Mavericks said:
For me being an ardent Han/Leia fan (I'm sort of romantic mood, ya know) "The Courtship of Princess Leia" as a crying nonsense is like spit in my face. Zero understanding of personalities of both characters, huge EMOTIONAL inconsistency with their love story arc we saw in ESB and ROTJ (I mean, c'mon, how could Leia, who risked her life to rescue Solo - that dashing scoundrel she fell in love with and who she shared so many ups and downs with - even think of possibility to marry another man. She was made into really disdainful bitch here. And seriously, we're talking about HARRISON FORD! How many women would prefer some polished dude "prince Isolder" over FORD?!)
Yeah, this aspect of the novel is just so goddamn stupid (too bad the various guidebooks never let on just how stupid this plot was -- I may have had the good sense to ignore reading the book altogether).
Another one also regards the EU crap about Solo him "discovering" his noble ancestry. WTF!!! So in order to justify his pretensions to marry Leia (who, remember, confessed her love in the worst possible situation that could ever happen!) some authors decided to bear this out by tying up this to some class-conscious way of thinking. What a shit! Integrity of her character and her strong moral values and principles (of which loyalty to the single man she would choose as her lover is a main one, I suppose) by no means makes this possible: neither political considerations nor social prejudices was no matter for her to be with Han, be it a simple liaison or a legal marriage. The fact of Solo's ordinary origins even makes their relations even more romantic and sensitive.
It's funny, actually -- later stories that focus on Han ignore this backstory completely, establishing instead that Han is an orphan with no memory of his parents and only one known relative (who certainly isn't royalty).
If only the people running the EU for the last thirteen or so years would have been so bold as to throw out blatantly stupid additions to the universe that don't work. *cough*JediPrinceSeries*cough*
Screw the EU!!!!!! Hope it dies. FOREVER!
Okay, now you're just being silly ...