I just realized Han could have saved the universe a whole lot of trouble if he'd just killed Darth Vader at the end of A New Hope. He was knocked away and spinning which would have been a perfect time to just shoot his TIE fighter and kill him.
Really when you think about it what in the world was this dude doing piloting a ship? He may have been a badass with the Force but a whole lot of good that did him as a pilot apparently. Maybe that's why you never see him piloting in any of the other movies. He realized he almost got killed and didn't want to risk it again.
Wedge when he blew up the Death Star II with the emperor on it. Without Darth Vader to motivate him Luke would have had no reason to get that close to Palpatine.
Wyatt Collins
>save the universe a lot of trouble >by killing Vader You mean the guy who asked Luke to overthrow the emperor with him? What a menace!
Lincoln Mitchell
the emperor was prepared to leave on his away ship
Anthony Gray
Good point. On the other hand, the empire could have just shot the escape pod with r2d2 on it at the start of a new hope.
Jaxson Fisher
Yeah which would have been devastating but they detected no life signs.
Alexander Sullivan
He just tried spinning, that's a goos trick.
Owen Thompson
>think about it
ever notice how whenever this phrase is uttered, its always in conjunction with something either retarded or obvious?
Evan Hughes
In a reality in which droids are commonplace, and with an organization as streamlined and strict as the empire, they should have had a protocol for this situation.
Jordan Morgan
Maybe, or maybe the protocol was not to waste ammo unnecessarily and a pod malfunction was considered a more likely reason for the escape pod firing off. Occam's razor.
Brayden Barnes
Rate my headcanon:
I always justified it as they were looking for the Death Star plans, so they were under orders not to shoot anything non-living so they wouldn't destroy the plans on accident (they have to be sure they aren't still in rebel hands, after all).
That's why they sent the stormtroopers down to Tatooine; they had to recover the plans from the pod. When they got there, they realized there were droids on board.
Julian Rogers
>ammo Turbolasers don't use ammo.
Chase Nguyen
> Maybe that's why you never see him piloting in any of the other movies. Where were you when prequels and both old EU and nuCanon established Vader as one of the best pilots in the galaxy?
Jose Russell
If a headcanon explains something without any plot holes then I think it's a good headcanon.
Really, people like to complain about plot holes in films and stuff but there has to be a way that the writer wrote it the way they did, even if they don't necessarily explain it directly. So I think the goal should be not simply identifying said "plot holes", but figuring out how to explain them in a way that makes sense. To give the writer some credit and do something positive instead of just whining all the time about how nothing makes sense.
Colton Diaz
Anyone ever heard of Star Wars Infinities? They're pretty interesting "what-if" comics for the OT made in the early 2000s.
This article has pretty detailed plot summaries for all of them so you can take a minute to read up.
Jordan Perry
The whole point of that was that nobody in Star Wars considers droids people. They're turned on and off like ceiling lights, traded like items, not considered smart or sentient enough to have agency. Nobody cares if there are droids on the escape pod, to them it'd be like yelling "Oh no, the microwave oven is getting away!".
Dylan Cox
Even our society regards the loss of a flash drive with important information as something unwanted. Doesn't matter if the flash drive is just a piece of plastic with some circuitry inside.
Liam Sanders
The flash drive and the droid that's carrying it are two separate things. Imperials didn't detect anyone inside the escape pod, and assumed Leia was still holding the drive with the plans in it because what use would the plans do sitting in a pod in the desert? Again, they don't think of the droids because nobody thinks about droids, droids have the same level of presence as furniture. It takes them a while to go "oh right, droids" and start searching.
Ryan Jones
Horse.
Brody Sanders
George Luca$ was already envisioning a sequel by this point
Also, Han likely assumed that TIE fighter was another run of the mill pilot and not THE Darth Vader. Since the proime directive was to destroy the Death Star Han couldnt be bothered chasing after a TIE figther when he was busy helping Luke destroying the DS
Isaac Peterson
Did you say proime on purpose, because it made me go back and read your post with a British accent.
Brody Myers
This makes sense. We already know they wanted a second Death Star so the plans would be too important to destroy
Cooper Foster
not him but i think it's pretty obvious he means AFTER this incident
David Flores
It's really funny that they later establish him as some hotshot pilot considering in this movie he is taken completely by surprise and shouts WHAT! when the Falcon shows up.
