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Re: Another one of those 'what's wrong with TPM' posts
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Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:41:16 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Christopher Tracey writes:
> > I think the Luke/Han relationship is very important to ANH. It's my
> > impression that Han didn't care about Luke until they got trapped in the cell
> > block. Even then its a relationship of convienance since Luke was on Han's
> > side and they were both in serious trouble. By the end of the film, Han has
> > grown to respect Luke as a good friend- even though he has a hard time
> > admitting it.
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> Well, it may be important/necessary, but I never felt it their relationship to
> be very well defined, expanded, or altogether interesting.
Er, I'll have to disagree wth you there. Han's opinion of Luke goes from
"Watch your mouth, kid, or you're going to find yourself floating home" to
"You're pretty good in a fight. We could use someone like you." He's
offering to make Luke part of the crew of the Falcon - I can't imagine
that's something he'd do lightly! I also think that it was his friendship
with Luke that brought him back during the Death Star attack.
There's nothing
> really intreguing about their friendship... But relationships like Vader/Luke,
> Leia/Han, and some others actually intice me to watch intently. There's real
> meat to their relationships, whereas Luke/Han is kinda boring. Anyway, I'm not
> contending that it's an unimportant relationship, but it's not the kind of
> relationship that makes people want to watch movies. It's of the same quality
> as Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan kinda... unexplored, uninteresting, but important.
I don't think it was unexplored - just handled with a lot more subtlety
than the "melodramatic" relationships like Luke/Vader.
J
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| One of the SW novels I've read, I can't remember which one now, has Han looking back at that time, and he says that the only reason he had come back was because his hyperdrive didn't work, and couldn't leave. I thought that was interesting. Adam (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Well, it may be important/necessary, but I never felt it their relationship to be very well defined, expanded, or altogether interesting. There's nothing really intreguing about their friendship... But relationships like Vader/Luke, Leia/Han, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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