I just realized that the Star Wars sequels begin and end with one of the leads randomly changing their name to something somebody else gives them
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
This is a theme Disney seems to like a great deal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I can't believe Bob Iger approved the spec script for Solo solely because he believed the name thing was the coolest and most insightful thing he'd ever seen
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Now I'm wondering what weirdly impressionable executive somewhere totally had their mind blown by the Martha thing
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The thing about Martha is that it's a solid beat in principle - Batman dehumanizes Superman, but then sees his humanity by connecting him to his own loss. But you have to earn it, and BvS didn't. Superman randomly calling his mother by her first name makes no sense.
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Whereas "Solo" is just dumb. I mean, it would have worked as a throwaway line, like if Han was telling one of his buddies about it as a joke. But as a huge, ponderous moment like they tried to make it to be in the movie, it's absurd.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
It also is sort of an awkward attempt to dodge the fact that "Han Solo" was obviously made up to sound like an Asian name of some sort without talking to any Asian people and without any intention of casting an Asian actor
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail
I mean I guess "Solo" is a real surname, like Hope Solo and Ksenia Solo (it's Italian for "alone", which is where we get its English meaning, but it's also corruption of the Hebrew/Yiddish name Shlomo) And "Han" is Dutch for "Hans" (which is German for "John")
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I hope there's an alternate universe where they had to come up with a canon explanation for the name John Shlomo.
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Well he'd be Yochanan Shlomo in Hebrew school
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John Solomon on his business card for the goyim Ah fuck it's the name of the Russiagate guy
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I have to say, if the idea is Empire = Nazis, Han hiding his last name of Shlomo/Solomon makes all kinds of sense. Boy would that have been a better angle for Solo.
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