I Saw A Meme, Dont Have It Though, Where It Says That Seeing Chewie Is 190-200 Years Old In The OT It

I saw a meme, don’t have it though, where it says that seeing Chewie is 190-200 years old in the OT it means that Han is his third or fourth Human.

Bonus: Chewie actually PETS Han in RotJ.

oh my god IT’S TRUE

I love Self Forefilling Prophecies.

“The quote is simple enough, it’s Qui-Gon’s defense of Anakin after Obi-Wan insists that he and the entire Council can see that Anakin is dangerous.

‘His fate is uncertain. He’s not dangerous.’

And it’s true, Anakin wasn’t dangerous, not at this point. Ani was a relatively happy little boy who was expressive, emotive, and unerringly kind, who had been raised to think intelligently for himself and problem-solve along the way. But the things that made him a good person in normal circumstances were the very things that turned the Jedi Order against him. The Jedi would need to take everything that was /Ani/ away and instill their own doctrines, beliefs, and ways of seeing the galaxy to make him one of them, but at his advanced age, Anakin’s personality was likely setting into place. They wouldn’t be able to fully overcome his own instincts and opinions – he wasn’t a baby or a toddler who they could teach or force to think how they chose – therefore he was /dangerous/, he was other, and they immediately treated him as such.

Instead of welcoming him with acceptance and understanding or even compassion, the council immediately set themselves apart from Anakin and make it clear – to a child who had just escaped enslavement and had helped two of their own order – that he was not welcome in their company because he was going down the dark side path simply because he admitted to feeling fear. …In an entirely new place with strangers who are testing him left, right, and center, far away from the only source of love and security he’s ever know, it’s no wonder Ani is afraid. The Jedi use a little boy’s love of his mother to make him unworthy of their time and consideration, they twist love into a weakness and call themselves the better for it.

…Qui-Gon was right. Anakin wasn’t dangerous until the Jedi made him so. The Jedi created their own destruction and it eventually cost them everything. I think this is a theme that often goes overlooked because it’s the ‘good-guys’ doing the wrong things and we like to turn a blind eye to that sort of thing, but it bears noting that the same thing happens again in the sequel trilogy. Lessons are not being learned here. Ben Solo struggled with the darkness inside himself all his life, but it was Luke – a Jedi – who sealed his fate and the galaxy’s by deciding for everyone that his nephew was /dangerous/ and needed to be dealt with. Another great evil is born because of the judgement of the peace-keeping righteous. And it’s just as Rey says, Luke created Kylo Ren, the same way the Council created Darth Vader, and it began here in The Phantom Menace.”

—The Phantom Menace: Judgement and Consequence

(via whimsicalmutterings.wordpress.com)

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It’s funny because until I mentioned specifically that I was talking about Leia and Han she seemed to be coming down on their side. “Parents probably shouldn’t prioritize their children above everything else” but once I said that the character in question was the son of Han and Leia ‘oh, they shouldn't have kids because they’re too selfish to be good parents’.

On some level I do agree that they were selfish but I would say it was more of Leia was young, only 24-25, when she had Ben and being a parent is a huge responsibility and on top of that she was a Senator in the New Republic. And if I understand what I have heard about Leia, Princess of Alderaan correctly, haven’t been able to read the book yet, her caretakers were mostly Droids so she wouldn’t have thought too much about leaving Ben in the care of Droids and she probably didn’t feel like she could really ask anyone for parenting advice or people would offer advice that she didn’t feel comfortable with.

My SIL, the same one in the Ask, told me that I don’t need a crib for my baby and that a Pack and Play will do just fine but that means that the Pack and Play has a dual purpose, sleep and play, and what if I put him in there when he misbehaves then could create confusion about what the Pack and Play means to him. it is where he sleeps? Is it where he plays? Is it where he goes if he hurts the cat?

