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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3292454" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes.  And?  It isn't like providers of transport have ever made a regular habit of asking after the moral state of their passengers when not required to do so by government.  Or are now all bus and taxi drivers neutral for failing to check on the possible crimes of their fares?Because I'm being asked to showhorn him into a morality system that really isn't designed to describe him, for one thing.  For another, because I find such a rapid change of heart to be implausible.  Character gwoth is one thing, the leapoard changing his spots is another.While I'll vote for really good at start, I've already stated that him being neutral at start (and end) is plausible.  The action of the movie takes place over the course of a couple days , and while Han has andventures in that time, he does not suffer any events that should stike at his heart such that it would plausible change.Now, growing romance with Leia and exposure to others who are more altruistic, I'll buy as life-changing.  By the end of the movie series, he can be good.  But I don't see a full flop by the end of the first film.Mind you, I'm also of the opinion that (in strictly D&D terms) Vader doesn't do enough to make a turnaround either.  Sure, he sacrifices himself, but only for his own son, after slaying how many?  It isn't as if he's rededicated himself to altruism in that one act.  The space-opera movie morality just doesn't fit with the D&D system too well.</blockquote>

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