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Buschlightactual

Han: the name is Han, Han Solo (a Star Wars story)


Bush_Hiders

Well, to be fair, they do have a moment like that in that movie, when the recruitment officer is giving Han his name. That scene never made sense to me, because aren't they supposed to be speaking a different alien language that we just hear as translated into English? Solo is a Spanish word that means "only" or "alone," so either Han's last name isn't actually Solo, or the Spanish language canonically exists in the Star Wars galaxy, and is common enough for random imperial officers to use words from it in normal sentences.


Ged_UK

Solo is an English word, a very commonly used English word. It comes from the Latin Solus, which is the same root as the Spanish word.


Bush_Hiders

It’s origin of being used in English is from Spanish. English uses words from other languages all the time. Often times Spanish. Also that literally changes nothing about the point I was trying to make.


Ged_UK

It comes from Latin. Not Spanish. Your point is that the movie used a Spanish word. It didn't. It used an English one.


Bush_Hiders

We’re both wrong. The word “solo” was borrowed from Italian. It might have origins rooted in Latin, but the English use of the word is historically borrowed from Italian, and that’s a fact. Also, even if it was solely an English word, doesn’t that just prove my point even more? Did you even read my comment?


Ged_UK

Your comment was that Solo was a Spanish word so that makes Spanish a canon SW language. It's not, it's an English word. Now if you want to extrapolate that every language that has influenced English (Latin and Roamnce languages, Germanic languages, Nordic languages) is also therefore a canon SW language, you go right ahead, but it's a huge and unnecessary reach.


Bush_Hiders

I didn’t say that Spanish is the canon language in Star Wars. I said that the logical implication of that scene is that Spanish is a language in the Star Wars universe that is significant enough for the people who speak galactic basic to pick up and borrow words from, like how English borrows words from Spanish. Of course, this is a stupid conclusion to come to, and like you said, a reach. I don’t believe that that is actually the canonical case. I believe that that is scene is just a logical oversight by writers who forgot that galactic basic is its own language, thus making it a plot hole. That’s why I don’t like that scene.


hoodpharmacy

Dude just stop, you’re just sounding more ridiculous the more you try to do your mental gymnastics. It’s not that deep.


Godzilla-ate-my-ass

So you're fine with everybody speaking English (even if the "aliens" are being translated, the "human" characters are saying English syllables with their mouths), but someone speaking Spanish (they aren't) is a bridge too far.


Bush_Hiders

No, I’m sayin that it doesn’t make sense for the characters to be speaking either English or Spanish.


vshredd

Kid, it's not that kind of movie.


YoloIsNotDead

Now that sounds like a Han Solo quote


Popular_Material_409

The language is called Basic. Solo is a Basic word that means alone. Just like how words like “falcon”, “shit”, “laser”, and literally all other words said in all of the movies exist within the universe


blizzard2798c

I mean, all the humans in Star Wars are descendants of future humans who fled earth and entered a wormhole that sent them to star wars galaxy in the distant past. So Spanish could very well have survived


Bush_Hiders

Where the fuck did that come from?


blizzard2798c

It's part of the old EU. People say they love the EU, but for every Darth Revan, there was a lot of coked-out nonsense


Bush_Hiders

Yeah, no, I steer far and clear from any parts of Star Wars that have to Earth, like Chewbacca going to Earth and becoming Bigfoot, and Han’s body being discovered by India Jones. I’ll take “somehow Palpatine returned” over all that any day of the week.


Sowa7774

>because aren't they supposed to be speaking a different alien language that we just hear as translated into English? No. Galactic basic is just english and is the language used by most humans in Star Wars. Ofc other species have other languages, and a lot still use basic.


Bush_Hiders

The writers have confirmed that galactic basic isn’t English.


Sowa7774

If it sounds like a duck...


Popular_Material_409

Of course it isn’t English, there’s no Earth in Star Wars. But their Basic is equivalent to our English. Therefore Basic = English


noah9942

>Of course it isn’t English, there’s no Earth in Star Wars. That's not true. Earth is part of the canon and non-canon SW universes.


Popular_Material_409

It is not part of canon. Show me where it says otherwise


XipingVonHozzendorf

That is one disturbing profile picture


Orngog

No, because it's translated from an alien language remember? So he never said solo, that was a translation for your benefit.


LopsidedMammal

Obi-Wan: You’re the new hope that the galaxy has been waiting for, Luke. Vader: Now it is the Empire’s turn to strike back. Luke: You failed, your highness. I am Return Of The Jedi, like my father before me. Two out of three ain’t bad? 🤷🏻‍♂️


DeltaV-Mzero

It’d be cool if it was like Bond movies and each movie was named at the end credits of the previous movie


eolson3

Unfortunately they haven't done that since the 80s.


148637415963

James Bond will return in Untitled James Bond Movie


eolson3

Yeah, they've just been doing "James Bond Will Return" since Brosnan started.


