Let me try to articulate why this contrivance bothers me.
It’s certainly possible that a lightsaber would end up in Maz’s castle, but it’s like Qui-gon picking the one place on all of Tattooine that has the part he needs to fix the ship while also being the one place where the ‘chosen one’ is hanging out. Sure, you could easily say that ‘the Force told him where to go’ but it feels too coincidental. The One Ring is able to choose who finds or loses it to some extent, but that’s because it contains much of Sauron’s very SOUL. A lightsaber is merely a weapon, not a horcrux. Could Rey sense it when it was in the basement like Luke sensed the evil emanating from the tree? Sure. Whatever. That’s not at issue.
The issue is the coincidental placement of both Rey and the lightsaber on the same planet as each other IN THE FIRST PLACE. Here are some other places that the lightsaber could have ended up, all of which are equally possible:
-Lost in the depths of Cloud City
-Lost on Bespin
-Scavenged from Bespin and secretly held by a local on the planet’s surface
-Scavenged from Cloud City and held by the Ugnaughts or incinerated by them
-Recovered by the Empire from Cloud City and held on Coruscant
-Recovered by Vader on Cloud City and held by him on his Star Destroyer, which was subsequently destroyed.
-Recovered by any number of scavengers or antiquities merchants and held by them on any number of obscure worlds.
Now include in the probability calculation how many places Han could have taken Rey to get a clean ship:
-One of dozens of inhabited worlds with a spaceport or even containing just a single bar.
So if we accept the given situation where Han was simply taking Rey to any suitable world that had a ‘clean’ ship, the probability is vanishingly small that she would have found this lightsaber. THAT is my problem with it, not the idea that it is tainted with the memories of its owners.
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Then don’t. I get that you aren’t bothered by all the same things in this film that bother me, and that’s perfectly fine. I just like overthinking things. If you’ve had too much of that on this forum, perhaps consider taking a breather for a while? I dunno.