Some people never watched MASH and it shows.
Stuff they avoided telling us about Han Solo
- Thread starter FredH
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HA! One of my favorite episodes had Hawkeye going crazy trying to find out what B.J. stood for!
Because Disney Lucasfilm had unnecessarily changed his backstory. One of the few aspects of "Solo" I didn't like.
What backstory did we know?
Last I checked only the films counted and there's concept art of Han being in ROTS.
Last I checked only the films counted and there's concept art of Han being in ROTS.
And after all of that, we never did find out.HA! One of my favorite episodes had Hawkeye going crazy trying to find out what B.J. stood for!
Is it clear? Do we know the truth or do we only know the story Han told himself or what someone else told him?
Han: "This is a Corellian YT-1300."
Lando: "Oh. You know your stuff."
Han: "I've been on one before. My dad worked the line at the CEC plant before he got laid off. He built these. He wanted to be a pilot, but..."
Lando: "You, uh, close with your old man?"
Han: "Not really."
I think that's all we need, really. He wasn't close with his old man and he considers himself to be alone; clearly, there's bad blood there that he probably doesn't want to talk about, nor does he want to associate with his father's name.
Lando: "Oh. You know your stuff."
Han: "I've been on one before. My dad worked the line at the CEC plant before he got laid off. He built these. He wanted to be a pilot, but..."
Lando: "You, uh, close with your old man?"
Han: "Not really."
I think that's all we need, really. He wasn't close with his old man and he considers himself to be alone; clearly, there's bad blood there that he probably doesn't want to talk about, nor does he want to associate with his father's name.
Given Han's age and the assumed time he's been a street rat, his father working for CEC would have been before the Clone Wars, and possibly during the Clone Wars, depending on if he was laid off by the Empire, or prior to the war and Han's falling out with his father somehow related to the war (mind you Han was a child during the war, being something like ten years old when the war ended).
*insert concept art of young Han Solo in ROTS.*
It was the dumbest thing in a movie full of dumb crap.
At the very least, Han should have come up with it himself, not be given it by some extremely low level bureaucrat.
But he seems utterly perplexed just by the question, like it never even occurred to him that last names even exist.
He's also running for his life and lost his girlfriend. He might be excused for having a lapse in cognitive function.
But what was the writer's excuse?
That the character was scared, flustered, bereft and joining the Empire out of desperation, having been given the idea 30 seconds earlier, and that it therefore makes perfect sense.
See below.
People do stupid shit all the time, especially young people, and doubly so if panicked. Despite the wonderful belief that I see many have being cool, calm, and collected takes work and practice and doesn't just happen.
No, it was a horrible, horrible scene from top to bottom.
Besides, I don't think anyone has ever been so flustered in history as to forget the concept of last names.
That's why it's probably a trauma response.
