Star Wars Personal Theory IV
Oct. 24th, 2014 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerOne viewing of all the Star Wars movies a year seems to me clear of whatever risk there may be in "overexposure" (although I can find myself wishing I could find or make the time to watch other old movies, too). By this point, however, I suppose I'm conscious I might not be hitting on too many "unexpected insights" in these screenings. Remembering the "headcanon" some people have shared before, though, I was thinking a bit about whether I've developed a few "one-person beliefs" of my own. As I got started for this year (it always seems to be around this time), I was mulling over the possibility that "the Millennium Falcon is a particularly disreputable-looking starship."
Everyone loves the Falcon, of course, or at least a great deal is made of that; a good number of the recent backstage leaks amount to sightings of the latest external mockup put together. At the same time, though, just as I've grown to suspect too big a deal can be made of Han Solo as "the Star Wars character for grown-up tastes" (I can get to imagining that not only does he, as others have said, represent what the galaxy has been reduced to by the Empire, but in Star Wars itself his opinions are in fact counter to what's actually needed and most of his actions are motivated by simple greed), I've become a bit annoyed with the demands from certain people that everything has to look as worn and battered as it, or else it's a sign of George Lucas's disdain for the work of his old designers (I've seen the chrome Naboo starships used as targets for that in the past.) To me, when Luke's first reaction to the Falcon is disbelieving, I can imagine it must look more "used" than just about anything else in its "future." (Leia, too, reacts on first sight with disbelief, although she may not be quite as familiar with the style some make a very big deal of.) To try to identify "things that should be copied" may seem more positive to some than just finding clever ways to condemn everything they see, but at the same time I do wonder how much actual analysis is going into it.
Everyone loves the Falcon, of course, or at least a great deal is made of that; a good number of the recent backstage leaks amount to sightings of the latest external mockup put together. At the same time, though, just as I've grown to suspect too big a deal can be made of Han Solo as "the Star Wars character for grown-up tastes" (I can get to imagining that not only does he, as others have said, represent what the galaxy has been reduced to by the Empire, but in Star Wars itself his opinions are in fact counter to what's actually needed and most of his actions are motivated by simple greed), I've become a bit annoyed with the demands from certain people that everything has to look as worn and battered as it, or else it's a sign of George Lucas's disdain for the work of his old designers (I've seen the chrome Naboo starships used as targets for that in the past.) To me, when Luke's first reaction to the Falcon is disbelieving, I can imagine it must look more "used" than just about anything else in its "future." (Leia, too, reacts on first sight with disbelief, although she may not be quite as familiar with the style some make a very big deal of.) To try to identify "things that should be copied" may seem more positive to some than just finding clever ways to condemn everything they see, but at the same time I do wonder how much actual analysis is going into it.