Film Theory: How Disney RUINED Han Solo! (Star Wars) 

You forgot in the intro that lando is also a general. He literally sold out their biggest figures to vader

Thanos can't snap, Han can't fly... What's next? Dora can't explore???

So basically han solo has aimbot.

MatPat: He can’t start of being amazing at everything. Rey: Watch me.

The only defense I can give for Han is when talking about the kessel run he never says he did it. He brags about the falcon saying that it is the ship that made the run.

C-3PO In ESB: "Captain Solo, I don't know where your ship learned to talk but it has quite the dialect" I'm just gonna leave this here

Isn’t Han’s driving actually pretty good up to that point at the start though? He pulls some good drifts and manages to navigate a crowded street. Also, he must have some decent knowledge to be able to flip a car he stole the exact same day 90 degrees on command. The only thing that actually stops him is overconfidence, he probably would have made it otherwise.

In all fairness, Han probably became general for something fairly small, like, I don't know: _helping to destroy the first Death Star_ . Holdo he is not.

that' why in a comic R2-D2 can talk to the falcon

“He runs into a side of a mountain!” Shows footage of him not running into the mountain.

I mean with L3 in the Falcon, it's just like having a really detailed google maps installed for your car. So maybe it tells you where to go, but you still have to be good at driving to follow the route. Not to mention, maybe the reason why Han's flying got good when he was in the Falcon is that the Falcon is a good ship. I mean most of the time you hear Han bragging more about his ship, calling it the "fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy". Han isn't a failure of a pilot, he's a great pilot with an even greater ship.

I really *REALLY* thought you were going to say that it’s actually Chewy who pilots all the time

The irony of this theory for me was you saying, "Han is a liar" right in the beginning, and my immediate thought was, "You didn't realize that years ago?"

Of course he can't fly. He's not a bird.

12 parsecs meaning he found the most direct route, also he's slightly force sensitive, in the 4000-5000 range.

I stand by the fact that the ships of starwars aren't given enough love. This video proves that even more

ALSO DON'T FORGET C3PO SPOKE TO THE MILLENNIUM FALCON! AND I QUOTE "SIR I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR SHIP LEARNED TO SPEAK, BUT IT HAS THE MOST PECULIAR DIALECT!" MIND BLOWN!

I could be wrong but I don’t remember Han ever bragging about his piloting skills. I only really remember him praising his ship

Well he did come into the Rebellion with a wealth of flight experience and his own ship capable of light speed. Before he even officially joined the Rebellion he rescued Princess Leia, helped get the plans to the Rebel base, and rescued Luke Skywalker so he could destroy the Death Star which means he Luke helped save the universe twice and rescued a very important member of the Rebellion and brought in a ship with light speed capability that he maintained ownership of all in one day. So it would make sense that his starting rank would be pretty high. Then after that he saved Luke from freezing to death and saved Leia from the attack on Hoth, saved from the Star Destroyer with his ingenious move of landing in top of the ship and powering down to hide from their sensors then just disconnecting and drifting away when they resleased their garbage and to top it off brought Lando and lord knows how many more new recruit from the Sky City into the Rebel Alliance which probably earned him a promotion or two...

Film theory: “since apparently none of you went to see the movie in theaters” Me: uh... I did! Did anybody else see it in theaters?

Also he was kicked our of flight academy because he disobeyed orderes

L3 37 has nevers had her memory whipped ever Looks at R2 D2 I'm sorry

Han was able to pilot the Millennium Falcon, A freighter through the maelstrom while being pursued by TIE fighters. He held his own for the duration until L3 could be hooked up to the navigation system. Han is a good pilot.

Just rewatched the scene of the Kessel run. Yes L3 is interfaced with the ship and she is a GPS of sorts she doesnt fly for him. Not only that, Han does crazy manoeuvers before she is even connected. (The drft in the asteroid). He was ok at best sure because he was overconfident and reckless but he found a ship that could keep up with him. Even before L3 giving the exact position out he just knew "left-ish" he says "I see it". He's also better than Lando there

My question is; does Han know? Maybe he actually thinks he's an awesome pilot.

Han didn’t lie. He tells Obi Wan that “it’s the ship that made the kessel run in 12 parsecs” he never sold himself as the pilot that made the run in 12.

How to win the war: 1. Get a bunch of recicled Vulture droid-fighters or other seppy aircraft. 2. Ctrl+c 3. Ctrl+v 4. Repeat. 5. Profit.

0:18 He was frozen for a half a year

Rey doesn’t count cos she started off with max stats

I think it was already establised that Han can't fly when we saw him fall after Kylo stabbed him...his wife tho...

