Oh, I forgot to mention ...
Apr. 17th, 2016 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveThis past week I saw the junior novelization of The Force Awakens while grocery shopping. I didn't buy it, but I decided to see how they wrote the critical climatic part. To my surprise, it's different from both the adult novelization and the movie itself....
There is no fall off the bridge. Han is run through on the bridge and he stays on the bridge and definitely dies.
Were they following an earlier draft of the script? Did they just want to make sure that the kids knew for sure that Han was dead?
I don't know; I find it very strange that it contradicts the movie itself. So I just have to wonder once again ... is there any hope that Han really isn't dead? With the fall from the bridge and no impact, we really don't know. Kylo Ren stabbed him in the shoulder and not lower in the chest, and we didn't actually see him die from it....
One other intriguing thing about the kids' book is that it's actually fairly deep. There's even a section from Chewbacca's POV about Han's death. It was heartbreaking. And so fascinating. I don't remember any of the adult books getting into Chewbacca's POV. Not that I've read many of them, but some of those I have read feature Han and Chewie pretty prominently, and I really don't recall any Chewie POV.
There is no fall off the bridge. Han is run through on the bridge and he stays on the bridge and definitely dies.
Were they following an earlier draft of the script? Did they just want to make sure that the kids knew for sure that Han was dead?
I don't know; I find it very strange that it contradicts the movie itself. So I just have to wonder once again ... is there any hope that Han really isn't dead? With the fall from the bridge and no impact, we really don't know. Kylo Ren stabbed him in the shoulder and not lower in the chest, and we didn't actually see him die from it....
One other intriguing thing about the kids' book is that it's actually fairly deep. There's even a section from Chewbacca's POV about Han's death. It was heartbreaking. And so fascinating. I don't remember any of the adult books getting into Chewbacca's POV. Not that I've read many of them, but some of those I have read feature Han and Chewie pretty prominently, and I really don't recall any Chewie POV.
