Alderaan said:
Remember Han telling Chewie to take care of her after he was gone in Empire? How the fuck did that get missed?! That’s just another bullshit example of Disney trying to force new characters on us. They want to pass the torch from Leia to Rey, and that’s fine. I’m all down for that. But make it happen naturally in the fucking story universe. Don’t give us a lazy, incompetent plot, and then just put two characters together at the end who don’t even know each other.That was three decades ago, in a very, very different situation. When he said that she was a prisoner of Vader in Cloud City and Luke was running into a trap. It was a moment of great hopelessness.
Thirty years later in TFA Leia is general, and I don’t think she needs a Wookiee to follow her around while all the time at this point, especially now that she’s surrounded by hundreds of soldiers 24/7. Also Han came “back-to-life” in ROTJ so I think that “deal” stopped counting then.
You’re forgiven for not actually reading my absurdly long post. The topic wasn’t some guardianship debt or other; it was the utter disregarding of friendship ties between Leia and Chewie specifically regarding what would certainly have been a sharing of grief over Han’s death. Chewbacca and Leia loved Han more than anyone else did, and the movie just completely blanked on what without question would have been a strong bond - unless we hear later from Leia something like “yeah, I never actually liked Chewie, I just hung out with him because of Han” which would be FUCKING AWFUL.