CP3S said:

xhonzi said:

Also- not in that thread, but I do recall thinking that Tatooine->Alderaan was about 5 minutes, but someone suggested that they could be on the Falcon for days. It all seems to make more sense to me that way. Also- I think Zahn writes hyperspace as still taking significant time to travel. Not compared to realspace, but still not instantaneous.

I've always felt that the trip to Alderaan was the only place in any Star Wars film where they made it feel like space travel took a long time. Han walks out and gives them an arrival time, and the characters waste time playing chess and playing with laser swords. I've always gotten the impression that the trip took them several hours.

However, starting with The Empire Strikes Back, you start to feel getting from one end of the galaxy to the other takes about as much time and effort as getting from one end of a big city to the other. Though once you get to the PT, space travel suddenly feels instantaneous as they zip around from planet to planet. If Star Wars makes space travel feel like an intercontinental flight, and ESB and ROTJ make it feel like traveling around a big city, then the PT makes it feel like an extremely hyper kid on his bicycle bouncing around his neighborhood from one friend's house to the nest.

Maybe the Millenium Falcom isn't as powerful a ship as the ones in the new movies. When Luke first saw it, he called it a piece of junk. Maybe Han's ship took a little longer to travel than some of the "higher end" models that were around.