You were right about everything...until the last bit about the charts. Kessel is a planet that exists near a large collection of black holes called "The Maw". If you got too close to The Maw, the black holes would drag your ship in and you would be dead. But how close is "too close"? It depended on the mass and speed of your ship. Imperial ships were large and therefore couldn't get as close as the small smuggling ships, which is why the Kessel Run would bring the smuggler as close as was dared to The Maw. But the closer the smuggler gets to the gravity of the black holes, the faster his ship needed to be to escape the gravity. Han Solo's brag was NOT a mistake; he was saying his ship was fast enough to shortcut the Kessel Run down to only 12 parsecs (i.e. closer than anyone else) and still escape The Maw's gravity.
But the Parsec measurement is using earths distance to the sun as part of the equation. It uses the AU (Astronomical Unit) of 154 million KM and that is unique to the Earth Sun relationship. Starwars has no canon about Earth and would definitely not use that relationship to describe a measure of distance..
It’s not difficult. Whoever wrote the line didn’t know what a parsec was. And when they filmed it, no one caught the error. It’s a blown line. That’s it. It’s nothing else.
Lol what a bunch of nerds. Lucas threw the term parsec in the script without knowing what it meant. This fan backtracking to « keep the canon coherent » is cringy af.
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You were right about everything...until the last bit about the charts.
Kessel is a planet that exists near a large collection of black holes called "The Maw". If you got too close to The Maw, the black holes would drag your ship in and you would be dead. But how close is "too close"?
It depended on the mass and speed of your ship. Imperial ships were large and therefore couldn't get as close as the small smuggling ships, which is why the Kessel Run would bring the smuggler as close as was dared to The Maw. But the closer the smuggler gets to the gravity of the black holes, the faster his ship needed to be to escape the gravity.
Han Solo's brag was NOT a mistake; he was saying his ship was fast enough to shortcut the Kessel Run down to only 12 parsecs (i.e. closer than anyone else) and still escape The Maw's gravity.
Good analysis... Knew what a Parsec was but not about his charts 😉
I figured there'd be an out for Lucas if it was a mistake, but I couldn't quite figure out how. Grateful for this video, NEAT!
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But the Parsec measurement is using earths distance to the sun as part of the equation. It uses the AU (Astronomical Unit) of 154 million KM and that is unique to the Earth Sun relationship. Starwars has no canon about Earth and would definitely not use that relationship to describe a measure of distance..
In other words my guy took the rough short cut
Good Video!!
George Lucas was talking out of his butt and then tried to retcon it.
why
they had to create a story to fill the mistake in the script
@@iSteed21 everyone does it's the new hot thing
It’s not difficult. Whoever wrote the line didn’t know what a parsec was. And when they filmed it, no one caught the error. It’s a blown line. That’s it. It’s nothing else.
you said this in another post. I agree.he was taking about how fast his ship was not the navigation system.
It could still work perhaps he took tons of short cuts other smugglers wouldn't
@@thesmilingman7576 That’s Retcon. The whole point of the conversation was how fast of the ship was. Not how ingenious the navigator was.
Lol what a bunch of nerds. Lucas threw the term parsec in the script without knowing what it meant.
This fan backtracking to « keep the canon coherent » is cringy af.
Lmao exactly