Han is harder but right now my husband is more excited about becoming a Father than he is with acknowledging the responsibilities that come with becoming a Father. He still wants to get things he doesn’t need because of X. I can’t tell you how many Yugi-oh Cards he has beyond more than enough to fill what I think is a duffel bag big enough to haul sports equipment and they still don’t all fit in it. I think he’s played with them maybe once or twice in the 18 months we have been married and asking him to sell them or teach kids at the YMCA seems to border on blaspheme; especially the teaching kids how to play part since he’s more open to selling some of them but complains about more than likely not getting a lot for the cards.

The point is Han would have to do a lifestyle change and from the sound of things in The Last Shot Han was a Stay at Home Dad when other things weren’t calling for his attention and for someone that was used to not having a house or family to return to it would be a massive change to suddenly have a wife and son to return to and not just ‘onto the next mission’ and being rootless.

And if Han was the parent that was able to be home more often by the simple virtue of being free more often than Leia was he would have had to deal with Ben’s potential Force aided meltdowns. My nephew ‘Ronnie’* when he was almost two had a meltdown in the car because there wasn’t anymore juice for him to drink and my niece ‘Chibi’* who was seven at the time had a meltdown over me turning off the TV and refusing to turn it back on until she got dressed for the day since it was after 10:30; there was a lot of ‘turn the TV back on!’ and ‘not until you get dressed’ going on.

Now imagine a similar situation to the ones above but the child in question can make objects not bolted down shake, rattle and maybe even float and flying around when they’re angry or even snatch the remote out of your hands without touching it and there’s NOTHING you can do to stop them from doing it.

In the Star Wars Legends someone (Han or Luke) recalls how the youngest Solo, Anakin, would have Force Assisted Temper Tantrums where everything in the room would end up against the walls. It was either played for laughs or just a memory, I can’t remember, but in all honesty that would be terrifying to witness a three year old trashing a room.

Another Blogger who has Special Needs children said it’s hard and it is. My younger brother ‘Joe’* was nonverbal for several years and on top of that was a Houdini; turn your back to him long enough he would push the needed objects in front of an outside door so he could get up high enough to push aside the chain installed near the top and run off and the whole neighborhood would go looking for him.

We have resources available for parents with Special Needs children whether it be Respite or Speech Lessons, this is how Joe learned how to speak, or support and resources but Leia and Han wouldn’t have had the same resource for Ben since there no doubt aren’t any books lying around that talk about different methods to use or try when raising a Force Sensitive Child. They would have been on their own and unsure how to properly handle it since they probably didn’t want to outright discourage him using the Force but didn’t want to encourage it either.

And that’s not even touching on Snoke’s interference and the Shadow of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader that hung over Leia and Han.

TL:DR  parenting is hard and parents make mistakes thinking that they are making good choices.

* Not the person’s real name

I talked to one of my SILs about Ben a bit and how he was raised, can’t remember the exact context (pairings?), and at first I didn’t mention it was Star Wars and when I did and mentioned who his parents were she, having not seen TFA or TLJ and not being a big Star Wars fan, immediately said ‘they’re both too selfish to be good parents and I felt that way for years and people are surprised when I say that. Good people but would make bad parents’.

^^^

Yeah. I’m not a fan of people who villainize Han and Leia as these horrible parents either, but one of the things that I think makes the current iteration of Skywalker family drama so compelling is that it’s this complex web of fault and mistakes and tragedy that is both and neither. Han and Leia clearly loved Ben, loved him deeply, but that wasn’t enough to protect him and give him what he needed. And frankly, I think that’s more true to life to a lot of our experiences with our families than a mustache twirling scenario where Han and Leia just let him be raised by a coffee maker in a cave somewhere or where they were perfect and Ben was a bad seed. That’s what makes it so moving and compelling, that Ben and Han and Leia have all loved and hurt each other in equal measure. And it’s what makes Han’s desperate attempt to save his son a redemption for him and for the ways he failed Ben without even meaning to– Ben’s redemption is his family’s also.

I think this article does a good job explaining why some fans hate things.

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