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Post #1218308

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NeverarGreat
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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Date created
20-Jun-2018, 3:48 PM

Since one of the big issues with TFA is how convenient everything is, I have an idea to eliminate one of these conveniences, which is conveniently during the Maz castle scenes.

Every version of TFA so far has Han being completely baffled as to why Maz would have his son’s lightsaber in her basement, and her explanation in that moment is ‘because shut up’. But if Han had been the one to give Maz his son’s lightsaber in the first place, it would eliminate the coincidence and actually give Maz a stronger characterization.

Consider that Han seems to trust Maz implicitly in all matters, so much so that he brings two fugitives and a wanted droid into a strange den of space pirates instead of having them wait safely on the ship. Maz has had a millennium to engender that trust, and she also knows quite a bit about the Jedi and the Force to boot, perhaps the only one outside of Luke and his friends that Han knows. If Han were to have somehow come into possession of Luke’s lightsaber, either by Luke finding it and giving it to him as an apology for letting his son turn to the dark side, or Han confronting Kylo and getting it that way, Han would probably have wanted to distance himself from this Jedi relic but would still want to honor Luke’s family heirloom enough that he would give it to someone he trusted completely.

The solution is simple - cut ‘Where did you get that’ and Maz’s retort.

Since I’m moving the revelation of Kylo as Han’s son to just after Maz’s castle, Han’s silence at the lightsaber could make the audience wonder why he finds this unremarkable, and hopefully they would put the pieces together themselves by the end of the battle.