

#Millennium falcon movie#
But on the other hand, two hours seems a bit too fast to get there, even for a movie that's two hours long. Leia would probably have been dead by the time Luke and everyone got there to save her. First of all, two days seems like too long of a time to take to make a rescue. Depending on who you listen to, the time is said to be anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days. There's a lot of debate out there over how long it takes the Falcon to make the trip. Also, try as we might, we can't read minds, especially not those of fictitious characters.

Yes, the characters know this, but what does that matter if the viewers don't know it? This is not the kind of thing that the viewer is able to gleen from what is presented in the movie. This information was not in Star Wars, unless we missed something in the thousand or so times that we've watched it. While this may be true and does sound impressive, there's a bit of a problem with it. So Han wasn't necessarily talking about the Falcon's speed, but how well it can navigate, so the Millennium Falcon is fast in the sense that it is very maneuverable. So how does the 12 parsecs claim make it fast? Han was able to take a shortcut along this route, essentially coming very close to the black hole without getting sucked in. And apparently, there's a black hole somewhere on this route. According to the expanded universe literature, the Kessel Run is "an 18-parsec route used by smugglers," like Han. Now, in the Star Wars expanded universe, this measurement of time still counts as to how fast the Millennium Falcon is.
