I’ve seen most of the movies, but my knowledge of the books, tv series, comics, video games, etc. is extremely limited, so I’ll ask my fellow dopers.
Are the falcons (as we know them) in the Star Wars universe? I know ewoks, mantha, tauntauns, but I dont think I’ve ever seen a falcon mentioned. There has to be, though, right? Are they ever mentioned anywhere outside of the Millennium Falcon?
It’s an obvious hole in the movies, yeah. Having the ship named after something that doesn’t exist is weird, right.
But this is Star Wars. Where everything can be retconned if you just believe in fairies hard enough.
Bat-falcons!
Snow falcons!
Spire falcons!
According to Wookipedia the ship was named after a bat-falcon: Bat-falcon | Wookieepedia | Fandom
There is such little detail that this was undoubtedly invented to give some justification to the name.
There is also the Spire Falcon: Spire falcon | Wookieepedia | Fandom
EDIT: Damn! Beaten to it!
There’s an xkcd for everything, isn’t there?
the main window design was inspired by the front window of the WW 2 bomber B-29
I was reading a fantasy novel once that was set in another world. And there was a scene were the characters encountered some llamas. And that threw me right out of the story. I was thinking “This is a completely different world. Why would there be llamas there?”
And then I realized I was being dumb. Other animals like horses, dogs, cats, and birds had been mentioned. And of course humans. And I hadn’t questioned any of that. So if you have a different world with those animals, why can’t you also have llamas?
What the hell is an aluminum falcon?
I don’t see a big problem here. Obviously the characters can’t really be speaking English, so we must assume the dialogue is translated from their language; likewise the ship name. So “falcon” isn’t really the word used in the name of the ship. It could be a translation of some word referring to a similar but not necessarily identical animal.
One might equally well wonder how Han can use the word parsecs (even incorrectly) when that’s a human created unit.
The falcon has a “cameo” in Revenge of the Sith . I think it’s just a quick shot of it sitting at space dock on the planet Coruscant
It also shows up in Spaceballs parked at the space truck stop where Lone Starr and Barf are.
Just because we’ve never seen a falcon, doesn’t mean they don’t exist on a planet somewhere in the galaxy.
They don’t use English letters, but the Rebels have ships like the a-wing, b-wing, u-wing, x-wing, and y-wing.
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That reminds me of this The less loved Star Wars wing fighters – Camestros Felapton
They also call someone Carrie when her name is Leia.
It was actually the Millennium Smeerp.
FWIW Mark Hamill has said on a few occasions that’s not the case
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What the hell is an aluminum falcon?
[/QUOTE]That is, I’m confident, the funniest line of dialogue in that entire series. Certainly my favorite.
Anyway, the notion of an alien “falcon” just reminds me of taking a banal simile and spacing it up, i.e. “Why, you’re no bigger than a Tarkalian fieldmouse!” or “You’re as slimy as an Aldeberian eel!” I get that the dialogue has to be accessible to the audience, so while it might be reasonable within in the fiction to name the ship “The Millennium Grosnola” (grosnolas being the fiercest flying predators of the planet Sli’t’h’ihcanio, a fact generally known to the society inhabited by the characters), it’s just a distraction to the viewer.
One of the weird inconsistencies in Star Wars is they established an alphabet as their default basic language, called Aurebesh, but numbers are all still the same as ours. Then they refer to ships called X-Wings even though Aurebesh has no X.
By which you mean the funniest line in Robot Chicken, or the funniest line in Star Wars?
Well, there are a few other Robot Chicken moments that I think are pretty close. Bitch Pudding’s line at 2:08 of this clip is a contender, though to get the full flavor, you have to watch the whole sequence starting from 1:06 or earlier.
Anyway, that’s a whole other topic.
He did. If you can ever get a chance to see the original print of the movie (I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen at a charity event in 93 or 94) he says Carrie plain as day. They apparently muddied the audio in future prints. You can tell it is an original print because it doesn’t have 3P0’s narration about the tractor beam.