Since your preview last week I'd been imagining this line would show up, although I'd also found Han's cheery greeting to the snowspeeder search-and-rescue pilot coming to my mind "just in case." The scene you're discussing seems an "iconic" one even so; I got to thinking over the past week a different sort of science fiction work might have someone unfolding or inflating a "shelter" in a matter of moments, "technological" worldbuilding at the possible expense of "connection to the living world"; Star Wars doesn't seem to lack for either.
Bringing up Han using Luke's lightsabre has me thinking there'd been speculation at first and daydreams later on it ought to be taken as evidence Han "had the Force" too. On the other hand, mentioning "the saga" has me admitting a personal conviction General Grievous can wield lightsabres in combat just through "twisted technology and mechanical programming." I also have to admit to wondering a bit about "could the smell have been set up?", which I should probably find humility in.
One last thing I wondered was whether I'd once had an impression Luke only had "steaming entrails heaped on top of him," and I dug out the old storybook and Marvel Comics adaptation that had helped fill me in on the story before managing to see The Empire Strikes Back on videotape (where I can remember a few seconds of being convinced my family had rented the wrong tape, having supposed the "different logos" on all the merchandising were also flashed up at the beginning of their movies). They didn't have that (although the comic, which might have been drawn to the strict old Comics Code, didn't have Han cutting up his tauntaun at all), but both closed out the scene with a more ominous line, "If I don't get this shelter up fast, Jabba won't need those bounty hunters." (I suppose this amounts to another example of George Lucas filming extra material and taking it out in editing.)
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Date: 2020-02-06 11:13 pm (UTC)Bringing up Han using Luke's lightsabre has me thinking there'd been speculation at first and daydreams later on it ought to be taken as evidence Han "had the Force" too. On the other hand, mentioning "the saga" has me admitting a personal conviction General Grievous can wield lightsabres in combat just through "twisted technology and mechanical programming." I also have to admit to wondering a bit about "could the smell have been set up?", which I should probably find humility in.
One last thing I wondered was whether I'd once had an impression Luke only had "steaming entrails heaped on top of him," and I dug out the old storybook and Marvel Comics adaptation that had helped fill me in on the story before managing to see The Empire Strikes Back on videotape (where I can remember a few seconds of being convinced my family had rented the wrong tape, having supposed the "different logos" on all the merchandising were also flashed up at the beginning of their movies). They didn't have that (although the comic, which might have been drawn to the strict old Comics Code, didn't have Han cutting up his tauntaun at all), but both closed out the scene with a more ominous line, "If I don't get this shelter up fast, Jabba won't need those bounty hunters." (I suppose this amounts to another example of George Lucas filming extra material and taking it out in editing.)