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Originally Posted by OneOut
Thought it might be Chewbacca instead of Han that bit it, but it makes sense that's probably the only way he'd get Harrison to return because he wanted Lucas to kill him off in Jedi.
Ford is a good bit older than Fisher and Hamill too. By the time Episode IX films he'd be almost 80. Did he have to die? Maybe not. But since Star Wars is going to continue forever into the endless future it seems, I also don't want Star Wars to become endless fan service where just watch the same heros doing battle in wheel chairs, or alternatively, where you never get that gut punched by never having the beloved heros die.
So I think there was just a natural pressure to conclude Han's story because Ford is like, old, and similarly, it made for some palatable drama and pain for the audience.
I do agree with the criticism that at points, Abram's made decisions that make Kylo Ren look weak, but a point in "Kylo Ren is a bad bad dude" favor is that he iced his dad, just like that, light saber to the gut or whatever. That should set up nicely either his eventual redemption ("look how bad he was, and look how far from the depths of evil he came!") or even just his continued credibility as a bad guy.
So killing off good guys shouldn't just be to sucker punch the audience, THAT'S a cheap decision. So killing Chewie or Han should have some other meaning. Like in this case, it builds the villain. I think Abrams decision to have his Dark Side villain son kill him builds up the Kylo Ren character.
Last edited by DVaut1; 12-18-2015 at 07:07 PM.