Rey Solo

Leia doesn't say that. It's the voice of the author foreshadowing what is to come for Leia.

 

Leia is coming to the bittersweet realization that her life isn't the idyllic arrangement she hoped for; they were never going to have that because of who they are.
but they stay together and keep working at it because they're not going to throw their love away just because they have busy schedules.

it's only Ben's fall that finally breaks them apart. that's the great grief of their life.

 

you are taking Leia's line too literally. in TFA she tells Han that in hindsight that she realizes that by sending Ben away she broke up their family before they even knew they were broken. she's saying maybe if she hadn't sent Ben away, they could have protected him--or at least they would have been together when he fell.

her grief is about not being there for Ben when he needed her the most. it's why she literally breaks down sobbing at the end of the book.
she has put her career ahead of her son for all these years and now she knows it's coming back to bite her.
it's her saving grace in the novel, frankly.
she realizes that she has made a huge irrevocable error in her parenting.
with Ben. not with some imaginary other child for whom we have zero evidence.

 

they're not grief-stricken, they're self-absorbed.

kinda exactly just like the son they raised.

 

now you're starting to understand the true problem of what's gone wrong in this family.

 

it's very sad. why do you think so many of us are on the #SaveBenSolo train?

Leia and Han didn't mean to do this. it's something that happened. just like Lor Tekka said to Ren on Jakku.

now it's up to all of them to fix it.

 

Exactly - everything we see take place in the ST is as much the fault of the former heroes as it is down to Snoke. The new republic failed to learn from the mistakes of the past. Han and Leia failed as parents. Luke failed in his training of Ben. As Lucas always said, the ST would be about the difficulty in building the new republic and maintaining the peace. Without this "sad story" there wouldn't be a ST. The heroes had to be taken down a peg or two for evil to be able to rise once again.

 

If there was this (fabricated) tragedy you speak of that is sooo important to Han and Leia then why did they write bloodline the way they did? If there was a story so integral to the main plot why not wait and tell that story after the release of TLJ? It would be a story more relevant and one that would probably draw a larger audience. (I'm not knocking bloodline I'm currently reading and enjoying it.)

It just doesn't add up. The hints at such a tragedy are so small and contrite anyway that the average movie goer (which is the vast majority) would completely miss the references, thus alienating a large portion of the audience. Its a great, imaginative and well thought out theory that would be brilliant as a fanfic but it just doesn't work with the main source material. The amount of plot holes are astonishing and there is no evidence to support it only conjecture.

 

Ben Solo took it for a joyride and lost it. Han got mega pissed at him and lashed out. This was the final straw for Leia and she decided to send him to Luke.

See, we can all write trashy fanfic to suit our theories.

 

you forgot the part where Ben did it to impress the two twin twi'leks he had aboard. : o p

 

Spoiler alert!!

 

I'm only halfway through bloodline so I can't comment but the content of bloodline is superfluous to the argument anyway. It won't have any effect on the main plotline of the movies.

The purpose of the EU is to flesh out the stories that have or are already being told in the main saga, not to reveal information or key plot points that aren't alluded to in the source material. They are effectively 'bonus features' now, nothing more.