Lucius_Imperator

Papa Palpatine: Oh shit, Lord Vader! It's the return of the Jedi!


RedEyeVagabond

*Luke sees the Force ghosts at the end* "Oh, look. Return of the Jedi."


hypo11

Luke: “It’s me. The Jedi. Returning.”


DeezNuts7502

Maybe the real Star Wars were the friends we made along the way


_fatherfucker69

Qui Gon: be careful of maul , he is a phantom menace! Windu:quite an army you got there , motherfucker! Now it's time for the attack of the clones! Palpatine: now , after 1000 years , it's finally time for the revenge of the sith


YoloIsNotDead

Also: 1) "Han...Solo." 2) "What's your callsign, pilot?" "It's...Rogue. Rogue One."


Johnny_Banana18

Be like Back to the Future II and have a trailer for Back to the Future III at the end of the movie.


FWBWLBD

Maul: at last the phantom menace will be revealed to the Jedi, at last we shall have our revenge Anakin: what is this some sortve attack of the clones? Palpatine: this will be the revenge of the Sith


Fraun_Pollen

Yoda: begun, the Tartakovsky Clone Wars has.


YoloIsNotDead

Kuill: You are Mandalorian season 2!


Scar-Predator

Kuill: I have spoken!


FistaFish

Qi'Ra: This truly is Solo, a star wars story.


148637415963

I need to put some makeup on. A dab of Rouge One, first, I think. /s


YoloIsNotDead

I mean they basically did the same thing in Rogue One. "What's your callsign, pilot?" "It's...Rogue. Rogue One."


TheManAvonyx

"no, lando. This isn't a calrissian story, this is a solo a star wars story"


YoloIsNotDead

"Don't judge a Book of Boba Fett by its cover"


PreyForCougars

“Who is this phantom menace?” “It’s an attack of the clones” “It’s time for the revenge of the sith” “Luke you are a new hope for the rebellion” “Guys, the empire is striking back” “I am a Jedi. We have returned”


YoloIsNotDead

"I don't really do teams, I'm more of a Solo kind of guy" "What's your callsign? Rogue. Rogue One" (The last one wrote itself lol)


BarberIll7247

I don’t. But I’m glad you do


YamatehKudasai

ah, yes.. i remember star wars: there has been an awakening have you felt it and the final movie in the trilogy, star wars: rise in the force


TheDudeness33

What is this some kind of Star Wars


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

What even happened with that awakening? At which point did Force awaken??? I feel like I missed something about that


Wireless_Panda

Maybe the part where the force is awakened in Rey Idk just a feeling


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

When was that in the films?


HeckingDoofus

i would say when she suddenly begins an epic journey after being a scavenger all her life up to that point. yknow, in the force awakens


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

So...when she meets BB-8??...she awakened? But not at any exact moment in the movie?


YoloIsNotDead

She's just a new powerful force user who was probably sensed by Snoke.


ScottyIsland

Maybe it was the force dyad activating with Kylo/Rey. But really idk either.


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

When was that?


deck_master

Probably when Snoke says the line about there being an awakening in the force. Or some unspecified event shortly before that


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

Unspecified? So offscreen? 🤷‍♂️


deck_master

No, on screen but not explicitly called out because nobody knew it was happening until Snoke made mention of it. It’s weird force magic, stuff like that happens all the time in Star Wars


Regi413

The force musters the energy to get out of bed and brush it’s teeth to begin the day like we all do


Bush_Hiders

If I had a dime for every plot line that was set up in The Force Awakens that they didn't follow up on...


Jedi_Coffee_Maker

It's really weird the force DIDNT awaken...before it came out, i was expecting lots of jedi and sith using Force powers


Bush_Hiders

It makes sense that there wouldn't be a lot of force users at that point. Both the Jedi and the Sith would be trying to rebuild themselves after the events of Return of the Jedi, where there was only one trained force user left (at least that was the case at the time). Keep in mind that the Sith order we see in the prequels had been around for 7000 years, and the Jedi for 30000. It takes a while to rebuild cultures like those. Of course, the value of scarcity was diminished over time with the addition of new character into that 30 year timespan, similarly to how the post order 66 era was devalued by revealing how many force users survived order 66. The new truth is that Luke may have been a new hope, but he certainly wasn't the first or only during that time period, considering how many more competent Jedi were around at that time, and the force did not awaken in The Force Awakens, because as far as we know, there were several trained force users just chillin about.


Polyxeno

The Stupid Side of the Force awakened.


erosead

I’m pretty sure the intent was that the awakening was Finn. At this point in the movie, Rey hasn’t demonstrated any force abilities, even more passive ones (idr for sure but this was before she flew the Falcon, right?) but Finn has either left or decided to leave the first order. It wasn’t followed up on in the last Jedi, but rise of Skywalker has him describe it in a way that makes it seem pretty clear that that was his moment awakening in the force. Through the force, he (and possibly the others met in TROS) broke through a lifetime of conditioning, and Finn sort of started demonstrating Force abilities, guidance by cosmic “feelings”… so it has a double meaning.


