Would you be opposed to a romance between Han and Rey?

[Galvatron]

Assuming they're not related and both are single as of TFA, is there some reason why the legendary and dashing Han Solo, old as he may be now, can't have a May/December romance with Rey?

[lGrand Anhoop]

I don't think that would be sexy.
Plus, from the preview material, he and Leia are gonna be a seasoned couple who've been through stuff like Bill Buchanan and Whatsername, why ruin that? Rey ought to shag some hot guy instead - though if she remains unattainable instead, this will shoot the character into the stratosphere of impact.

[Adam Reynolds]

I strongly suspect that would be incest. Who other than his own daughter would he let fly the Millennium Falcon? So no.

In any case, I suspect she will have a romance with Oscar Issac's Poe, the dashing X-wing pilot that is the same age as her.

This oddly feels relevant here:

[lGrand Anhoop]

Assuming they're not related

Who other than his own daughter would he let fly the Millennium Falcon?

Though if it's gonna be a father and daughter thing, I might be on board.
/vote

[Galvatron]

They play down her looks in the movie, but Daisy Ridley is stunning in some of the candid photos I've seen of her.

I'm like Frito Pendejo on my recliner/toilet watching her cut me a piece.

[lGrand Anhoop]

"They play down her looks in the movie"
WAT? She looks SMOKING in tfa!

[Galvatron]

Yeah, but she's not all dolled up for a night at the club with Kim and Kanye. Hell, she doesn't even have that shiny bright red lipstick like Leia did in ANH that got me so worked up when I was a toddler.

[lGrand Anhoop]

Haha, that one actually doesn't look that great, but I'll maybe poast some hawt ones later

[The Romulan Republic]

I don't have any objection to a couple who are far apart in age. However, I see no reason for this, no reason to consider this, and a lot of reason to think that they are in fact related.

Edit: Besides, if I was going to sink to the level of arguing shipping on the internet, I'd go for Finn and Rey, just to piss off the racists.

[FaxModem1]

I'm against this solely for the fact that it leaves Leia in the lurch, especially as we see her in the previews. Unless you want to have Han pursuing Rey while Leia pursues Finn, though it would be a sort of gut punch every time I watch Empire Strikes Back.

[The Romulan Republic]

Well, is their any Star Wars fan who doesn't want Han and Leia (and Luke, for that matter) to get some kind of a happy ending?

[Galvatron]

I'm against this solely for the fact that it leaves Leia in the lurch, especially as we see her in the previews. Unless you want to have Han pursuing Rey while Leia pursues Finn, though it would be a sort of gut punch every time I watch Empire Strikes Back.

I'd treat it like they had their time together, will always love each other on some level, but ultimately wanted different things out of life. Like I said in an earlier thread...

Am I alone in thinking that Han and Leia should be divorced in Episode VII? It might actually give him back some of the edge he lost in ROTJ when he started acting all lovey-dovey and whipped. Hell, we might even get a Star Wars version of this scene:



Spare me the EU's Brady Bunch Family Man Han. That's not Han. Never was. Ford knew Han and he thought Han should die in ROTJ. That didn't happen so gimme Grizzled Old Scoundrel Han instead.

[Gandalf]

Maybe Leia could leave him for Lando?

[Galvatron]

I was thinking more along the lines of Leia being married to the cause while Han is married to the Falcon and his freedom to roam the galaxy.

[lGrand Anhoop]

Am I alone in thinking that Han and Leia should be divorced in Episode VII? It might actually give him back some of the edge he lost in ROTJ when he started acting all lovey-dovey and whipped.

That's a popular myth going around, that Solo was "pussy whipped" or generally "a good guy" in ROTJ. True, he's a full-blown rebel in that and hence not an enti-hero anymore, but he's still an asshole - even more of an asshole than before, going out of his way to be a dick at times. Maybe to compensate for not being a scoundrel anymore?

One could call him somewhat of a beta, if following that interpretation - trying to be edgy for attention, rather than just being who he is and not giving a fuck what others think.
The acting performance is often slighted for being alternately bored and tired, and overacting and grimacing.

But some wimpy pussy beggar, he was not.
Except maybe that last scene, that was.... yeah, that was a lame one.


But the problems in ROTJ don't mean he's only good as a scoundrel pirate - the ending of Empire showed that he could be great as a stoiic noble hero; in a very different way from Luke regardless, he could still retain some moral greyshadings and be his own man, only now serious and principled.

That'S where his arc was heading, after all - ROTJ screwed up the arc, not delivered it and showed why Solo should always have stayed the same.

It could've been great and what Empire set up, and that's what VII is going for from the looks of it.

Well, is their any Star Wars fan who doesn't want Han and Leia (and Luke, for that matter) to get some kind of a happy ending?

Pretty sure not, but I'd rather have had something tragic (in the real VI that was never made, or now in TFA), rather than some "divorce" resolution.



Anyway,






But also of course:

[Lord Revan]

We should also remeber that Harrison Ford isn't in his 30s anymore, Han Solo can't be the "don't give a damn about anyone but me!" scoundrel character anymore he's too old, however you you can have edge to his character it just has be done in different way.

