Star Wars Anthology (Young Han Solo)
So what that means is... winning the Falcon in a game of Sabaac, saving Chewbacca and doing the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. They really need to explain how he gets his chin scar, his black vest, the blood stripes on his pants... and probably throw in an "easter egg" about the silver dice in the Falcon cockpit. Am I missing anything?
Don't forget the whole Jabba deal. They have to cram in his dumping cargo at the first sign of trouble. Even Han gets boarded sometimes. Maybe they'll have Jabba put out the bounty, and show a young Greedo standing in a [place] looking at the list of bounties being post. Or maybe show young Greedo trying to apprehend someone and accidentally shooting him (hair trigger).
Ha-ha, ha-ha. Chortle, chortle. Snicker. (sigh)
Hey, Disney/Lucasfilm folks: how about some NEW stories, with NEW characters we can latch onto. Stop flogging the original, principal heroes?
Please don't have Han scratch Chewie's face/neck, as though he's some kind of servile pet monkey, like he did in that deleted footage. It's humiliating to Chewbacca.
Never saw that, but curious. There's a lot of stuff that I'll wager Richard (edit; thx) Chew dropped on the floor, and with good reason. Lucas can't edit for nuthin', I heard, he needed good editors to say, "Don't need this, don't need this, definitely lose this, OH now this is good, we keep this...."
Didn't Lucas say that after ANH he changed his mind on Chewie being the dog in the passenger seat (where he got the idea)? Chewie went from being a kind of pet to an intelligent equal.
There's a lot made of a Wookiee being a big brute, but their banter even in SW (1977) shows a depth of friendship and camaraderie that requires some intelligence, mutual understanding. Just from memory:
"Chewie, get us out of here!"
"Our passengers must be hotter than I thought. Angle the deflectors while I get the coordinates for the jump..."
"rawwrr- rawr rawr-awr rawrrrr" "Yeah, you
said it, Chewie…" [One of my favorite bits of dialog in the whole film]
[giving Han a questioning, maybe judging, look] "What're you looking at – I know what I'm doing."
There's a little of Harpo and Chico Marx in Chewie and Han, where Harpo just toots a horn, and Chico responds, illustrating to us the audience what Harpo apparently said or is thinking. Simple stage/film device. In the case of a huge anthropoid bear-monkey, it's funny. It also reinforces this is a multi-species universe. Chewie and Han understand each other (somehow).
And by the way, Chewbacca's the First Mate. He's responsible for a lot of *#&@. Comes with the job. But he gets his perqs, like getting to play a little pickup game of Phil Tippett chess with a droid while Han squares away the cockpit.
Ha....maybe I just feel sorry for the big guy
J
Careful with that, Wookiees may not take kindly to sympathy or pity.
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