Uh... Prak. The twothree sides of the argument are:Prak wrote:I think you're two pages into an argument about the stupid parsecs thing.
Edit: also I think my head and back are fucking killing me today and I didn't sleep well, and food and caffeine only help so much and I should drop this whole thing.
1) Lucas made a mistake, and who fucking cares. Also the EU came up with an explanation because they sort of had to, lacking a time machine, the Force Awakens probably shouldn't have repeated any of it, because it destroyed the EU anyway, but even if they did, they should have made an actual explanation.
2) Lucas made a mistake, and that's really annoying, also the Force Awakens was dumb as shit for repeating it. What the fuck is in the EU? I don't know, I don't care, and I shouldn't have to.
3) Lucas did or didn't make a mistake, but Han Solo was totally just making up a really dumb lie because he's a really dumb bad liar who doesn't know what measurements are, but this is somehow a better character than a smuggler who is competent and good at his job, who if and when he lies, lies well. Also the EU is the devil, because even the act of writing the book that explains this as non-stupid statement destroys the movies retroactively, and then also in the future, after the EU is cast off, we can still blame it for shitty lines in a mediocre movie written by committee with a mediocre director.
Notice that like, absolutely no one is particularly defending Lucas, so... if you have no idea what the conversation is, maybe don't jump in with a strong opinion?