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Han is the man (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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(Title works better if you pronounce 'Han' the way Billy Dee Williams does.)

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a great example of why you should introduce new characters when you want to fill in backstory. It's one thing for your established characters to make an appearance, but Star Wars even over does THAT. What Jedi hasn't lost a fight to Vader and survived in the decades between RoS and ANH?

At this point it's more like one established but admittedly evil government failing to stop 6 guys with a truck for 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's very Dickensian. Everyone is connected to everyone else in some way or other. In a vast galaxy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, it's not unreasonable to assume that pretty much all Jedi/Sith knew all the other Jedi or Sith. The absolute height of force users in the galaxy is only around 22,000 split 10,000/10,000/2,000 Jedi/Sith/Revanite. That two fucking families ended up spawning the majority of force users for a period of about 100 years seems unreasonable to me, but I'm not Lucas's ex-wife, and she seems to be the main force for storyboarding episodes 4 and 5.

Honestly I think Anakin finding out about Darth Nox/Oculus would have been a much more interesting way for him to fall. Darth Plagius is too straightforward to make his fall interesting and complex.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

The number of jedi that didn't die in order 66 is increasing at a pretty surprising rate. A few more shows and the jedi order could have been restored without help from Luke.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"SERIOUSLY, WHERE DO I KNOW YOU FROM‽"

"YOU DON'T!"

"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, YOU HAVE LITERALLY ALL OF MY FORMER ACQUAINTANCES WITH YOU SAVE MY PADAWAN!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Han needed to have Starkiller hidden in a smuggling compartment, and Juno on standby for emergency extraction.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Um, Actually” Han didn’t turn up with Vader’s daughter, he came to rescue her from her father who had just obliterated her foster parents.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Um, Actually" Han didn't know she was there until they already got there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You totally win that point! And to anyone who hasn’t watched Dropout TV’s “Um, Actually” and enjoyed this thread, you’re going to love that show.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just a reminder that George Lucas’s headcanon for the initial 6 movies involves R2-D2 embellishing its role in these stories in the distant future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

First time hearing this. Believable, but link please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"Yeah, so then I fired up my jet thrusters and roasted those fools." -R2, probably

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whose scruffy looking now?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh. Didn't know that about R2 - that little droid has been literally everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

R2 technically wasn't his astromech, but he and Obi-Wan certainly utilized R2's abilities multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh ok. I think Wookieepedia disagrees, maybe:

Amidala gave R2-D2 to [Anakin] Skywalker when he became a Jedi Knight, and the astromech droid faithfully served him throughout the war, often flying in the droid socket of Skywalker's starfighter or fighting next to him on the front lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, fair enough, I thought he was just on loan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How about we let him be his own bot and not endorse the cruel and sadistic slavery and hatred shown towards droids by Jedi and all others alike.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my headcanon the droids are actually cybernetic shells for the brains of captured living creatures. They have had their memories wipe, but aspects of their personalities show up.

R2 has no mouth, but he must scream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But he can scream

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's be real, if we wanna talk about possessiveness, Anakin was R2's bodyguard more than R2 was Anakin's droid

Little astromech is in absolute control

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok new conspiracy theory r2 is the true main character of star wars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Learning that Im finding the idea of a sort of secret narrator to be quite a intriguing idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Especially if you consider R2 as unreliable narrator that would explain his antics in Episode 1, 2 and 3.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's official canon it was in your moms room last night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Considering my mum is into bdsm I can see how r2 is scared of her

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And yet, Han shot first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Confirmed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Han is the mahn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The easiest answer is that Vader is just looking for death, subconsciously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The easiest answer is that Vader is just looking for death, subconsciously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tbh, I never really got the idea of the millenium falcon.

It's essentially one of these lorries some redneck modified into a jet truck dragster. These things are fast, but not agile and maneuverable at all, and they still don't compete at all against vehicles that are purpouse-bult for speed/agility by real engineers in big corporations with large budgets.

Can't tell me, that planet-sized ship building corporations which exist in Star Wars with their near-infinite budget can't put together anything that's faster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has powerful main engines, powerful maneuvering thrusters, and sturdy contruction. Without cargo it can move fast, be agile, and handle lots of force from rapid changes in direction.

It is the right vehicle to be used in the wrong way and perform splendidly with the right pilot.

Nobody makes anything faster because there is no sense in doing so just to catch that one guy. They build ships for a purpose and chasing down one scruffy looking nerf-herder isn't profitable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So there is no speedracing scene?

No big empires that want propaganda weapons?

No companies who want the marketing ploy of "We make the fastest ship"?

There's no practical reason why any car company would build a car that can go beyond 150km/h either, yet every car manufacturer has their sports/hyper car brand to show off.

There's no practical reason for nascar, Formula 1 or the land speed record either.

Yet all of that exists and all of that gets really nice funding.

They've got an empire that builds moon-sized space stations for propaganda reasons, but doesn't build the fastest and most maneuverable dogfighter?

It makes no sense to build a death star either. It unless you factor propaganda in.

Kinda like Dubai has hyper cars for their police. There's no practical reason for that either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Firepower, speed, cost. Normally, pick 2 (if you're a military group, hobbies, racer, whatever) but a smuggler has a good reason to pick 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Grandpa!