Speculation The Gratuitous Han Solo Thread

Han Solo is the greatest!



Anyway, I suggested that this board was a ghost town what with all the members being spoiled-rotten. So a good friend suggested, in turn, that I start a new thread. Voila! New thread.

Now that we're getting our long-awaited, On-again Off-again ST, and presumably Han Solo is in it, HOW MUCH should we learn about our favorite roguish smuggler with a heart of gold?

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Will we even learn anything new? The story has to progress so doesn't it seem logical that we learn something new about Han as well?

IMO I would love to see Corellia. We never actually heard that Han is from that planet, it's EU material, nor have we seen it. BUT would Disney consider keeping it "virgin territory" for the alleged Han Solo spin-off?

Also, I posted this in a thread months agao, but I think Han Solo should have his own JW theme. He sorta-kinda has one but it's more of a snippet than an actual theme.

Lastly, wouldn't it be cool seeing Han and Lando playing sabacc?

 

Yeah, I can't wait to see Corellia and I'm 100% sure that we will see it at some point during ST, maybe even in EP7 itself.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing Corellia in both the ST films and the spin offs.

 

I'm not a fan of Bria Tharen or the books she was in (can't remember the author; that says something), but Brian Daley's Han Solo books are a lot of fun.

 

The Han Solo trilogy is my 2nd favorite EU trilogy and made me want to see more of Corellia. I want to see the Corellian Shipyards at the very least.

 

perhaps we could see thracken sal solo

 

I have a feeling Corellia would be saved more for the spinoff film, mostly because it would focus on him specifically.

Now, if Ep. 7 focuses on Han a lot, we might see it there. I guess it depends on if they want to show him growing up vs. coming back as the conquering hero type.

 

Was him being "Corellian" really only a EU thing? Or was it somehow mentioned in Lucas's treatments, if not in the films? Sort of like the Chewie life-debt thing. That's never mentioned in the films, but I think at least one version of Lucas's treatments/character sketches whatever, mention it. But not all of them.


Love the thread, btw.

 

He mentioned Corellian ships in ANH (the SDs), but I believe that was the only time Corellia was really mentioned in the OT.

 

Corellia is one of the top two mentioned planets I would like to see in the upcoming films (Sullust being the other - and yes, I consider "corellian ships" a mention. ). Might be better to leave it for the Solo spinoff (Nar Shadaa and Nal Hutta would be cool to see in that as well), but either way, I'll be happy.

Oh, and the Bria Tharen hate saddens me greatly. I'm personally a big fan of her.

 

Alright, don't get me wrong here, but I am honestly uncertain about what is actually considered a Mary/Gary Sue character here on these boards. I am not critising your particular description of any character, I'm simply baffled by the sheer amount of usage that term gets in general.
This is getting slightly off topic but I am geniuniely curious, and I hope the powers that be will bear with me.
I know what that term applies to, what kind of character and all that, but on the other hand - it seems to me that more and more people have adopted that phrase as something that is a sort of quasi-argument shield against anything they personally dislike, disguising it as an objective argument. After all, we are talking about a galaxy filled with universe-bending monks who wield laser swords and the main protagonist is called Luke and the creator is Lucas and he is not a Sue - yet when someone mentions warriors who have no supernatural powers but can still defeat the universe-bending monks --> they are called Stues.

Again, this is not about that particular post that anakinfansince1983 made above, with which I actually agree for the most part, but it was more a general cause to make me want to actually ask this question.

 

Great responses everyone!

And actually, the Han Solo trilogy was one of the few EU stories that I actually liked and now that its been mentioned, makes me want to go back an re-read. (BTW -- I Hated the Corellia trilogy -- the post ROTJ one.)

I wouldn't mind this little factoid being mentioned in the ST and in fact believe it will if/when Han Solo dies. IE Chewies "life-debt" will be passed on to the Solo kids.

I think you're dead-on. Would make a great planet to start the Solo version of the Hero's Journey.

 

This would ultimately depend on if the story focuses on said Solo, and not someone else.

 

Ah, must have missed that.

But I agree on the point. Corellia would be a definite change of pace compared to Tatooine.

 

...or Coruscant. I've seen enough of that place for one lifetime.

 

I'm actually hoping we'll see more of Coruscant. Not sure I could ever see enough of that world...