Thanks for a better in depth review than a person can find without having to read and BUY things to understand the movie. Never had to do that with the originals and it's BS having to slog thru someone's writing style you don't like just to learn this stuff, than headcanon it.
Most fellow fans like me were just as disgusted with how Han & Leia were portrayed mainly Han, and Claudia was run thru the grist mill by DISNEY/LUCASFILM having to REWRITE the BOOK TO RETCON and make Han/Leia look BETTER than the movie showed. See Gray's interview with ColliderStudio on Youtube. Her deadlines were extended, SW8 stuff inserted & IMHO, because blowback from fans like us and focus groups BS made them want the earlier book version to mesh and make the movies SW7&8 line up. SWTFA could've told us and SHOWN us everything you feel so much better about Han&Leia but was makeshift after-the-fact cobbled together for the book being promoted SO HARD to fix their stupidity. It was MORE IMPORTANT TO SHOW SHINY SHIPS and Asplosions than focus on the old characters being written out.
Great for Han/Leia fans but that Luke is bopping around apart from his Force bonded twin & Han his BFF isn't very character based but they are trying to use EU holocron Sith temple stuff Luke is supposedly looking for to excuse Ben going so dark to shiv his Dad, versus just being a resentful angsty young man angry he was lied to for years.
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Bloodlines review comments by megancyber
Date: 2016-05-17 12:03 pm (UTC)Most fellow fans like me were just as disgusted with how Han & Leia were portrayed mainly Han, and Claudia was run thru the grist mill by DISNEY/LUCASFILM having to REWRITE the BOOK TO RETCON and make Han/Leia look BETTER than the movie showed. See Gray's interview with ColliderStudio on Youtube. Her deadlines were extended, SW8 stuff inserted & IMHO, because blowback from fans like us and focus groups BS made them want the earlier book version to mesh and make the movies SW7&8 line up. SWTFA could've told us and SHOWN us everything you feel so much better about Han&Leia but was makeshift after-the-fact cobbled together for the book being promoted SO HARD to fix their stupidity. It was MORE IMPORTANT TO SHOW SHINY SHIPS and Asplosions than focus on the old characters being written out.
Great for Han/Leia fans but that Luke is bopping around apart from his Force bonded twin & Han his BFF isn't very character based but they are trying to use EU holocron Sith temple stuff Luke is supposedly looking for to excuse Ben going so dark to shiv his Dad, versus just being a resentful angsty young man angry he was lied to for years.