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First off, I really want to reinforce that I appreciated Charles Soule coming on the show and sharing his perspective, so my appreciation of @Wtforceshow's counterpoints was because getting a wider perspective made things even better. https://twitter.com/Wtforceshow/status/1273608402241978368
When the interview first came out, and when Soule was discussing Star Wars as a tragedy, I wanted to touch on how the EU actually did lean heavily into this, but it wasn't easy to wrap my head around it.
The problem is, I don't think the EU's view of Star Wars as tragedy was an intentional choice, it was the consequence of continually putting out content centered on Han, Luke, and Leia, at the expense of moving forward.
The only way to provide stakes for the same characters is to continually add more challenges to those same characters, and this is how we end up with dead Chewbacca, two dead Solo children, and Luke losing a wife.
So when the EU casts a shadow on the "new" continuity, the problem is that an accidental emergent theme starts to dominate the destiny of the main story.
What's interesting is that as a person in my forties, I am from the same age range as Terrio & Soule, & I did spend a lot of time in the EU, but at some point, it did start to feel a lot more like vaguely Star Wars flavored product instead of actual logical Star Wars progression.
Ironically, the Dark Horse Legacy comic was more interesting to me because it fully moved away from the "trinity" being the focus, to a whole new generation, and incorporated things like the Vong redemption and a new dominant Force tradition that wasn't Jedi or Sith.
I wanted to point out that people often mention Star Wars, after the "Legends" designation, as "new" canon, and that's not true. Lucas never, at any time, considered the EU canon, and did what he felt made sense for the components he introduced.
He occasionally pulled in good ideas from the EU, but those elements were often significantly changed when placed in context of what he was doing.
I can't help but think of this in terms of the DC universe, both in terms of pulling concepts from previous continuities into a new storyline, and the New 52 concept of "everybody in DC has a tragic story."
Not only do you need to let story concepts evolve into the new native canon (for example, the Mandalorians), but you also need to see that in broad storytelling, you can't fit everyone into the same paradigm (not everyone at DC needs to be Batman).
Some character stories are a tragedy, some are not. Honestly, after what we saw in Solo, I'm still upset we didn't get more of an explicit connection between Han and Ben both being convinced they weren't good and fighting against being good.
