A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 1997 Del Rey Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Pros:  The novels capture the essence of Han and Chewbacca in their pre-Rebellion days Cons:  No Darth Vader, no Empire, no Princess Leia or Luke One of the first things I noticed the first time I listened to National Public Radio's  Star Wars: The Radio Drama  was how Brian Daley had fleshed out the role of Han Solo; starting with the episode titled  The Millennium Falcon Deal , the Corellian with a starship for hire not only was faithful to the character played on-screen by Harrison Ford, but he was more intense and conflicted, especially in his dealings with the galactic underworld. Indeed, Han seemed to be Daley's favorite character to write for, since the writer often gave him some of the best lines in the 13-part adaptation of  Star Wars  (a.k.a. Episode IV:  A New Hope ). That Han and his Wookiee co-pilot/first mate got such a cornucopia of good material in the three Daley-scripted Radio Dramas shouldn't