Who does he think he is anyway? What is he even doing here to begin with? Why do I have to wear military fatigues and he just waltzes around in pirate gear? Screw him anyway.” Anyway, guess what, Han’s Tauntaun froze to death just as he was told. “Look, I was just trying to tell this guy what would happen. What? Why? There’s no way this wasn’t talked about later in the commissary. Then as an added “eff you,” tells the wise soldier, “I’ll see you in hell.” Han ignores this, and saddles up anyway on the doomed beast. This is when a Rebel soldier gives Han good advice that the Tauntaun will freeze to death before the first marker. He informs everyone in the room that he will take a Tauntaun to find his friend. Han asks about taking a Snowspeeder, but is informed they aren’t adapted to the cold yet. Han confirms that Luke hadn’t checked back in for the night, so Luke still somewhere out there in the cold as night swiftly approaches. Yes, this is a heroic moment for Han, but then he has to confirm everyone’s suspicions about him by yelling at some more Rebel soldier who was just giving sound advice. Okay, this one is pretty obvious, but let’s just start here.
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And the more I watch this movie the more I’m convinced people in the Rebel Alliance find him very annoying. I’m convinced, as presented in 1980 and not counting any more recent canon, he’s not a true member of the Rebel Alliance at this point and seems to be more of a freelancer who is just there “helping out.” (I’ve written about this before, but he’s referred to as “Captain” because he’s the captain of the Millennium Falcon, he wears no military gear like everyone else, and seems to just be able to leave anytime he wants.) At times, to the people actually in the Rebellion with a military rank, he seems like the equivalent of “your boss’s friend who is kind of a jerk,” but you have to humor this person or your boss will get mad. It’s such a great way to signify, oh, things have changed without actually explaining to the audience that things have changed.īut I’m truly fascinated by the role of Han Solo on Hoth. The thing I always find so fascinating about it is the sharp contrast from the last scene of the original Star Wars to the opening scenes of The Empire Strikes Back: We jump from a literal victory ceremony to the Rebel Alliance living on an ice planet being attacked by frozen ice planet bears.
It’s just a movie that, for me, I see from a new perspective almost every time I watch it. All he could do was subconsciously know that he was being held helplessly close to death.A couple weeks ago I rewatched The Empire Strikes Back, a movie I’ve probably seen more times than any other movie. He couldn’t even express himself with a scream because he was being suffocated. He couldn’t move, and he couldn’t satiate what he felt. Without any senses, the time had felt like an eternity of constant agony. It had been a grim sensation-as if for an eternity he’d been trying to draw breath, to move, to scream, every moment in conscious, painful asphyxiation.” Even though Han was not fully alive, the experience had been extremely gruesome. It was described as, “a period that was, to him, timeless.
As the book explained, Han's time in the carbonite was like being in suspended animation – he was only alive enough to feel and know pain. The after-effects were bad enough, but the 1983 novelization of Return of the Jedi, which is no longer official canon, offered a glimpse into what it actually felt like for Han to be frozen.
He was temporarily blind, dehydrated, weak, disorientated and he couldn’t remember what had happened to him. Essentially, after being deprived of everything for months (six in Legends, 12 in canon), his body went into sensory overload. When Han was finally unthawed in Return of the Jedi, the extended period of time being frozen, combined with the primitive freezing technology, caused him to have the classic symptoms of carbon sickness.
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