When he said he never came back from “this awful place” he was probably referring to Tatooine.
Yup, you’re right. He says “Lando Calrissian and poor Chewbacca never returned from this awful place.”
Because Lando and chewie immediately left for tatooine at the end of empire.
You both are right but I think it’s also fair to say it’s open to interpretation. If one believes 3PO meant Jabba’s palace for “awful place”, that is equally just as valid. So both ways do work, imo. It just depends on how you personally interpret it and your point of view 😉
Considering 3P0 mentions Chewie not coming back as they’re on the way to the palace, would it be feasible to cut the scene of Leia arriving in disguise and handing over Chewie? Just cut straight to her sneaking in to free Han, getting captured, and we first see Chewie as Han arrives in the cell. Makes the plan less convoluted.
100% agreed, +1, and “would buy from again”, nightstalkerpoet! Count me in as someone who also dislikes - nay - loathes(!) the Leia-handing-Chewie-over scene 😄 Look, I’m all for any ideas of improving and keeping original scenes wherever possible, but if an entire sequence is arguably a bad idea in the first place and causes additional problems of its own, it just needs to go in my honest & humble opinion. Also by eliminating this scene, not only will it help make the disjointed rescue plan feel less convoluted, as you said nighstalkerpoet, but I do think it will help improve the pacing of the first act, which (to me at least), does kinda drag on during the Jabba’s Palace scenes and could be tightened up a bit. And another point I’ll finish with is (from my wishlist):
For improving the original nonsensical rescue plan, Leia should not be surrendering Chewie, a friend, with hopes of rescuing their other friend Han (otherwise they are back at square one, or as it turns out, in a worse scenario). A few good memorable moments cut out, but with nostalgia aside, it is for the better this way. It works perfectly well to have Chewie already captured (by some other undisclosed way) and to see him for the first time in the prison cell with Han.
No idea, though, if Ady feels the same way or not, so I do look forward to watching his upcoming video updates revealing what he would like to do, and I’ll be supportive of whichever way he thinks is best for the scene in question 😃
Interesting idea you brought up from FB, FVDnz, and for sure worth mentioning! As much as I do like the idea of seeing more Boba/Slave I, yeah, I agree with timdiggerm and G&G Fan, it would be best not to have a scene just to show him delivering HiC - I too think it works fine already seeing HiC for the first time when Jabba reveals it to R2 and ‘captain obvious’/3PO 😉 I don’t remember where I heard this, but I remember listening to an experienced editor say something to that effect of: “When editing a film, every shot of every scene must be intentional. You show just enough so the audience gets it, but any more than that then you’re wasting their time” - makes perfect sense to me! And that, btw, is also why I feel it’d be beneficial doing without the Leia-handing-Chewie-over scene, because it doesn’t add anything essential for advancing the plot, just the same as a Boba-handing-Solo-over scene wouldn’t either.
And I definitely agree, G&G Fan, at surface level it does seem silly if it took Boba a whole year to deliver Han… Although (forgive me as I play a little bit of devil’s advocate here), I guess in The Mandalorian, Mando did have multiple bounties in his locker before cashing in on those, and so for all we know (we don’t know from the movies) maybe Fett had several captured bounties in his ship too, cashed in on all the others first (and possibly each at a different galaxy), then finally a year later got to Jabba’s - not saying this is how it happened, but it’s possible 😉 So maybe it’s not that ridiculous, after all, if one has that possibility in mind, and it would also explain why he is even still there at Jabba’s, instead of: delivering a year ago and still there a whole year later (not saying a busy bounty hunter can’t take a year off for some R&R, lol, as that’s entirely possible too)… Or, it’s equally possible he delivers Han, runs off to do other errands, and a year later returns here, of all the palaces in all the planets in all the galaxies, just to hang out (when you think of it, this too kinda sounds silly at surface level, but it’s certainly possible, especially since he is apparently known to work often with Jabba [plus, maybe Jabba was having a Thirsty Thursday Bubble Tea Night that lured Boba back??])… But anyway, again, it all kinda depends on one’s point of view as each way works about the same 😄