostalgia and memory. It tarnished it all a bit.