>>96033722
Han Solo is fundamentally incompatible with the core theme of Star Wars, and it has nothing to do with lightsabers. The climax of the story of the films is Luke's recognition that he and his father are essentially the same, with only the slightest hair's breadth dividing them, and Vader realising the same thing is what spurs his own redemption.

Han Solo is antithetical to this. The character himself exists in stark opposition to everything Lucas was saying in the films, as is the case for everyone in the Rebellion. Rather than a sign of corruption, Han can murder people in cold blood, Chewbacca can tear off people's arms, because they're sacrificing their own morality for a higher cause. He stains his hands and damn himself, and it's heroic because he's fighting for the future - When a major message of the films is to always be mindful of the present, rather than do everything for a future that doesn't exist.

And just look at Chewbacca. Of everyone, he comes the closest to the core theme, of recognizing that he and the people that have labeled him as a savage alien may in fact be one and the same, but at the very moment of that realization he just mauls Imperials like a dog, not the slightest catharsis, actualization, or atonement. It would be like if Luke just cut off Vader's head, and never found out that the two were father and son.

Han Solo is an absolute betrayal.