General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 300

Just let it sink in that he’s laying down ONE BILLION DOLLARS on this. Holy shit. I can’t imagine having four million bucks in my account, let alone four billion. Forget all the hundreds of millions from Star Wars over the years. Insane amounts of cash.

Good for him. I might not agree with the direction he took Star Wars in, but I respect the man in a major way.

SilverWook said:

And it’s going to bring in tourists and money. Those other cities will be kicking themselves eventually.

To misquote an old joke I heard about Paul McCartney, George could lose his wallet with a million bucks in it, and not mind very much. 😉

Well if you see it, let me know.

So I know this is a random thought, but do you think that rebel was really named Porkins, of is that a mean nickname that the other rebels gave him do to his size?

Good thought. I’m sure Lucas intended “Porkins” as his surname, but this could easily be retconned to an in-universe nickname: the third draft refers to Porkins as “Piggy”!

Remember when people were pissed that Diego Luna wasn’t playing Biggs, because he has a mustache?

robertelee said:

So I know this is a random thought, but do you think that rebel was really named Porkins, of is that a mean nickname that the other rebels gave him do to his size?

I’ve always assumed Porkins was his nickname.
Same with Han Solo. I figured Han used Solo as a last name to avoid the lawn such. But the EU and now ST have made it his actual last name. Lucky for me, I don’t care much for those things.

JEDIT: After looking at a discussion in the TFA Review thread, I may be wrong about the ST making Solo Han’s official last name. Looks like I may have assumed something here that didn’t happen. Having only seen that film once, I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong.

timdiggerm said:

Remember when people were pissed that Diego Luna wasn’t playing Biggs, because he has a mustache?

If you take the deleted scenes from Star Wars as canon (I do), then Biggs only joined the Rebels about a week before Luke got to Yavin. Wouldn’t make any sense to have Biggs involved in that story.

ray_afraid said:

timdiggerm said:

Remember when people were pissed that Diego Luna wasn’t playing Biggs, because he has a mustache?

If you take the deleted scenes from Star Wars as canon (I do), then Biggs only joined the Rebels about a week before Luke got to Yavin. Wouldn’t make any sense to have Biggs involved in that story.

Just FYI;

According to the old EU, and I do believe it was implied in the radio play as well (which was “Lucas canon”), Biggs had actually joined the rebellion months before the deleted scene at Tosche station. Him returning to Tatooine and telling Luke half-truths (he had already gone to Bestine) was two-fold; to “recruit” Luke to the rebellion as well as creating a sort-of alibi should he be arrested.

Either way it’s a nice little head-canon possibility. It is for me anyway.

That seems overly complicated for no reason or pay off. If he was trying to recruit Luke, why didn’t he ask him to come with? Or give Luke a way to make contact? I don’t remember this being implied in the radio play, but could be.

ray_afraid said:

robertelee said:

So I know this is a random thought, but do you think that rebel was really named Porkins, of is that a mean nickname that the other rebels gave him do to his size?

I’ve always assumed Porkins was his nickname.
Same with Han Solo. I figured Han used Solo as a last name to avoid the lawn such. But the EU and now ST have made it his actual last name. Lucky for me, I don’t care much for those things.

JEDIT: After looking at a discussion in the TFA Review thread, I may be wrong about the ST making Solo Han’s official last name. Looks like I may have assumed something here that didn’t happen. Having only seen that film once, I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong.

wat

Tyrphanax said:

ray_afraid said:

robertelee said:

So I know this is a random thought, but do you think that rebel was really named Porkins, of is that a mean nickname that the other rebels gave him do to his size?

I’ve always assumed Porkins was his nickname.
Same with Han Solo. I figured Han used Solo as a last name to avoid the lawn such. But the EU and now ST have made it his actual last name. Lucky for me, I don’t care much for those things.

JEDIT: After looking at a discussion in the TFA Review thread, I may be wrong about the ST making Solo Han’s official last name. Looks like I may have assumed something here that didn’t happen. Having only seen that film once, I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong.

wat

Sorry, that was supposed to read “law n’ such”, not “lawn such”.
😉

ray_afraid said:

Tyrphanax said:

ray_afraid said:

robertelee said:

So I know this is a random thought, but do you think that rebel was really named Porkins, of is that a mean nickname that the other rebels gave him do to his size?

I’ve always assumed Porkins was his nickname.
Same with Han Solo. I figured Han used Solo as a last name to avoid the lawn such. But the EU and now ST have made it his actual last name. Lucky for me, I don’t care much for those things.

JEDIT: After looking at a discussion in the TFA Review thread, I may be wrong about the ST making Solo Han’s official last name. Looks like I may have assumed something here that didn’t happen. Having only seen that film once, I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong.

wat

Sorry, that was supposed to read “law n’ such”, not “lawn such”.
😉

Now I have even more questions!