I don't remember when I made those points mentioned by Kev, but I certainly have (as well as others), several times over the years. I will say, however, that the Lando\Han backstory - while definitely the least amateur of the story shrinking loops - could have been a little more inventive. I've always felt it was way too convenient.

Han & Leia out in the vastness of the universe and - oh, look, we're right by a planet that just happens to have an old friend of mine on it, who just happens to be the guy who used to own the Falcon. To me, it would be instantly more credible if they would have searched out the guy specifically to seek his help.

As it's handled, it just serves to shrink the universe even more. No matter how endless the universe is, every character seems to constantly be bumping into someone they know or are related to.

Fuck, man - 18 years ago I moved back to the city I grew up in and I haven't even come remotely close to running across as many people from my past as the Star Wars characters regularly do, and they have the vastness of space to move around in. Please.

That said; Two years ago, while I was in Barcelona, I found myself standing at a bus stop next to a guy I had worked with in Houston 5 years earlier. That was kind of weird.

Of course, had it been a Lucas-written story, we would have stopped a few miles later, just by chance picked up his sister, all gotten off at the next stop, which was a factory run by her long lost step father, who happened to be the former next door neighbor of the bus driver, who turned out to be the college roommate of the person who started the bus company.