Originally Posted by
godisawesome
I think there’s even more nuance and chaos here - I think Lucas 100% approved the Luke and Mara marriage at the time from his business side, while rejecting it in his own mind as a creator, but largely because Luke is something of his idealized author avatar dedicated to a cause, while some of his “no attachments” ruling on the PT was also like that… but also soemthing eh and no problem de facto ignoring when he wanted to (like his plans fo Assaj Ventress and Quinlan Voss, and the always sort of contradictory nature of Anakin’s redemption.)
Lucas the businessman recognized that his company’s literary side hustles would benefit immensely from Luke getting hitched - because, objectively, a married Luke with kids is far more immediately profitable as a concept and not actually enough of a creative problem. To deny it - much like why eventually EVERY Star Wars creator eventually developed an area where they want a Jedi to have an attachment and ignore their reasons for not doing it earlier.
But yeah, Lucas the perfectionist, semi-control freak creator didn’t want “his” Luke married for personal and creative reasons.
On another note, as much as the idea of that worthless shit-stain Ben Solo, coasting wholly and only on the privilege of his race, gender, and family history breeding another kid off screen annoys me… but I could stand it if we tapped down the in-universe hypocritical bullshit pretending this hypothetical kid was deprived of a good father or that Rey should want to raise her assaulter’s kid, and maybe had Rey work out some shit from the ST.
Imagine how much better the situation is if Rey finds Ben’s kid with someone who hid their child from him because he was clearly brainwashed and diabolical, but Rey has to struggle with some paranoia and trauma from having her will stripped away by Snoke/Palpatine into caring for Kylo, giving her some further issues on top of wanting to give the Skywalker family back something.