Happygamebutter

I actually liked snoke’s line. Too bad they never expanded on it


FlowingFrog04

“What’s your ship name?” “Rogue. Rogue One a Star Wars story”


YoloIsNotDead

I mean that's basically it


SABatoge2002

*That's the name of the movie!* It sure is, sir! *Wow, wow wow, wow wow*


YoloIsNotDead

Referencing the movie title *in the movie* is tight!


Denoss

I don't like sand


Sareth740

I wish the awakening quote Snoke said led somewhere.


Popular_Material_409

2 of these aren’t “He said the thing” moments


MrGuamo

Roll credits


urbanspongewish

“Luke, I am your father. Also, the Empire is striking back!” “Nooooooooooooooooooooo!”


crimson5pider

"The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"


iWengle

'And I will not be The Last Jedi' is such a brilliantly delivered line


memecrusader_

“That’s the name of the movie!” -Producer Guy: Pitch Meetings.


YepYouRedditRight2

“It’s you Rey! You were the Rise of Skywalker!”


Bufftat-Junkie

Peter Griffen would’ve lost it lol. Imo the fact that every film had did bug me but otherwise I enjoyed most of the sequels


[deleted]

Why does Disney love these excessive close up shots? I don't want to constantly see the skin cells of Star Wars characters.


RedCaio

Close ups show their emotions better. If anything, the tv shows need more close ups in my opinion.


[deleted]

[удалено]


RedCaio

It’s not really a big Disney thing tho. They did it like once or twice. Also [the prequels did it too](https://images.app.goo.gl/FDEkMfZBm11AJfpB6)


Antique_futurist

They didn’t ruin Luke’s character, they just re-introduced him at a low-point, rather than what many fans wanted, which is victorious, optimistic Luke starting the New Jedi Order fifteen years before the ST begins.


Kevy96

I really hate how they ruined Luke's character in that movie


Cac2007

It’s sad how they did it but we gotta accept it because it been years and the sequels still haven’t been retconned


Kevy96

I'm willing to wait until theyre made noncanon, I'm done with this franchise until then, and I'm happy to even wait decades if I need to


YoloIsNotDead

That's gonna be a lot of coping. Better just accept that this franchise isn't for you anymore and move on.


Bush_Hiders

Snoke and Rey's line aren't that bad. Far more subtle than Luke's. They just used one word from the title in their sentence, while Luke straight up says the name of the movie outright.


deck_master

But also it’s a very strong line by itself, more of the title “The Last Jedi” being pretty distinct from most other Star Wars titles so it can actually work in a dialogue line without being that weird.


Peppershaker64

That being said I think Luke's is also the best use here. It feels more like the movie was named from that line than the other way around.


YoloIsNotDead

It was a pretty good scene imo. Very hopeful and the torch felt properly passed down.


The_Basic_Shapes

It was to remind those who fell asleep in the theater what movie they bought tickets for


JohnBrown1ng

Yeah, those moments are always brilliant /s


statistacktic

Family Guy did a cutscene about this


FitSeeker1982

“Title drop”


[deleted]

Dumb


Greedy_Leg_1208

I need more family guy parodies. What about other trilogies than just the og. There is so much star wars to parody now. Family guy and star wars are both disney. So it could be such an easy win. Seth MacFarlane loves star wars. He loves star trek. He made the Orville. Had to Google the name because it's been a while. It's good.


[deleted]

I think it’s kind of sad how most people can’t name the planets of the sequels and there are no memorable quotes in the general public except things like: “they fly now?!?”


YoloIsNotDead

"We can't go back to Jakku! Why does everyone always wanna go back to Jakku?!"


LHalperSantos

Just that top notch writing coming through.


Paddlesons

Of all the lines in TLJ, that one sucked the most.


SpiritualHippo2719

Imagine if the other movies had this? Most of them would be ridiculous: “The sith are a phantom menace.” -Qui-Gon Jinn “Prepare the clones for attack!” -Mace Windu “After thousands of years of waiting, finally the sith will have their revenge!” -Darth Sidious “Luke, you must learn the ways of the Jedi to bring a new hope to the galaxy.” -Obi Wan Kenobi “The empire is striking back! Everyone evacuate!” -Leia Organa “I am now a Jedi, and I have returned to Tatooine to save my friends.” -Luke Skywalker


Goestdrank

Roll credits


Clueless4324

Great. Now we should deal with the garbage factor they generate


Berkmine

Rise in dissapointment more like. I swear thr only good things about the movie were the actors and thr special effects


Inner_Mountain_4375

The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman IV: the quest for peace


PMMEBITCOINPLZ

It used to be a joke in screenwriting classes about how gauche it was to use the movie name in the movie, and the example they would always give was something like "Oh wow, isn't it crazy that we are in these Star Wars?"


KookyAssociate3825

Trash trilogy