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| Life Is The Path wrote: |
| And about Han being handcuffed to Leia. I just don't see it that way. Much in the way I didn't see Chewie being handcuffed to Han. They were a double act. Where one goes, the other does, too. And I liked him in Solo Command. He was fighting the chains that were placed on him, when he became a general, but never shook them off, instead doing his duty effectively. |
Chewbacca doesn't go everywhere with Han. He's with Leia for a great deal of the Thrawn trilogy, has his own subplot in the Black Fleet trilogy, is with the Solo children in the Corellian trilogy, and also protects the Solo children off-screen entirely in the Hand of Thrawn duology. So I find it odd that Han and Leia are attached at the hip in LOTF/FOTJ when even Chewbacca, who had a life debt to Han, didn't spend nearly as much time with him. Han and Leia spent a healthy amount of time apart in NJO, because they had lives outside of each other. And the writers weren't so heavily reliant upon the Jedi for their stories that they could have Han do stuff that didn't involve Jedi. But then, they even had Leia doing stuff not involving the Jedi! Somehow, they managed this.
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| As for Jedi not being the fulcrum of TTT: that was pretty much because Luke was the 'only' Jedi around at the time. You can hardly have Jedi popping up everywhere in a time when it was said he's the only one. But, even then, there were still variations. Luuke and Joruus were twisted forms of Dark Jedi; and Mara, well, it's Mara! So even then, when there were very few who could be called Jedi, the Jedi way still played a prominent role. |
It's fine if Jedi or the "Jedi way" play a prominent role in a story. But since Del Rey took over, they pretty much have dominated every story, to the exclusion of pretty much any non-Jedi character being consider a "main character." The only way they've kept Han as a "main character" in FOTJ is by having him attached to Leia at the hip, otherwise he would have absolutely nothing to do in the series. Why else would Han be involved in
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a Jedi coup?
And how about the Hand of Thrawn duology, which had no Dark Jedi or dark side threat at all? And had Luke's Jedi Order fully established? Unless people here hate that too?
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Mara Jade! 