Star Words: Episode V, Part 24
Jun. 4th, 2020 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrilA glance through previous entries has me realizing that this series has gotten longer and longer with each episode. So I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to reach the 24th entry with so much of the movie still remaining to analyze. At this rate, I could easily spend an entire year just on Episode VI....
Honestly, these weekly entries have become quite valuable to me. Since I started Star Words back in March of 2017, it feels like the world has been turned inside-out and pieced back together sideways. It's frequently exhausting and disheartening. Having one stable thing that I do every week, however trivial, offers a much-needed measure of comfort. Stories are important.
So where did we leave our heroes? Ah yes, escaping the perils of the asteroid field only to fall directly into the path of the Imperial fleet, highlighted by Threepio's premature and therefore ironic expression of relief. Out of the gundark's nest and into the fray. No need to worry, though -- Han's got everything under control. He readies the ship for hyperspace.
Nope.
"No lightspeed?"
"It's not my fault!"
It's the little things that bring out the humor in this running gag. That sound -- the rise and fall of the ship's ailing hyperdrive. The subsequent fall of Han's expression. And note Leia's evolving reactions. The first time she's shocked and appalled. This time she hardly bothers to act surprised. By the third time, as we'll see near the movie's end, she's given up saying anything and just buries her face in disgust.
Han's response, too, is a recurring bit that Lando will echo later. I have to say that this particular phrase grabs me because I hear it a lot from my youngest. He's going through a very defensive stage of late, so we hear "How was I supposed to know that?!" and "I wasn't trying to do that!" and so forth. To him and Han and Lando I would reply, "Yeah, but your fault or not, you still have to deal with the consequences. So get moving and stop whining."
Fortunately, in this case Han is able to pull himself together and find a very creative solution. But first we'll head back to Dagobah for one of Yoda's most powerful lessons....
Honestly, these weekly entries have become quite valuable to me. Since I started Star Words back in March of 2017, it feels like the world has been turned inside-out and pieced back together sideways. It's frequently exhausting and disheartening. Having one stable thing that I do every week, however trivial, offers a much-needed measure of comfort. Stories are important.
So where did we leave our heroes? Ah yes, escaping the perils of the asteroid field only to fall directly into the path of the Imperial fleet, highlighted by Threepio's premature and therefore ironic expression of relief. Out of the gundark's nest and into the fray. No need to worry, though -- Han's got everything under control. He readies the ship for hyperspace.
Nope.
"No lightspeed?"
"It's not my fault!"
It's the little things that bring out the humor in this running gag. That sound -- the rise and fall of the ship's ailing hyperdrive. The subsequent fall of Han's expression. And note Leia's evolving reactions. The first time she's shocked and appalled. This time she hardly bothers to act surprised. By the third time, as we'll see near the movie's end, she's given up saying anything and just buries her face in disgust.
Han's response, too, is a recurring bit that Lando will echo later. I have to say that this particular phrase grabs me because I hear it a lot from my youngest. He's going through a very defensive stage of late, so we hear "How was I supposed to know that?!" and "I wasn't trying to do that!" and so forth. To him and Han and Lando I would reply, "Yeah, but your fault or not, you still have to deal with the consequences. So get moving and stop whining."
Fortunately, in this case Han is able to pull himself together and find a very creative solution. But first we'll head back to Dagobah for one of Yoda's most powerful lessons....
