tbh a lot of audiences, not just kids really under-appreciate this about Lando but t's sort of why he's my fav character
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he's the only one for whom joining the Rebels is a meaningful choice
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Luke joins up specifically because he has nothing at all to lose anymore
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Han joins up specifically as a choice to have a cause other than hollow self interest
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Leia has apparently been joined up her whole life
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but Lando actually gives up something
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he also throws himself into the rebellion pretty wholeheartedly when he joins: remember he's a General by the Battle of Endor
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it's the thing that bugged me the most about the EU: Han settles down, and Lando becomes the "next big score" guy. It's BS
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I liked that oddly elegiac piece abt how Ep VII puts the trilogy in the context of endless grinding war
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and how oddly hopeful it was that Lando just isn't there
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everyone else is trapped in their roles forever but Lando got out, they decided they'd asked enough of him and let him be
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