ray_afraid said:

About Han... everyone realizes that people change, right? That people grow up and mature and "settle down" and leave their wild pasts behind them? To keep Han the same character we met in Star Wars seems to discredit the characters arc. I don't wanna see a Han who is still an wild, free and reckless 30 years latter. I'm probably alone on that though.

I agree with that too. Very much so, in fact. I enjoyed that aspect of Indy IV and I enjoyed that aspect of Luke & Mara through the Zahn novels. Because I've also aged 35 years along with our heroes, I expect to see them much changed.

I'm not the 15-year-old I was when I sat in the theater in 1977, so I don't want our heroes to be the same either. However, I have no interest in seeing a story where Han is a fatherly figure while we follow his hot shot kids around. There are other ways to address the passage of time.

He can mature and age the way we were told Lando had changed when we were first introduced to him. I guess my reluctance to see him at all is because he became completely uninteresting after he was so emasculated by Lucas. He went from cold-blooded killer in a bar - to an aw-shucks good guy much too quickly. It was very poor writing on Lucas' part.