Han Solo's relevance

Here I stand star wars is indeed continuing. I think they've finished filming force awakens. It's whatever it is and it'll hopefully work and bring star wars back to form.

The thing I was thinking about though was like, Han Solo's really a pointless character kinda in the grand scheme of the saga. I never would have thought, I mean I watched the originals as a kid and loved han solo, couldn't imagine star wars without him. But sadly, he's not in the prequels so there's nothing connecting him to that story. He only exists in episode 4, 5, and 6, and ultimately he's not super pivotal to those movie in the end. If they never met han, not the end of the universe, moving on... So yeah it's an interesting thought. We all love han solo, yeah, but when you look at the whole story including the prequels, his character doesn't matter that much. Which is potentially going to be fixed up in the new trilogy.

I don't know. Maybe they'll continue to not give a damn about Han's relevance to the story and just have him continue to be just Han Solo, hanging out in the movie, doing whatever he wants....

Supposedly Han's kids with Leia are going to become very important. That'd make Han Solo very important again... If he's the father of a new generation of great Jedi or something like that. Truth be told, yeah Han is going to get with Leia and his son or daughter will be an extremely powerful Jedi in the future. So yeah he will matter in the end.

Ultimately the only thing that truly matters about Han in the movies is his return to save Luke in ANH. That was the whole arc for his character. He's the rebel, he doesn't care, then he turns around and does care and helps save luke and they destroy the death star. That was the purpose of his character. After that, his continued inclusion in the series was actually not planned. In fact lucas was going to have him killed to add drama. Even back then they knew han didn't matter much beyond his story arc in ANH.

So what the hell is his purpose in TFA? I mean I don't give a damn, if I see Han Solo flying the millenium falcon all day, I'll take it. But still, it's about creating a good story here and Han truly has very little to do with the main plot of star wars.

I mean fucking like, the only real thing Han could provide is some sort of wisdom to the new guys. Truth be told, he's going to be teaching them about being a good space pilot and how the new republic works, and of course explain his adventures with Luke in the past to the new guys so they know Luke went though a lot as a young jedi... I don't know. When you see Han in the OT he's not one to be very instructive concerned with shit, he's just the smartass of the group who doesn't give a shit. Maybe he still is. I don't know. I've never really met smartass old men. They're usually in a position where they have no choice but to accept a lot of responsibility and actually do try to stand firm and be wise about things.