Inspired by this [thread=492696]thread[/thread] about the new Star trek trailer. It’s just a guy welding his initials on a ship he designed because its tradition. Also the Kessler run has nothing to do with bloody black holes. Solo was just pulling Luke’s leg.
Han Solo: Hey Chewie! did you notice how i used parsecs as a measurement of time instead of as a measurement of distance, and the stupid farm boy didn’t even notice.
Chewie: Aaarghaaah! (Translation: LOL!)
Terminator. “There is no fate but what you make.” This came from the first movie, people. Since the very beginning of the franchise, the understanding has been is that there are no rules, there is no destiny, there is no future that has to happen, so anything is possible. That’s what the series is ABOUT!
Bolding mine.
Maybe he used time instead of distance because he was drunk on whiskey?
Yes, a pair of glasses is a dumb disguise. Everyone new it was a dumb disguise. But, no one was stupid enough to tell a guy that could rip you in half with his pinky that his disguise was dumb. They just humored him.
I had a drunken idea the other night that the Kessel run was actually some kind of maneuver. Like speed up to hyperspace, do three loop-de-loops and back to a stop.
I’m not applying Occam’s Razor or anything, but I just have to say that that other thread made my head hurt. I knew that sort of thing existed, but yikes!
I had decided that the Kessel Run was a specific smuggling job without a specific route. You start at the Spice Mines of Kessel (where droids are melted down into who knows what), load up a bunch of spice from shady suppliers. Then blast off and exit the system while evading Imperial patrol vessels whose captains would prefer you pay the export duty on your cargo. The destination is the system with the biggest market for the spice from Kessel (always the same system, of course, that’s why it’s the Kessel Run).
When Han says he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, he is legitimately bragging: he was able to evade Imperial pursuit through hyperspace while making the shortest possible line from Kessel to the destination system.
The only problem with that is that it’s Solo’s response when Kenobi asks if it’s a fast ship. He’s bragging specifically about his ship’s speed, not his own skills as a pilot.
I always figured the explanation was either:
A. Lucas nabbed the word “parsec” for his own uses, assuming that nobody who saw the movie would have any clue what the word actually meant, or
B. Lucas stumbled accidentally into the problem by inventing a word that sounded “space”-ish without any clue himself that it was an actual astronomical term.
“No fate but what we make” is never mentioned in the first movie. The actual quote is:
Reese [quoting Future John]: “Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can’t help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.”
Occam’s Razor says that John was not a physicist, so he likely knew jack shit about the mechanics of time travel.
I think it’s simpler. The general public doesn’t connect Clark to Superman because, in a city the size of Metropolis/New York, there are tens of thousands of tall brunet white dudes who fit the general description, and as Superman (a) doesn’t wear a mask and (b) is a god who is obviously beyond mortal concerns in most ways, there is no reason to think he’s holding down a 9-to-5 job.
I still say that in the DC universe, and probably most other fictional universes, everyone or nearly everyone has a harder time recognizing faces than we do in this one. It explains why people get away with wearing no masks at all, and how Superman can stand in for Batman OR Bruce Wayne, or worst of all, how Batgirl can stand in for Robin (no seriously)
(or it could just be that there’s only like six faces…)
I know there’s a Shortpack strip that supports this theory, but I can’t bloody find it.
Pre-Crisis universe that is undoubtedly true. But it’s never been clear to me how Barbara did with her boobs during that impersonation, as even before the current trend of artists who were deprived of breast feeding, she was never especially small.
Criminal trials that rely on eyewitness testimony would be a real bitch.
Prosecutor: Can you identify the perpetrator in this courtroom?
Eyewitness: Cant say that i can.
Prosecutor: Dammit! 68th time in a row.
Judge: Case dismissed.
Plus lots of people look sort-of-alike, and Kent speaks in a light tenor whereas Supes uses a bass-baritone. (Hey, if comics can be canon, why can’t radio be?)
