Thinking about it further after I wrote it, I realized why I originally liked The Force Awakens and looked past all the stuff about it being a remake. It was the interactions of the new characters with Han. Despite everything else, that was a new dynamic. Han was back to being a smuggler again unfortunately, but now he was a believer in the Force and he took something closer to a mentor role. I’m sure Harrison Ford and Lawrence Kasdan and the rest were chomping at the bit to kill him off, but that was a big mistake. Not because you can’t kill characters or I think Han should be invincible, but because it took away one of the main things they had going for them. It’s no coincidence that the one scene everyone likes in Rise of Skywalker is when Kylo has a vision of his dad.