Anyway, when Han thinks Leia is in danger (after the speeder bike chase), he is worried, but doesn't do anything crazy that would imperil them all; he keeps his head.
That's debatable. He's General Solo by then, and his mission is to lead a group of rebels to destroy the Death Star's shield generator. If the group fails, the Rebel Fleet will be in big, big trouble, and the entire attack -- which might mean the ultimate defeat of the Alliance -- will go down the drain. Going after his girlfriend could have easily imperiled all the rebels and destroyed their mission; they were captured by the locals after all, and were about to be barbecued. Judging by Han and Luke's reactions when they were first surrounded by the Ewoks, they didn't really know what kind of danger the local population could represent to them. What if they had found an army of human-eating giants instead? They were lucky that things worked out for the best, and that meeting the Ewoks was what ended up giving them the victory.
I had this discussion once about Luke, because he also agreed to leave the group of rebels and temporarily forget the mission so he could search for his sister. (Or was it his own suggestion? I can't remember right now.) About Luke it can be said that he might have foreseen the wisdom of that arguable choice, somehow sensing that the path to victory passed through that place in the forest where they would find invaluable allies. Han's case is a little harder to defend, IMHO.
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That's debatable. He's General Solo by then, and his mission is to lead a group of rebels to destroy the Death Star's shield generator. If the group fails, the Rebel Fleet will be in big, big trouble, and the entire attack -- which might mean the ultimate defeat of the Alliance -- will go down the drain. Going after his girlfriend could have easily imperiled all the rebels and destroyed their mission; they were captured by the locals after all, and were about to be barbecued. Judging by Han and Luke's reactions when they were first surrounded by the Ewoks, they didn't really know what kind of danger the local population could represent to them. What if they had found an army of human-eating giants instead? They were lucky that things worked out for the best, and that meeting the Ewoks was what ended up giving them the victory.
I had this discussion once about Luke, because he also agreed to leave the group of rebels and temporarily forget the mission so he could search for his sister. (Or was it his own suggestion? I can't remember right now.) About Luke it can be said that he might have foreseen the wisdom of that arguable choice, somehow sensing that the path to victory passed through that place in the forest where they would find invaluable allies. Han's case is a little harder to defend, IMHO.
The scene in which Han agrees (with no second thoughts) to look for Leia reminds of the scene in AotC in which Padmé falls from that ship and Anakin tries to get the pilot to go back after her; Obi-Wan orders the ship to go ahead with its mission, saying that this is what Padmé would want. I don't think Leia and her mother would be very different in that regard.