A New Hope was released 47 years ago in cinemas. Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa took their first steps on screen there. Decades later, as the universe Star Wars has expanded a lot, a monologue of the smuggler has lost all its meaning… This article aims to explain it, it’s up to you not to give us your theory in the comments!
Han Solo and the Force, a story of (dis)love
How can we maintain the coherence and uniqueness of a fictional universe when it grows? Between new series, comics, spin-offs and trilogies, Star Wars has continued to grow since the release of the first film in 1977. George Lucas could never have imagined that the galactic adventures of his heroes would have such an impact on society and its collective imagination… However, decades later, it is clear that certain assertions ofA New Hope have lost their meaning. As fans discover new details about the Canon, illogicalities arise. This is particularly the case of a line from Han Solo, which almost 50 years after it was uttered on screen, is no longer rational.
As a kid, I flew from one end of this galaxy to the other. I’ve seen a lot of strange things, but I have never seen anything that makes me believe that there is one all-powerful Force that controls everything. There is no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It’s just a bunch of simple stuff and nonsense.
In the context of near disappearance of the Jedi where this line is pronounced, the spectators do not question it. But since then, the prequel trilogy has revealed that the Galactic Republic, which employed their Order, ruled the galaxy for most of Han Solo’s childhood.
One of the explanations put forward by our colleagues at CBR (but insufficient) lies partly in the childhood of Han Solo, who grew up in poverty on the planet Corellia. More or less orphan, he fell into crime at a very young age because of an organization, that of the White Worms, and his entire adolescence took place without him being aware of what was happening in the galaxy. Before Order 66, there were around 10,000 Jedi: the chances of the young man meeting one and either witnessed proof of the existence of the Force were very weak. Then as Han Solo grew older, the Empire’s propaganda did its job by erasing the traces of the Knights. Little by little, Palpatine managed to censor his fiercest enemies, calling into question their very reality.
And that’s not all, since his sidekick Chewbacca fought alongside Master Yoda In Revenge of the Sith, during the Battle of Kashyyyk. How can the smuggler deny the existence of the Force even though his friend witnessed it? One explanation could be the censorship imposed by the Empire on this subject, making it a taboo within the galaxy, the mere mention of which can bring death. Unless the hairy warrior, almost 200 years old when he met Han Solo (as revealed in the spin-off dedicated to the character) did not consider it useful to tell him about his former life. Skeptical in naturethe pilot of the Millennium Falcon could also have given no credence to his friend’s stories, being disinclined to believe them.
A thorny question, the most likely answer to which is that fans are capable of spotting details that even the artists cannot discern… Thus losing coherence. And you, what do you think?
Source: hitek.fr
