I love Stover's ROTS novelization as well! Among other things, it gave me one of my core ideas about Anakin, namely that he always thought of the child he and Padme were expecting as a daughter, and wanted it that way. (Anakin was so much my favorite along with Mara Jade for a long time, even though the PT was poorly executed. And then the reboot gave me like a dozen other characters I love as much, and, yeah, that includes his grandson.)
And, yeah, we definitely have different ideas of a happy ending to begin with! As I said elsethread, one of the things I come up with is how the characters have the "oh thank goodness you don't want kids either!" conversation, which is, as you say, on a different side from each other just to begin with.
On a side note, I don't know where you are with liking fic as well as canon, but irnan wrote some amazing "happy Skywalker family" fic ranging from through the PT to what's now Legends. (Here's the link to their tag for SW fic--- I don't think they still write in the fandom any more, but thought I'd share.)
Also they wouldn’t have the burden of being heroes or great expectations.
And here is another big difference in our approaches, because I find it impossible to believe that people would not be looking at the children of heroes and expecting those kids to surpass them--- the expectations would actually be worse for it being (supposedly) a world their parents had saved. "Oh, look, you don't have to go through all the hardships your parents faced! Now be more awesome than they are, have all the accomplishments and none of the flaws!" (Outside of Star Wars, the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold does a great job with this dynamic, IMO--- the kid whose parents saved the world is looking for ways to live up to and surpass that in his own personal idiom. Another good one for that is Mike Shepard's Kris Longknife series, with the added plus of it being a female protag, and while the first books center on her living male ancestors' legacies, later books have some awesome female ancestors for her as well.)
Not to mention that I'm enough of a casual history nerd that I'm looking at the end of both ROTJ and TROS and going, "Okay, you won the war, now how are you going to win the peace?" (Aaaaand then I deleted a whole bunch of TL;DR about Lando Calrissian as the post-TROS head of galactic government, lol.)
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Date: 2021-09-17 04:17 am (UTC)I love Stover's ROTS novelization as well! Among other things, it gave me one of my core ideas about Anakin, namely that he always thought of the child he and Padme were expecting as a daughter, and wanted it that way. (Anakin was so much my favorite along with Mara Jade for a long time, even though the PT was poorly executed. And then the reboot gave me like a dozen other characters I love as much, and, yeah, that includes his grandson.)
And, yeah, we definitely have different ideas of a happy ending to begin with! As I said elsethread, one of the things I come up with is how the characters have the "oh thank goodness you don't want kids either!" conversation, which is, as you say, on a different side from each other just to begin with.
On a side note, I don't know where you are with liking fic as well as canon, but
And here is another big difference in our approaches, because I find it impossible to believe that people would not be looking at the children of heroes and expecting those kids to surpass them--- the expectations would actually be worse for it being (supposedly) a world their parents had saved. "Oh, look, you don't have to go through all the hardships your parents faced! Now be more awesome than they are, have all the accomplishments and none of the flaws!" (Outside of Star Wars, the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold does a great job with this dynamic, IMO--- the kid whose parents saved the world is looking for ways to live up to and surpass that in his own personal idiom. Another good one for that is Mike Shepard's Kris Longknife series, with the added plus of it being a female protag, and while the first books center on her living male ancestors' legacies, later books have some awesome female ancestors for her as well.)
Not to mention that I'm enough of a casual history nerd that I'm looking at the end of both ROTJ and TROS and going, "Okay, you won the war, now how are you going to win the peace?" (Aaaaand then I deleted a whole bunch of TL;DR about Lando Calrissian as the post-TROS head of galactic government, lol.)