I have a friend who loves Star Wars, he loves the OT, is in 'really like' if not love with the PT, and has tons of action figures and posters and stuff... but he's not too much into the EU. Not even Thrawn Trilogy. His chief complaint about the Thrawn Trilogy is the character of Mara Jade, whom I consider to be a highpoint. He thinks it's too ridiculous that this character would have been in the subtext of the OT the whole time and never seen or mentioned.

My answer was mostly along the lines of "I want Luke to find someone who can be his equal and with whom he can be happy... If not someone like Mara Jade, then who?"

He gave me an answer to that question, but I wanted to ask you as well, fellow OT.com'ers. In your minds, after RotJ:

1. Does Luke dedicate his life to the Jedi order and become celibate like a monk?
2. Is he some kind of space pimp/James Bond character that is too dedicated to his life's work to settle down, but catches some action from time to time as the mission allows?
3. Or does he get to have a wife and kids?

If #3, then what kind of woman can he call equal? Does she have to be a Jedi to stand shoulder to shoulder with him? Or are there other "separate but equal" qualities she could have?

Give me your thoughts!