YMMV / The Han Solo Trilogy

• Base-Breaking Character: Bria Tharen is either a flawed and interesting character in her own right, or an annoying Author Self-Insert who only couldn't end up with Han because Canon said so.
• Fridge Logic:
  • Why didn't Darth Vader sense Han in the closet when he strangled Greelanx? Or assuming he did, why let him go? Wild Mass Guess: He probably did sense him, and let Han go to bear witness to what happened to traitors. After all, if he didn't have someone listening there was little reason to bother with the charade of acting like Greelanx had betrayed the Empire, when in fact he'd been ordered to lose (the Hutt bribe was just unrelated icing on the cake).
  • So apparently the Imperial IDs only use retinal patterns? They also don't even use photos (or whatever) and so after Han gets his retinas surgically altered no one's the wiser as to his criminal past, meaning he can freely go into the Imperial Academy. No one notices that "Han Solo" had no ID prior to this apparently. Not only don't they use actual pictures of the person, but no DNA or fingerprints either. Yeah, maybe they can change those too. It would make things harder assuming IDs actually used pictures and other biometrics though. It also makes little sense to just do a system-wide check on someone's ID when you know they come from another solar system. The galaxy is vast, after all.
  • Boba Fett has one of the galaxy's best intelligence networks, but can't find out Renn Tharen's name so he has to ask Han? This seems pretty odd. It wasn't a secret who Bria's father was-he's even a prominent merchant. All that seems like a contrived method for drama. Or it may be an excuse to get Han delivering the message that Bria's dead instead of him, since at least he knows Renn, and cared about her. Fett may be showing a soft side and his respect for Bria here.
• Funny Moments:
  • Han's repeated (failed) attempts to get a Wookiee to leave him alone. The Wookiee refuses to do so, because Han saved his life. Naturally, it turns out to be Han's future Heterosexual Life-Partner, Chewbacca.
  • When Han is forced to put in at Alderaan for repairs, the first transmission he receives is a recorded welcome video from Bail Organa, holding his young daughter in his lap. Think about it for a minute...
• Harsher in Hindsight: Go here.
• Nightmare Fuel: Han overhearing Greelanx getting Force-choked by Vader for accepting a bribe and throwing the battle of Nar Shaddaa.
• Strawman Has a Point: After learning that Han uses aliases plus his past as a con artist, Bria's mother and brother are insistent about him not being trustworthy. Her brother wants to call the authorities. Bria and her father both insist he's changed, and she owes her freedom from slavery to them. They're right, but really her mother and brother aren't being unreasonable (even if their initial reason for disliking Han — because he's too working class for Bria in their view — is shallow and snobbish). How are they to know that he has changed, and his rescue of Bria wasn't a scam too?
• Tear Jerker:
  • Bria's farewell letter to Han in the first book, and his reaction to it.
  • Jarik's deathbed confession to Han that he lied to him about his name and was never related to him at all. Han says he always knew, though it doesn't matter and he's more than earned the name, and makes damn sure his death certificate reads Jarik Solo.