So far as "'Star Words' was created to provide positivity towards George Lucas's writing" goes, I'm pretty sure he does have a screenwriting credit at the end of Return of the Jedi (although I can't turn to the movie myself right now to check) and understand he had to write at least one early draft of The Empire Strikes Back after Leigh Brackett's death; Lawrence Kasdan may have been more of a "dialogue polisher" than many assume nowadays.
Otherwise, not that long ago I began considering this particular scene myself as showing Han was already well-changed from A New Hope (although that might get to countering the tut-tutting that "he has no room for character growth left in RotJ, so obviously those rumours Harrison Ford was irate his character wasn't being killed off must be valid"). I suppose there could be a question as to why he hadn't tried to pay off his debt in between movies (the old Marvel comics did offer an explanation there right away, though), and have got to wondering a bit to what extent I saw his "having to leave" as "not being able to come back" (to say nothing of "the risk of giving the secret base's location away") before starting to think the "heated exchanges between Han and Leia" sprang from something a bit different.
Anyway, it is nice to be getting back to the saga.
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Date: 2019-12-26 11:01 pm (UTC)Otherwise, not that long ago I began considering this particular scene myself as showing Han was already well-changed from A New Hope (although that might get to countering the tut-tutting that "he has no room for character growth left in RotJ, so obviously those rumours Harrison Ford was irate his character wasn't being killed off must be valid"). I suppose there could be a question as to why he hadn't tried to pay off his debt in between movies (the old Marvel comics did offer an explanation there right away, though), and have got to wondering a bit to what extent I saw his "having to leave" as "not being able to come back" (to say nothing of "the risk of giving the secret base's location away") before starting to think the "heated exchanges between Han and Leia" sprang from something a bit different.
Anyway, it is nice to be getting back to the saga.