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Han Solo quote irl (feddit.org)

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

He wanted Han to die in the original trilogy. I think it's genuine hate.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's a general hatred of the character per se, but he was quite adamant that Han should have died in RotJ. He was willing to reprise the role later as long as they killed him.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

"Hate" is hyperbole; he just doesn't like the character much.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago

The way I think Ford sees it is in the OT, his death in Empire or Jedi would have been a fitting end to his character. He is introduced to the series as a self interested scoundrel, who is only concerned with getting paid. Then he comes back heroically to blow up the death star, selflessly risks his life to save Luke on Hoth, and sacrifices himself so Leia and Chewie are spared. After he's unfrozen, there's not a whole lot of character development in Jedi so he just becomes a side character. It seemed like he cared for the character until Han became a side character and that's why he wanted Han to be killed off.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean what is Han supposed to be in Star Wars now? It was probably pitched to him as a bad ass gun slinger that doesn't care for the law and gets the girl anyways. Immediately the world and story grows well beyond the possibilities of a gun slinger having real impact.

He's a side character, who can't really effect the universe he is surrounded by and falls into a grumpy father figure role. He was just in the new movies for nostalgia.

Luke can defeat entire armies, Leia secretly a force user that effects entire governments, he uh, smuggles some items sometimes. Could be replaced by near any other normal human out there, as every new character near immediately learns how to fly a ship, shoot down other ships or has a droid that can do it for them.

"But he can understand what a wookie is saying" Wait, suddenly everyone else that is around the wookie for 2 days can as well.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

He did just fine in the (now non-canon) books as a main character!