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First off, I'm one of the people who watched the movie Serenity and thought to myself afterwards, "Isn't this a tv show?" And then I watched the entire series. Loved the whole thing.
That said, never once in all of the shows or the film did I think Mal was Han Solo. When I think of the characters, I personally do not connect them as being related. Nor do I see Mal as being the better version of Han. However, there are similarities between Han and Mal now that I think about it. Both had a military background, both captain a ship. Yet Han had only one partner, Chewbacca, and he got into a serious relationship with Leia. Plus he found a cause and joined it wholeheartedly.
Mal, on the other hand, started with a cause and fell out of it. He has a crew, and he has a responsibility to his crew. The longer we know him, the dicier things get for him. In a way, he's kind of like Han Solo when everything goes wrong. He left the military and never found the Alliance. He never scored the princess. No kids, no Jedi ties. No hero status. Just a person trying to get by.
But that's not what happened to Han Solo, and it's not what was meant to happen to Han, nor was it the fate that should have happened to Han. Han Solo is not a grim character in a grim world. Han Solo is the ordinary guy that's just a little shady, who gets the opportunity to be someone better and pulls it off most of the time. He gives people hope. He's a winner.
Mal just breaks even.
For me, Han Solo is an iconic character, and though he has been written by a lot of authors in a lot of ways, I still like his character overall. If you put Han Solo against Mal, I'll choose neither one. They are two completely different characters, two completely different stories. I enjoy them both equally.
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