ST If Solo and Skywalker Kids Are Used, Which Ones Should Be?

What happens if rumors are true that the next generation of the Skywalker and Solo family are the main heroes in the new trilogy and serve as the protagonists? If this is true who should be the family members the original ones already in the EU, someone completely different, or a combination of something both?

 

Sounds like a great discussion for the Official Sequel Trilogy/Expanded Universe thread! Seeya there!

 

The more I think about it, the more I think Luke should not have married or had children - at least not older children. I feel like in the earliest days after the death of the Emperor, his number one priority was to reestablish the Jedi Order to "pass on" what he had learned. This should probably have taken great personal effort and time, enough to where I family would've prevented this. Leia and Han should be the parents if there must be offspring of the Skywalker line. Making them twins harkens back and parallels the PT/OT and could work, and would allow for Luke to train a new generation of 'Skywalker,' despite their name not really being Skywalker.

 

If you got rid of the options regarding the EU, this would be a decent poll.

 

Well in the EU, he did spend a good amount of time reestablishing the Order and then he married Mara.

Well it's just a thread devoted entirely to the Skywalker/Solo children exclusively, surely that can't be locked?

As for my two cents on the topic, I think the children featured should be Jaina/Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker. Do they have to follow EU characterization/appearance/history? I'm indifferent really. If by some odd miracle they do, then I'll be most impressed, if they want to do something new with the characterization to suit the story better then fine. I believe they could continue that sort of dynamic Luke, Han and Leia had and it would be great! As for why they should be maintained, I think the hardcore fans deserve a little fan service and that people who casually glance over the EU won't miss details about the more famous kids like the three I've mentioned. Truth be told, I do not really care much for Anakin Solo, he never really did anything great IMO and was just killed off so people don't get confused by the two Anakin's in that world.

 

No kids for Luke. I really don't care about meeting his wife, introducing her, etc... The audience for this are people who only know the films, not the novels.

The kids don't have to have the name Skywalker to be Skywalkers. That's like arguing because Leia uses the name Organa or Solo, or if her children take their father's name, that they aren't 'real' Skywalkers as much as Luke or any of his children would be. If you have the kids not be the children of Han and Leia, it's kind of insulting that Leia's pedigree isn't worth as much as Luke's just because of some bizarre franchise logic of the kids having to be called 'Skywalker'. Having the last name 'Solo' doesn't negate the fact that their grandfather is still Anakin Skywalker just as much as Luke's offspring would be. Also, giving Luke all the 'important' kids just is a slap in the face to the entire romantic plotline between Han and Leia and makes them utterly superfluous to the story. Why even have them there at all, then? The OT never treated Han and Leia as lesser characters who don't matter.

In fact, having them 'hiding' under the name Solo would make them much less of a target if it got out who Darth Vader was once upon a time. Likewise, if Leia Organa perhaps kept her ancestry secret for the sake of her political career. You can imagine contention between her and Luke if she perhaps went as far as to not advertise that Luke was even her twin brother in order to not draw unwanted attention to her own parentage. By having the children under a different name, it might also be part of an effort to keep their heritage identities secret on purpose. It would protect them not only politically within the New Republic, but also keep old Imperialists from targeting Darth Vader's grandchildren for their own ends.

I'm incredibly fond of the idea of the Solo kids being a boy and girl set of fraternal twins. I would absolutely love it if the ST mirrored the OT in that regard. And it's the perfect amount of family members to introduce without the numbers of new characters getting ridiculous. You need to fill out the rest of the new arrivals with completely unrelated characters, one of which might serve as a love interest. The series doesn't need any further incest kink, no matter how accidental! LOL. And I would absolutely draw the line at two kids tops from both Skywalkers and Solos combined (preferably Solos). It's one thing in novels to develop a big brood of kids, another for a trilogy of 2-hour films. There simply isn't space for more than two OT offspring to develop without getting overcrowded. The roles filled by Mara Jade, Anakin and Ben (whether those names remain or not) are thus superfluous and need to be cut for time.

Everyone assumes Han and Leia got together and had kids. There were three films that spent a significant amount of time developing just that. Leave Luke as a dedicated Jedi teacher who wants to teach his niece and nephew.

I personally can't see Leia choosing the life of a Jedi, especially if it meant giving up Han. Have her choose love instead, as well as perhaps being uncomfortable with her heritage (note that she was personally tortured by her father, not to mention Han was--plus being frozen--as well), and have Luke choose the ways of the force and being more acknowledging of who his father was. Luke grew up with an aunt and uncle, but never really had anyone he knew as a mother and father, whereas Leia had very different circumstances with her adopted family that she might even prefer to consider hers since they raised her and a way to honor their deaths.

Luke was always the one who was searching for a family he never knew, whereas Leia had a family she considered hers and wasn't really searching for any 'real' father. I very much see Leia choosing Han as her 'family' (and Luke as her brother non-publicly) over the Force and the heritage of Anakin Skywalker. I can see her acknowledging it privately for Luke's sake, but less so for her father's. Luke is the shining example of compassion and forgiveness, but that's not quite as prominent in Leia's character. Another reason she might be choosing to avoid getting in too deep with the Force, as she perhaps might be scared of it. She's actually more like her father than Luke is and that's a strong reason why she might reject training beyond the sense abilities she inherently already had unknowingly.

 

I will be so happy if Luke has no kids.

 

Not ready for more kids in Star Wars after the debacle that was TPM.

 

They way I see it, it's more "kids" as in "descendants", not necessarily 9 year olds with mushroom hairdos.

 

But there is already a thread for this...


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