Quote (fuzzy159 @ Jan 8 2016 07:38am)
That was a small thing about the film that bothered me. They kind of downplayed the reaction to Han's death...sort of.
To be fair though Han was the only father figure Rey has ever had and Leia felt her pain. It makes a lot more sense to humanize the main character of the new trilogy who has actual speaking roles over a man in a suit that growls.
Honestly Leia going to Rey made a lot of sense once you think about the fact that they are both force sensitive. Feeling Hans death and then feeling the pain Rey was probably emitting pretty strongly would have connected the two in a way no one else could experience.