So I recently saw The Force Awakens and I can just tell you right off the bat that it was great. I loved it, and you should too. Okay so maybe not that second part but I personally enjoyed it a lot. So I am going to assume that most of you reading this will have seen the movie already so I will not be giving a synopsis here, if you want one look it up and then come back, or not, you really don't need to. So anyways long story short the most important part of the movie, even though I know it wasn't meant to be, was when Han died at the hand of his own son. He tires to sway Kylo to come back with him and live a live in the light. Apparently Kylo is a super good actor because his little sob story about how he doesn't know how to live a life of anything other than evil totally fools Han. He then proceeds so impale him with his awesome inverted cross lightsaber.
Han caresses Kylo's face before falling down the huge ass pit that was conveniently there. I wanted to insert a gif of this happening but the movie is too new for any picture let alone gifs to be out so I will show you how me and every other diehard fan of Star Wars felt once this had gone down.
To say the least we were not fine.
So I am sure there are at least a few hopefuls that thought that at the end of the movie or maybe later in the next few movies that will be coming out, Han would magically reappear alive and well. I was kind of hoping so too. But once I got home I had an epiphany. There is no way that he could cannonly come back. And no it's not because he was impaled with a lightsaber or that there is no place in the story for that to happen because his death was part of the reason Ray was able to accept the force, no it's because of the pit.
"The pit?" I hear you all saying. Yes the pit. If you have ever noticed but most important deaths of main characters always happen conveniently around a pit. Everyone thought that Annikin was dead but no he was imply burned alive by lava, that is apparently survivable, but falling down a pit is not. I will show you example if you are still skeptical.
Darth Maul
So Darth Maul was arguably the best thing in the atrocity that was The Phantom Menace, besides Qui-Gon Jinn. He was and has been one of the coolest evil people in all of the series, but now that Kylo has come around, he has some competition. But anyways he fall victim to Obi Wan's rage after Maul kills Qui-Gon *cri.* It's a pretty cool death, he gets cut in half and then... falls down a pit. Does he come back? No. Need more? I'll give you more.
Emperor Palpatine
Palatine who is one of the only three/four (if you count Vader/Anakin) characters to appear in both the original trilogy and the prequels. He is the only one that is evil in both, and as you can see, the longer you are evil, the more creepy you look.
Like seriously look how creepy he looks compared to how he used to look.
Anyways, Vader desides to save Luke from old lighting hands by throwing him down a... you guessed it pit. I mean this one is the one that I can see an argument against my theory for. Palpatine doesn't really have a chance to come back because the movie ends like 5 minutes later but still.
Boba Fett
So this is probably the least exciting death, which is kinds sad for Boba Fett because people seems to love Boba. Han literally is still temporarily blind after coming out of the carbonite and he accidentally shoots Boba Fett and he falls into the Sarlack pit. This is the farthest stretch as far the term pit goes in the post. But the word "pit" is in the name so I am going to stick it in here.
So long story short, in the Star Wars universe pits = your favorite important characters who fell into them are not coming back. And that should include Han. I am sure there are a few other characters that have also suffered the pit fate that I haven't listed here because I couldn't remember them. But I think that these three deaths are enough to at least make you consider my theory.
So goodbye Han, I wish it has been Luke and not you because he is a little bitch and you were so much better but that is a rant for another day.
Also side note, Mark Hammel was the second person listed in the credits and he was literally in the movie for like five minutes and he doesn't even speak. He just stands on the top of the big hill and stares at Ray and the lightsaber. WTF.
