Actually, the plan was for a young Han to appear in Revenge of Sith! There’s concept art of him in my Revenge of the Sith book! But I think gradually it was decided to just leave him out of it, which was IMO the right decision
(Chewie is in it, though.)
No but actually forreal can we talk about how Han reacts to Rey?
This scrappy kid from a desert planet in the back of beyond, all bright eyed and so eager you can practically see her tail wagging. Hopeful and brilliant and shining, believing in fairy tales, believing in righteous causes, in armies of Light and Dark, in happy endings.
Like Maz says: you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people. He’s seen her eyes before. And he’s seen what happens to bright, scrappy kids from the back of beyond who volunteer for big adventures in wide galaxy.
They get eaten alive. The galaxy is a hard place, and it has no pity for innocent kids who believe in right and wrong.
He’s seen her eyes before, all right. He still remembers that scrappy kid on another desert planet, another kid with wide eyes and a wagging tail, another kid with more hope than sense, more courage than cunning, more skill than they knew, another kid who burned so brightly but not bright enough. Not for the blackness between the stars.
He failed that kid. Like he failed his wife, and his son.
He’s not gonna fail this one.
one of my favorite Han Solo moments is at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back when he has to go rescue Luke in the middle of his Leia tantrum, and some hapless no-name is like “sir maybe exercise caution on account of your sheephorse will freeze in the darkness??” and han bellows out of nowhere “THEN I’LL SEE YOU IN HELL!!!!!!!!!”
#dial it down there pal. this poor underling didnt make ur dumb friend go ‘investigate a meteorite’ in the middle of frozen fuckall nowhere #like….way to escalate #ol cool guy han solo #playing it very cool as usual #STAR WARS #HAN SOLO #my special guy #flouncing off in a huff once again
Now we know where Ben gets his drama queen streak from
Han Solo is someone who thinks he’s invincible. When he’s Han Solo the smuggler, when he’s Han Solo the Captain of the Millennium Falcon, he’s invincible. He always talks his way out of things. He always puts up a fight. That’s the Han Solo that we as the audience knows, Han Solo who is tough and suave and practically untouchable. But Han Solo the father isn’t invincible. Han Solo the father can’t put up a fight against his son, he can only be vulnerable and try to reach out to Ben with love, and he can’t be charming or deceitful in that moment, he can only be honest. But he couldn’t talk himself out of that one, and in the end he didn’t die being a war hero, of the captain of a spaceship, or a risk-taking smuggler. He died being a father.
In light of the disappointing shortlist of actors up for playing young Han Solo in the upcoming spin-off, we should be reminded of the brilliant internet talent Jamie Costa.
cast him cast him caST HIM CAST HIM
He’s now officially the only choice who could sell me on this movie
So “The Force Awakens” has a lot of stuff going on with names. Finn doesn’t have one at all until he meets Poe, Rey has just one and doesn’t know anything about her family. Kylo Ren replaced his while trying to convince himself he can be as badass as Vader. (Good luck with that.) Poe Dameron is the only person in the younger generation with two names – even Hux and Phasma have just the one we know – and he’s also the only one who knows who he is, what he’s doing, and in general has his shit together.
Meanwhile, Leia is still explicitly Leia Organa, no ‘Solo’ hanging off it. A lot of people assume that Ben’s original name is Solo, and yet there’s no actual evidence for that. When we meet Han, Rey asks if he’s really Han Solo, and his response is “Well, I was.” Sooooooo…. I think what I’m trying to get here is that, if anyone took the other’s name in that marriage, it was Han. People just keep calling him Solo because that’s what he’s famous by.
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