You know nothing of Wookiee bonding.

It's very strange to me how you and several other people on this thread seem to think Harrison Ford was in any way obligated to keep playing the character as long as he's alive. That's not how it works.

No, but there are still nuances of Tommy Ross he's working out.

You're not wrong, but between TFA and the interstitial canon that's been established, they didn't even get 20 years out of it. The New Republic takes less time then that to become completely broken.

Unfortunately New-Honest-to-Gosh-It's-Canon-We're-Serious has already established that Han and Leia basically lived separate lives for the majority of their marriage, just visiting once in a while when their busy schedules permitted. They're like the Clintons of the GFFA.

He has a strap. And I can tell you from experience that there are bars in NYC where that absolutely counts as "clothed."

The only problem with the "de-specialized" editions is that everyone doesn't agree with about which changes were good and which were bad. It's an idiosyncratic experience. I think anyone with the time and resources should make his or her own edition and enjoy that one.

Well of course it was his father. Who do you think inherited the tapes?

There is absolutely a timeline where Harrison Ford would have been honored in this way by now — basically, if he had kept making good choices of non-action movies like Witness and Mosquito Coast he would not only have an honorary Oscar but probably a competitive one, as well. But after 1989 he basically focused on the…

In my version Ron Howard shows up as Leia's heretofore-unheard-of stepbrother who has come back from the army to watch Leia get married.

You're very kind. I wish I had had the time and strength to properly rhyme "Jedi" but none of the permutations of "red eye" and "dead eye" I could think of worked.

"I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee" was an absolutely vile thing said by George-Wallace-With-Buns.

I've not yet seen that (I don't really think MST3K is designed for binging), but I suspect they'll find a workaround for that. I can't imagine after all the hullabaloo they're just going to replace him with Chris Hardwick or Wil Wheaton or some other acceptable-for-TV nerd right off the bat.

I'm honestly not criticizing either of them as people or for their performances. But I also can't honestly see anything Patton Oswalt is doing in this show that makes me think he's working hard on it or doing anything that a hundred or more other non-celebrity cameos could have done. Frank Conniff WAS TV's…

Just because you can't understand him doesn't mean he doesn't have feelings!

So I've heard him say, but it seems a little specious to me, especially since they didn't worry about the movie turning into the Han Show once Harrison Ford stepped into a shot — they just let it happen, pretty much. Frankly, Han's death happens late enough in the movie that something similar to what Hamill suggested…

Who can blame you?

Yes, and Han got to fire a bowcaster for the very first time despite hanging around with the same guy for over 40 years.

Now, you might join the Sith, my friend
And I might join the Jedi
Still other folks might hang with Maz — this galaxy's Estelle Getty
Some wear a Wookie bandolier
Or Trooper gear, like Finn
But there is just one Force right here
That all of us are in…

"As a character, he wasn't so interesting to me. I thought he should have died in the last one,' just to give it some bottom, some gravitas.'"