G E Predator said:
Bingowings said:
G E Predator said:
Survived the freezing process, he did. Survive the time being frozen in suspended animation is another consideration. Suspended animation is supposed to slow down the life process by external means without termination. However, if left in suspended animation for too long, the victim could indeed die while in hybernation.
Upon being freed from the carbonite in ROTJ, Han experienced these symptoms: temporary blindness, nausea, and firing nerves upon awakening. This is evidence that Han was encased in carbonite for only a few months. Hence, little time had to have passed between ESB and ROTJ.
It's a Science Fiction/Fantasy process.
For all we know the handsome pirate could have been turned to stone for a hundred years before the daring Princess broke the dark Wizard's spell with her kiss and still suffer the same side effects, he could suffer the same effects after 5 minutes.
Until you can take Carbonite and hibernation sickness into a real world lab any story you want to make up for the time frame could be made to fit.
It could be a hard war which explains why everyone has aged three years in three months or it was three years.
That wasn't the point, Bingowings. My point was to explain that the time span between Empire and Jedi was very short. And 100 years? Com'n, think about it. Do you seriously think Leia would wait 100 years to sneak into Jabba's palace and free Han from the carbonite slap? I don't think so.
And BTW, if you haven't heard about it already, it's call "Cryogenic Freezing." It's a real world method of freezing people in suspended animation for a period of time.
And just because the actors aged three years doesn't mean that the characters did. Case and point: Back to the Future part 1 was made in 1985 while Back to the Future part 2 was made in 1989. So logically, the actor (Michael J. Fox) aged 4 years between films. But since part 2 picks up where part 1 leaves off, the character (Marty McFly) doesn't age at all.
My knowledge about what the heroes of Star Wars were doing is based upon my reading of "Shadows of the Empire," which occurs after Empire and ends right where Jedi begins. It's a really good story, and considered canon material in the Star Wars Universe.
The scientific term you want is Cryonic (Cryogenics is the study of the production of very low temperatures) and while that may have be a real world background to it sealing people in blocks of carbonite (a fictional substance) is used in the Star Wars universe as a replacement for the mythical petrification devices (spells, gorgon stares, poisoned apples and bewitched sewing needles etc) from ancient stories (ergo the 100 years reference).
It's a fictional process we know nothing about and EU is as much canon as you wish it to be (as the body of work as a whole is contradictory and the some of the Shadows Of The Empire project was pretty naff and largely unknown to the bulk of viewers it could be dismissed).
The actors have clearly aged a lot more than a few months, as I said in my earlier post that could be down to the stress of fighting a war or because three years have gone by in the Star Wars universe (or maybe in a galaxy far far away people just get older at a faster rate).
So it's up to the editor and the viewer.