Vaderisnothayden said:

General question for anyone on this thread, does this life debt thing mean we're to assume Chewie wasn't genuinely emotionally attached to Han and just stuck with him due to this life debt?

In the movies, I totally know Chewie genuinly loved Han and the gang. Their relationship was clearly partners and pals (dare I say, chums?) in Star Wars, and Chewie was clearly part of the 'family' in Empire and Jedi.

Which is why the lifedebt thing is so irritating. It's not needed. I seems to exist just because someone said 'there's no way a man and a space monkey could be equal partners and friends. How can I easily a) explain how the monkey is in fact subservient, and b) explain how the monkey sticks around instead of going off to pick space bananas'

If Chewie has a lifedebt, and still loves Han and the crew, that has a wierd undertone of old Hollywood and the old black slave/housekeeper who deeply loved the family they worked for.