ST So now that Han is gone, shouldn't Chewie's life debt..

That would probably be a complicated issue for Chewie though. He would have almost certainly been very close to Ben Solo and protective of him. He probably thinks of him like a nephew.

 

Plus we don't know what Leia's view on it will be. I still kind of think that she won't completely give up on her son, and certainly not want him dead.

 

This.

Are Wookie life debts even canon? I wouldn't be surprised if it's an element used in the Han Solo Anthology film, but still we don't even know what a life debt entails in current canon.

 

Yes, its canon: Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know

 

This excites me. We could have Leia wanting to talk down her son ala Han, and we could have Luke training Rey to put down Ren once and for all. Putting aside his disappointment and grief to do what needs to be done, regardless of the family connection. He confronted his father in combat, after all, completely willing to kill him if required. So Luke and Leia could be at odds over how they approach Ren, which is juicy material indeed.

 

no life debt is ever mentioned in the movies. There is no life debt.

 

Still canon according to Aftermath, Phantom Menace, and EYNTK.

 

It is in TPM, true, but I don't have to like it.

 

If we have to keep it, then I prefer the idea than Han "released" Chewie from it years ago. But Chewie stuck around because he and Han are practically "brothers" now, they've been so close for so long.

 

And if that's our canonical idea of a life debt, than it means literally nothing, as Jar Jar does absolutely Zero to really help or protect Qui-Gon, and his life is perfectly fine after Qui-Gon dies.

 

Screw Jar-Jar.

Yes and I'd prefer if in this reality Chewie doesn't have a wife and kid that he leaves alone because he feels indebted to Han.

 

Ugh, I hate this idea of life debt. Chewe and Han were family, this idea of a master-servant type relationship just destroys the love and friendship they had for each other.

 

Chewie is also a loyal friend of Leia and Luke, and now Rey.

 

Agreed.

 

Yousa have the life play with thissen hissen?

 

Go away Jar Jar, this mess was your fault to begin with.

 

Wow. The amount of close mindedness on here is rather despicable sometimes. Please stop applying your contemporary western ideologies to everything. A life debt can mean so many other things than simple indentured servitude. If the lowly Gungans can have enough honor to practice repaying their debt to someone, surely the noble wookiees could as well.

 

Exactly. We don't know what it means to a Wookie. What is clear in the movies is Han and Chewie are family, that they are loyal and dedicated to one another and nowhere does it come off like Han is exploiting or using Chewie in any way.

 

Personally, I disregard everything that isn't in the movies, and in the case of the PT, I dismiss much of it (regardless of what Disney's official statement entailed). Lucas' trash writing in the PT painted the narrative into a number of corners that I think could be gracefully ignored going forward. When it comes to things like midichlorians, prophecies, chosen ones, life-debts, I'd rather ST writers just blow right past them as though they never happened. I'd rather the current writers just think of what we know from the PT as a vague recollection - where the major events did occur - but the little ham-fisted details can be forgotten.

 

life debts should be payed once you save the one you owe it too (which chewie do a thousand times over).. otherwise it is just indentured servitude..

 

The only thing close to a life debt being mentioned in the movies is by Boss Nass. I don't remember Chewie having a life-debt ever being canonical.

 

If Chewies life-debt is actually canon, based on their characters it would make sense that Chewie felt he had a life-debt, but Han would long ago have considered it paid, not even something owed. Han loved Chewie as his best friend, and vice versa. Whatever life-debt Chewie thinks he owes is only what his own personal feelings obligate him to continue to owe to Han (and Hans family). Since Kylo Ren killed Han, I'm pretty sure this life debt is canceled.

 

**** off they were called Lumpy and Lowie.....no way...lmao

 

Meh... Not in a movie I dont care

 

I always saw the life debt more of a sort of adoption bond rather than some a sort of indenture. A serious point of honor for wookies, but only if the bond is respected by both parties. Anyway I thought this was far and away Peter Mayhew's best performance as Chewie, simply because he did so much in this particular movie and often acted as the emotional anchor for the film. He had perhaps his two best moments out of any Star Wars movie, with the possible exception of "Laugh it up fuzzball" in ESB. "Yes, I do. Always!" and "Oh, you're cold?".