Here’s the thing: Rey being able to fly the Falcon is linked to her being a force user. And Lando knows the ship like the back of his hand in RotJ. It was his and he’s a great pilot. L3 didn’t have anything to do with them

I haven't and probably will never see the prequel but the original trilogy is all I need to read this character. He gets by more on reputation than skill. I thought it was obvious that his goofy, oblivious, haphazard way of stumbling through things (but luckily pulling through) WAS the definition of his character and what endears his fans to him.

13-37 is a navigator droid not a piloting droid 13-37 helps navigate Han she doesn't fly the falcon

Okay MattPat, here is something you missed. Solo didn't get kicked out of the flight academy because of he lacked skill, he got kicked out because he wanted to think for himself (he didn't like being ordered around). So there is that for you.

Yea so your saying that l3 is bassicly is the one who's piloting the ship so even when han turns the wheel or wutever it wasn't him???

A GPS tells you where to go, not drive the car.

Ofcourse he cant fly HE DOESN'T HAVE WINGS

Howdy so I have just gotten around to finally watching Solo and I have to respectfully disagree with this theory. Normally I don’t comment on these videos agree or disagree but for the sake of discourse I might as well. So, firstly Han wasn’t kicked out of flight school because of his flying ability, he was kicked out specifically for “having a mind of his own” which implies either he disobeyed orders or he tried to specialize his own piloting style. Secondly, in the open minutes on Corellia it is true that Han fails the “thread the needle” maneuver, but he almost makes it and simply miscalculates the width of the alleyway, which says nothing about his piloting ability. Lastly, L3’s consciousness is put into the falcons Navicomputer, meaning she can help the ship to navigate, but she has no actual control over the flying of the ship itself, meaning that Han’s increase of skill is evident as he navigates the Maelstrom. Furthermore, he does some impressive flying to evade the TIE fighters before L3 was ever uploaded into the computer. So, I believe it is safe to say that Han Solo is and will always be the PILOT who made the Kessel run in 12 Parsecs. But hey that’s just a theory, my theory. Thanks for reading.

4:21 oh hey Rathalos, I wasn’t expecting you to be here

Also, what Disney could have put in that Millennium Falcon chase scene is that Tey suddenly comments: “I’ve never flown this thing before, yet it’s responding to me more smoothly than I imagined. It’s almost like the ship is flying *itself.* “

Your theory makes sense and I agree. But is it correct to call him a fraud? It's been a while since I've watched the Original Trilogy, but when I think about Han boasting I can't remember when he boasts about his flying skills. It's usually him bragging about his ship. He says- when trying to sell to Obi-Wan and Luke- that his SHIP made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, not himself. Just a thought. It also gives deeper meaning every time Lando and Han say it's not their fault when the hyperdrive fails. XD

MatPat do you think you can figure out how much SpongeBob makes a year?

Matpat: Han Solo can’t be perfect! Rey: Hold my beer

0:38 in subtitles

WHAT! He has to drop the Hyper fuel because the marauders were pulling on the fuel at the same time heading for the mountain, they both would have crashed into the mountain otherwise! "Why doesn't he just turn right," Wow okay.

This is the type of stuff that would get you tortured in the old Inquisition days.

Soon the next theory will be: "Dora can't explora"

People are predictable. Like if you get the reference.

The expanded universe version was much cooler. He was at the top of his class at pilot academy, but leaves imperial service when he commits insubordination by helping out a wookie slave that was being abused (Chewbacca). Wedge and Hobbie Klivian are also much cooler in the EU. Wedge started out as a smuggler who worked for the Rebellion, while Hobbie defected with Biggs after they mutinied and took over a modified acclamator repurposed to be a fighter carrier.

Not gonna lie, Han actually being a mediocre pilot and all of his achievements being due to someone else (a super ai ship) seems perfectly in character to me. At least as far as the films go, I know nothing about the non-movies

While the theory does make some good points, it ignores the fact that Rey is force sensitive and strong with the force so her ability to thread the needle could be due to the fact she has sharper reflexes (as Force users tend to be gifted pilots especially if they are a protagonist, which includes Anakin, Luke, and by extension Rey). Not saying the Falcon's navigator didn't help, but I think there is more to Rey's piloting skills than just having the best navigation computer in the galaxy. Personally I think that Disney just didn't know how to write a good Han Solo movie.

Easily my fave theory! Seen this one a few times! Great channel! 🤟🏻👍🏻

In the old Legends canon, the Millennium Falcon had multiple droid brains installed in it.

