Gaffer Tape said:Sometimes I wonder if Han couldn't have been used better for what he was. He was supposed to be the anti-hero of the first movie, and he did a pretty good job of that, but, of course, he redeemed himself at the end of the movie by saving Luke. Empire still had some of that. His original motivation was to get back to that, but it never really worked out. And, of course, in Return, they'd pretty much given up on his character moving at all. So, really, both the sequels wasted that character (as in, there's very little ambiguity in Empire and absolutely no development in Return) as it was originally conceived.
(But I still like what they did do with him in Empire, don't get me wrong)
I totally agree about ROTJ!Han. Both Leia and his character pretty much came to a screeching halt in that film, and to me, he's one of the weakest parts of the film. Certainly one of the biggest disappointments. He went back to square one in ROTJ instead of further developing as a character. I can't help but wonder what it would've been like if they had actually killed Han off in the film, as Harrison Ford suggested. That would've been really dark but really interesting as well. Especially the havoc it would wreak on Luke and Leia as characters.