That said even if Han and Rey aren't related, Han's role in the movie seems to be that of a mentor or sort of a father figure to the new cast so it doesn't seem thematically right for to be romantically linked with any of the new cast.

[Purple]

Anything that stands between the love due of Han and Leia can go jump into a lake of fire. And yes, this is a completely rational and not at all emotional response.

[Thanas]

This would be the worst on so many levels.....hack writing ahoy.

[Knife]

Indeed, the arc of Solo throughout the OT was he was selfish as a defense mechanism, he never got close to people so he didn't have to care. He had what he needed and damn the galaxy; except when he came across something that intrigued him, like Leia, or an infectious idealism of Luke.

The flight to Alderaan was all business, but by the end of SW IV he slipped up and gave a damn. By ESB he was throwing his defenses up back up and wanted to leave so he didn't have to care, but got stuck with Leia escaping the Imps, and started caring even more. By ROTJ, when his friends came for him, it sealed the deal in his 'conversion' if you will, where old selfish Han had accepted Luke and Leia even knowing their ideology was bigger than his small vision of the galaxy.

Now, it's entirely possible that Han and Leia broke up at some point, where his vision of family didn't meet with her vision of family. Some one said perhaps she was wedded to the cause and he eventually left, I can see that. But I doubt that would send him back to square one of old selfish Han.

[The Romulan Republic]

Indeed, the arc of Solo throughout the OT was he was selfish as a defense mechanism, he never got close to people so he didn't have to care. He had what he needed and damn the galaxy; except when he came across something that intrigued him, like Leia, or an infectious idealism of Luke.

The flight to Alderaan was all business, but by the end of SW IV he slipped up and gave a damn. By ESB he was throwing his defenses up back up and wanted to leave so he didn't have to care, but got stuck with Leia escaping the Imps, and started caring even more. By ROTJ, when his friends came for him, it sealed the deal in his 'conversion' if you will, where old selfish Han had accepted Luke and Leia even knowing their ideology was bigger than his small vision of the galaxy.

Now, it's entirely possible that Han and Leia broke up at some point, where his vision of family didn't meet with her vision of family. Some one said perhaps she was wedded to the cause and he eventually left, I can see that. But I doubt that would send him back to square one of old selfish Han.

Agreed. Resetting the status quo and trying to make OT Mk II would be a horrible mistake. I worry that they'll do just that a bit too much, in a bone-headed attempt to appease rabid OT fans, but in my opinion that would be dishonouring the OT by ignoring the changes it showed in the characters.

I don't want Han to be an asshole. However, I can see his and Leia's lives taking different directions, as others have discussed, not because of any lack of love and caring for one another, but because they have different skills and lifestyles.

Leia is a politician. A diplomat. A military leader. Han has some experience in the latter, but mostly he's a smuggler and pilot. I don't think he'd fit very well in the role of politician's spouse, for example. Or Jedi, obviously. I think he'd feel useless in such an environment, and might often take missions that would take him to far flung corners of the galaxy in the Falcon. Now, maybe they could do a long-distance relationship, going their separate ways and only occasionally meeting up. But maybe that wouldn't be enough for one or both of them.

[Knife]

Indeed, I can't even see Han going a Lando Calrissian route either, although their characters are supposed to be close in style and deed. Han doesn't need much, has a small vision and a small amount of needs. Doesn't have many friends but is loyal to a fault to those friends. A ship, a Wookie, a blaster, and a small circle of friends and he should be happy. If Leia spent a lot of time making the New Republic, yeah, I can see how that would sour their relationship. Han's overall involvement in the Alliance was very small scope with that small group of friends, even if the results were spectacular. So I can see why if the focus was shifted to large boring things, he'd make an exit for a 'simpler life'.

[Galvatron]

Don't get me wrong, I don't want TFA to show an absence of Han's further character development, but nor do I want him to be the "and they lived happily ever after" Han from the EU in which he seemed more like an accessory to Leia than a character in his own right. That Han just doesn't ring true to me.

The trailer really said it all to me. The Falcon is his home so home is wherever the Falcon takes him.

[The Romulan Republic]

Happily ever after doesn't automatically reduce Han to an accessory.

I'd rather like them to be together, if only because I hate "revert to the status quo" and I like the happy ending of RotJ. It would be interesting if Han and Leia had a long-distance relationship of sorts, though. Han's out flying around the galaxy, doing odd jobs for the Rebellion/Republic/Resistance that are more suited to his talents. Leia's back home on Coruscant or wherever else, running things. Every now and then they might hook up and revisit their old affair when they happen to be in the same place, but they aren't living together full time.

[Purple]

Don't get me wrong, I don't want TFA to show an absence of Han's further character development, but nor do I want him to be the "and they lived happily ever after" Han from the EU in which he seemed more like an accessory to Leia than a character in his own right. That Han just doesn't ring true to me.

Honestly I feel the exact opposite way. I feel that unless they get their "and they lived happily ever after" their entire character arc was for nothing. It would mean that instead of being true love their romance was just a passing thing. And that frankly shits all over everything established in the OT.

[Galvatron]

And you'd probably get to have that if they didn't put Han in this movie. You wouldn't have to see how people can change after 30 years and you could keep believing that Han and Leia didn't change a bit once the credits rolled in ROTJ.