5:30 Han Solo couldn’t pull right because his cables weren’t all secure he only had 2 cables attached and if he were to pull away his cables would have detach

And this is exactly why The Han Solo Trilogy by Ann C. Crispin will forever remain Han's true canonical backstory to me, no matter what Disney has to say about it.

In return of Jedi,that Lando scene you were talking about at a bit earlier Han Solo flew a different ship and flew it just as well.

Matpat u forgot in episode IV a new hope c3po says “ I don’t know how your ship learned to talk” And Han Quickly gets c3po off of the console,

Han was kicked from the academy for not following orders

Discard the fact that they removed the l3 program in the worm cabe in episode 5.

Love the channel but han solo had years to learn how to fly from solo to now

I thought everyone knew he was a con artist, even from watching the original trilogy I thought that was his thing, lying to Jaba lying to Luke and Ben that's why hes famous hes an amazing con artist.

You kept saying he wasn’t a good smuggler as well, then never showed any evidence other than the one scene in Solo where he blows up the cargo. In tfa, he hadn’t had the millennium falcon in years, but he had been doing smuggling mission a lot, and that most likely implies that he had to have been a decent pilot.

I love how u used the ghost vehichle for some of explanation

Okay so he got the description of the movie wrong in the order of events, Rey in force awakens specifically says she’s a pilot, the thread the needle move has not only been done in the millennium falcon (Poe does it in last Jedi while destroying the dreadnought cannons and running from tie fighters), it was also chewy who was piloting on Crait and Rey was the gunner, everybody who has done the thread the needle move has been known at LEAST as a pretty good pilot (lando, Han, chewy, and Rey), Han was also trying to fly away from the mountains but the people on speeder bikes were pulling on the coaxium container pulling Han towards the mountains forcing him to let go of the coaxium, Han was kicked out of flight school because he was a rule breaker not because he was a crappy pilot (it’s a school they wouldn’t kick him completely out they would just make him go back to the basics or something), it also shows Rey and Han controlling the falcon while they were doing the move sometimes. Ok... I THINK I’m done (I feel very strongly about Star Wars and I’m sorry if I make you mad it’s just that Han is one of my fav characters so...).

Ok, I’m gonna be that guy for just a moment: “Oh yeah? Well that may be true but, HE STILL SHOT FIRST!”

He is actually a good pilot. One of the best at his academy. He got expelled because he disobeyed orders.

Thanks for bringing light to this matter

And in episode 5 C-3PO "spoke to the ship" and told everyone that it "told" him what to do to fix the ship

um did mattpat actually watch solo bc he loses the card game for the falcon but wins in the end of the movie

You forgot to mention how C-3PO noted that the Falcon had a strange programming language when they were in the cave. Due to him being a protocol droid, he is likely not proficient in the piloting droid's (aka L3) language.

He does one thing and instantly gets promoted to general. Are you sure this is not Skyrim?

Even if Han isn’t a good pilot, he will always be the badass that we know and love

I think the original movies were pretty clear that most of what Han was saying was bravado. He was talking himself up as this fantastic pilot, but nobody actually believed him. Han's a decent pilot, but he's no master of the craft.

Captain America dies in Star Wars: IX

Pilot:"we are entering the asteroid field" Commander:"engage plot armour"

I like the closed captions on the intro

Actually MatPat, *_Han IS the best in the Galaxy._* I also saw Solo so I know that L3-37's memory drives wasn't installed into the Falcon's Navigational System until about halfway through Han's flight through the Kessel Run _and even then_ all those drives did was find a safe path, the dialogue given in the scene makes it *very* clear that Han still had to actually pilot the ship. _In other words,_ L3 can't fly the ship in her current state. And before it was installed he was still piloting, _even pulling off an evasive manoeuvre that killed a friend of his when they tried it,_ through a Cosmic Storm where you couldn't more than ten metres ahead of you, as well as been filled with random asteroids. And later on in *Episode V* when he was running through from the Empire he successfully piloted through an Asteroid Field, while other pilots in smaller ships _crash & burned._ In real-life many sailors fear going through waters known for having Glaciers, cause even if they know to look out for them, they have no clue as to where those Glaciers are at the moment or what direction they're heading, it's a similar thing with asteroid fields, cause even if you can see the asteroids, you have no idea what path they are gong to take as there are just too many factor, for instance, the asteroids might knock each other around, thus constantly changing their course. And yes, he did pull of some pretty good evasive manoeuvres even getting two Star Destroyers to crash into on another, and when they did start heading for the Asteroid Field while performing repairs, they missed one by luck before the Falcon started getting hit by smaller asteroids, which didn't destroy the ship due to the deflector shields been up, which caused Han and Chewie to did the repairs to go back to flying the ship. *Seriously watch the scene again:* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KvJDItC6tE0.html Also *Episode VII* shows exactly why he's the best pilot in the Galaxy when he successfully lightspeeds past the First Order's refractor shields , then pulls out of Lightspeed before the Falcon could end up crashing into the planet. Nobody else has that unique combination of Skill & Luck to even have a hope of pull that off As for Rey been able to pilot so well, a prequel comic to *Episode VII* reveals that she's self-taught via using flight simulator programs and the Prequel movies, particularly *Episode I* during the tuning up of Anakin's Pod Racer, reveals Force-Sensitive people are natural pilots who can subconsciously react to things before they even happen Finally, to 100% put your argument to bed. I the canon tv show, *Star Wars Rebels* one of the main characters, Hera Syndulla, is widely recognised in-universe as one of the best pilots in the Galaxy and flies a completely different ship, yet even she needs her droid Chopper or C1-10P for navigational purposes

