Considering the point of the character is that he grows and learns to care about a cause bigger than himself it’s weird Lucas kept re-editing things to make Han less of a dirtbag. It’s endearing that he’s just an indebted loser at a bar with his space dog lying to a teenager and his religious friend
May 14, 2025 04:45This is sort of an issue with every character in Star Wars in the wider canon where the werewolf at the bar has to have a comic book series about his adventures when it kind of makes more sense that a townie werewolf is just drinking space Pabst and hassling people
right, he’s a shitbag that falls for a girl way out of his league and decides to be better enough to help save the galaxy
the more of a dirtbag he used to be the more romantic it is
it's funny as the movies go on and lucas keeps adding and removing context how obi wan becomes so much more of a shithead liar while han becomes less
Han is Chewy's dog. Wookies live to be like 400.
Han shooting first is such a cool and iconic moment that it’s no wonder it became such a centerpiece of controversy when Lucas decided to muck with it. it’s not even a particularly dubious act! a guy pulls a gun on you and tells you gonna kill you, that pretty damn justified.
It’s also weird to draw the line at him shooting a gangster’s enforcer who’s about to kill him when half an hour later he and Luke ambush and kill multiple Stormtroopers to infiltrate the Death Star. Where’s the line
“His religious friend” destroyed me.
Lucas is the only guy in the world who can’t figure that a drug smuggler living in a crime-ridden shithole might be a little quick on the draw if a known bounty hunter came to the table and told him that the crime lord the smuggler works for wants his money and has issued a bounty.
It's the fundamental problem with the (admittedly annoying) discourse around "Han shit first"
He's introduced as a ruthless cowboy who has a change of heart and *saves the day at the conclusion of the story*
Why would you undermine that character arc?
I wrote "shit" lol noooo
Don't even try to shoot him with your blaster because he will jerk his head weirdly and dodge that somehow
If you ever lift a finger Greedo I will go Gary's mod and dislocate my neck at you
It's also like...how bad was he in the beginning anyway? He was kind of scummy but it's not like he was committing war crimes or slavery or whatnot. Oh no, the guy killed someone who definitely would have killed him if he'd had the green light, and he's self serving. Not exactly big E Evil.
As a kid I loved him precisely because he was a bit sleazy, not clean cut, unpredictable... I still believed, yeah maybe he did crap out at the end with the money. Maybe he still is going to leave at the start of Empire Strikes Back. Perfect foil for the farm boy with the big hair.
I really enjoyed Solo as a fun heist movie that wasn't about the Jedi. Just a good time, imo the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy. But you're right on this point. He's supposed to be a D-bag in that era, not the smuggler with a heart of gold.
I also liked Solo and I was not expecting to, it’s maybe my favorite Ron Howard movie lol
