Why It's Crazy That Han Solo Doesn't Believe In The Force

Hokey religion? JEDIS RAN THE MILITARY LIKE 20 YEARS AGO!

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[thomasgendzwill]

Han Solo is officially 29 in New hope and the fall of the republic happened 18 years prior. That puts him at 11, his homeworld of Correllia was also a site for building of imperial starships so he was probably exposed to lot of anti jedi propaganda, making it pretty reasonable that jedi would be pretty far fetched for him.

[CritScratch]

its weird that there are characters that believe the force isn't real...how does that happen?

[AlongCameJosh]

Wait.... So Han Solo is.... Todd Howard??

[XoxeroThePoet]

For the record, I think he believes that the Jedi have magic powers but he doesn't believe in the force as a religion.

I think he views it like if a group of people suddenly gained psychic powers (Looper) and everybody assigned a light/dark side to certain people, then claimed that there are religious overtones behind the powers.

Basically, I think he's saying that the powers are real, but the religion behind the force is fake. Which makes more sense than what the Jedi and Sith claim.

[danr.]

To be honest lots of grown adults now don't even know who runs the government, I'm pretty sure Han never paid any attention to politics..like at all.

[graveyardshift]

To be fair we have people who don't believe gravity, so I can see something similar happening in SW

[schwarzerritter]

One thing you have to consider: Space is big!
There is like one, maybe two Jedi per PLANET. And many have a much higher population that Earth. Almost nobody has ever seen a Jedi. Their abilities must just be a rumour.
After all, if Jedi could really do those magic tricks, why are they all dead?

[JeffrevinYT]

"Your pal Chewie here was best buds with Yoda!"
And got rescued by another Jedi. cough snips

[sandwich]

"You had to be like 15!"

wait leia wasent even Born yet ಠ_ಠ

[godphoenixx]

Han Solo actually started believing in The Force on Bespin's Cloud City when Vader took his blaster out of his hand with a Force pull. There was no denying that The Force was very real to Han after being humbled by Vader's power.

[Algoboard]

1:05 - 1:10
"But what about the *wookie* attack on the *droids* ?"

[optimusprime-hc]

If I remember correctly Lucas hadn’t determined how and when the clone wars had happened yet, when he was making the originals the Wars were a vague concept that had no set place in the universe’s history yet

[thefreddyshow]

It’s funny Obi-Wan called upon the ancient powers of the universe to hit solo in the head with a tennis ball.

[unclenurgle]

It's almost like Episode IV was made in the 1970s before Lucas had written all the backstory for what would become the prequel trilogy decades later.

[marioramunno]

if I'm remembering correctly he's 24 in a new hope and revenge of the sith is 19-20 years before that meaning he would have been like 4 or 5 so not recognizing the jedi is pretty understandable

EDIT
since writing this I've realized he's actually 29 in ANH. so he would've been 10. I'm guessing he only ever heard about the jedi but never really new about them

[blueeyesaf]

Thing is, how many generals do you know? I can't name a one beyond a couple from WWII. And there were very few jedi, only ten thousand, which sounds like alot, but when you consider the fact there are literally millions of inhabited planets in the Star Wars universe and therefor countless trillions of people, jedi are pretty rare. The average person would have gone their whole life not even knowing someone that MET a jedi, let alone meeting one them self. It's a bit of a stretch, but not a huge one.

[danbrew]

He actually uses the force vaguely on several occasions.
"I got a bad feeling about this" is just the layman's "I sense a disturbance in the force"

[MrClickity]

Han not believing in the Force and all that is actually pretty reasonable. Han probably had heard rumors about the Jedi but had never actually seen one in action. Makes sense that a cynical guy like him would've dismissed the rumors as exaggerations.

The bit about Chewie being friends with Yoda was a stupid retcon, though. It fucks up all sorts of moments from the original trilogy.

[georgesears]

To be fair the galaxy is kind of a big place. There has to be a ton of planets that were only ostensibly familiar with the republic or the magnitude of the greater empire. At its height the Jedi council was around 10, 000 people which includes students and younglings who would never leave Coruscant. It wouldn't be all that surprising if a ton of planets had one jedi show up once every few years AT BEST, and that jedi wouldn't be able to visit every last corner of an entire world.

[jackyoh]

In same time some people think we never go on the moon...