(Title works better if you pronounce 'Han' the way Billy Dee Williams does.)
"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!"
“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.
"Um, Actually" Han didn't know she was there until they already got there
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.
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.
First time hearing this. Believable, but link please?
Thanks
"Yeah, so then I fired up my jet thrusters and roasted those fools." -R2, probably
I feel like Han was an even greater hero as he stuck around to help the rebels while Luke went off to hang out with a muppet in a swamp.
Whose scruffy looking now?
Huh. Didn't know that about R2 - that little droid has been literally everywhere.
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.
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.
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.
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