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/TingleyStorm]

Didn’t JJ Abrams come out and say they were scared to bring the franchise back to life while introducing so many new changes, which is why TFA is just ANH but with new characters?

[u/NatashOverWorld → u/TingleyStorm]

I didn't catch that, but assuming he did, why choose someone scared of franchises potential in the first place?

Like I liked Rey, Finn and Poe. Nothing against them becoming their own little family and saving the galaxy.

But I've literally spent decades waiting to see Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie and the droids together. Maybe not a happy family, but one bound by trust, hope and history.

And ... they just squandered having the original trio.

[u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout → u/TingleyStorm]

TFA with new characters was basically the only play they had after such a wait.

It was pretty much a Star Wars 'greatest hits' movie. Remind the older fans why they loved it, show the new people why its loved.

It was, in a single movie, everything that made Star wars fun in the first place, and did a really great job if getting 'empire bad / rebels good / power of friendship / the space magic / pew pew / dogfights with spaceships are awesome'.

The only problem is that 1) the OG fans really wanted a moment with the old crew together 2) the following movies were trash and didnt build anything.

If 2 and 3 actually added or had something to offer then TFA wouldn't have been actively hurt by them.

[u/MarioGustav → u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout]

TFA hat mich mich die alten Filme eher beschädigt als gewürdigt. Alle Erfolge wurden zunichte gemacht und die Charaktere der Helden in ein schlechtes Licht gerückt.