Han Solo is someone who thinks he’s invincible. When he’s Han Solo the smuggler, when he’s Han Solo the Captain of the Millennium Falcon, he’s invincible. He always talks his way out of things. He always puts up a fight. That’s the Han Solo that we as the audience knows, Han Solo who is tough and suave and practically untouchable. But Han Solo the father isn’t invincible. Han Solo the father can’t put up a fight against his son, he can only be vulnerable and try to reach out to Ben with love, and he can’t be charming or deceitful in that moment, he can only be honest. But he couldn’t talk himself out of that one, and in the end he didn’t die being a war hero, of the captain of a spaceship, or a risk-taking smuggler. He died being a father.