He only dropped the payload because the people on the bikes were attached to it and there would have been no way to get them off it and keep the payload

It's a navigation droid not a piloting droid that is why she was landos co pilot not pilot

I love that he uses the ghost from rebels and mat if you read this nice job with that

This theory is kinda plausible.

Other than what Han was doing on the Kesssel Run while the droid was currently dead and lying on a table..... Edit: During the Kessel Run, when they were being pursued by imperial star fighters, The navigation droid had been shot and Han was expertly flying the Millennium Falcon, dodging and destroying several Tie Fighters.

So this is just of group of arguments that show this theory ain't that solid. For one L3 is a navigation droid, plotting courses for Han to follow but not actually piloting. An when Han steps away, Chewbacca is the one that steps in who has shown to be a capable flyer himself. And other pilot we see is lando who is a great pilot himself. When it comes to Rey, after seeing the new trilogy i do not believe at all that Kennedy and Disney would ever know or think of L3 being the reason why Rey is good at flying. They just wanted her to be awesome at everything. (Side Note: Me as a long time fan no longer consider the new trilogy canon in my book). But also in the new trilogy though we come across Han in command of a bigger ship, possibly in bigger troubles than he was in the OG trilogy leading us to believe that he didn't need the falcon to be a good pilot and a successful smuggler. And back to the OG trilogy, i never really got the idea that they were trying to paint Han as this super amazing pilot in the first place. I always thought that they were just trying to make him off to be as the cool anti-hero guy who was a really good smuggler. It was Luke that the film was letting us know multiple times, was a good pilot, to have us believe he could hold is own in the final big battle and be the hero. So in ending this little rant 2 years after this video came out. Han is good pilot and smuggler not a flat out liar. An the new Disney trilogy is garbage an never happened.

I liked the solo move well and 3-p0 said “Your ship has a pretty diverse way to talk” I think that is how he said

Well it's a good thing I already thought his character was just a bullshitter and that's why I liked him lol

2:42 He didn't win the Falcon in the first card game. Even though Lando cheated, it wasn't the card game that gained them access to the Falcon for the mission!

the guy in the intro who says yes science looks like Chris from mrbeast! lol

I just now realize with captions the intro is just funny

Navigation isn't exactly the same as flight maneuver. Knowing where to go doesn't make you knowledgeable on what kind of flight pattern will work in deadly spacing (ha, get it?). She has parts from an astromech droid, but those are mainly for repairs and warp navigation with light piloting control much like R2D2. Sorry Matt, this one isn't that serious of a gotcha moment.

L3-37 is a navigational computer for Hyperspace calculations, not a computer for tight maneuvers in Realspace.

Wait couldn’t that just mean that Han was a good pilot until Disney took over?

love the subtitles in the intro

I haven't seen solo yet so i don't know, but someone i know says it should be renamed "solo, a starwars sidequest"

First Clone Wars gets relaunched, and now a star wars theory?(proceeds to put on SW swag) today is truly a blessed day.

What about when he destroyed the 1st death star in with you Matpat on this theory but what about the 1st death star...?

6:35 every Han Solo fan froze himself in Carbonite.

It's a good theory, but you may be giving L3 too much credit. More likely L3 is the navigation assist program. Like the Paper Clip guy from Microsoft Word. If only slightly more useful.

Never tell him the odds Edit: there were events that happened between the original trilogy. Which led to him being promoted to General.

Actually through basic theories of physics the Jessel run could probably be solve pretty quickly haha 😂

MatPat: says the Millenium Falcon is doing the flying because Rey has never flown before and is suddenly really good. Young Anakin and Luke: exist