As with ROTJ in general, I’d love to discard it, but I begrudgingly accept it if only because so much of the post-ROTJ EU I love can’t exist without it.
A very wise and fair point. But I like the Luke and Leia dynamic. They didn’t need to end up together no one is suggesting that it just seems incredibly lazy on Lucas’s part.
Like the father Vader thing in Empire, it wasn’t well thought out. Lucas just sloppily retcons things and makes things up as he goes. He can pretend omniscience and it was always planned. It’s in the purview of the author to play god, and make their story however they want it. He mostly got away with it on the originals, but ran into problems on the prequels.
You’d have a lot more people with issues if there wasn’t a cult of personality surrounding the perfection of Lucas canon and by the Extension the EU. It’s all perfect and there are no issues with continuity. That is the opinion of the religious devoted to their sacred texts. But everything Disney does is not canon and can’t be worthwhile because Lucas sold the farm. I sort of halfway believe in the control of the author over their own works, or an established consistent world within the framework of their secondary universe. But I dislike the idea of canon because it reminds me of the Gospel tradition and how we got our New Testament. Which gospels are canon. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.