11/11/2023 0 Comments Was han solo frozen in carbonite![]() ![]() Sure, Darth Vader's big reveal is big too, but the carbon freeze sets everything in motion for Return of the Jedi. It's also the most important scene in Empire Strikes Back. ![]() Out of eleven movies and countless TV episodes, cartoons, video games, and comic books, it remains the most gut-wrenching scene in any Star Wars story. Have other theories? Join Nerd on Earth’s Discord server or our IG-11 Facebook group and let’s nerd out over it.You don't have to be a die-hard Star Wars fan to remember the scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. So, no matter the theory, we’re all better for it. Regardless, the scene in Empire Strikes Back is iconic in cinema history, while carbon freezing in The Mandalorian has wonderfully deepened the Star Wars mythos in the franchise’s first live-action television show. Maybe carbon freezing doesn’t need to make sense from Empire to The Mandalorian because it’s a fictional world created for us to enjoy, not analyze against supposed laws of physics created for the fictional world. Advancement that had refined the process by the time of Dyn Jarren. Yet once it was successful on Han Solo, the usefulness in bounty hunting became evident and that sparked technological advancement on the technique. Perhaps carbon freezing hadn’t been specced for humans at the time of Empire Strikes Back, because really, who would freeze a human like that? Theory #4: There were technological advancements. That’s certainly in character for the smooth talking sabacc player. If that was the case, Lando was bluffing because he was stalling for time. So, maybe Lando suggested the carbon freezing equipment wasn’t specced for humans, yet he knew full well it was. C-3PO said it was fine and that prissy droid was known for saying things out loud that his companions wished he’d keep to himself. They said specifically in Empire that the Cloud City equipment wasn’t built for humans, but perhaps there was carbon freezing equipment elsewhere in the galaxy that was specifically tuned toward putting living creatures in the deep freeze. In short, Boba Fett started a fad that persisted 6 years later. As Fett went, so did other bounty hunters, many of which may have done business in Jabba’s palace where they could see Han Solo’s carbonite captivity with their own eyes. When Fett experienced the usefulness of carbon freezing bounties, he made it common practice. Why was it commonplace 6 years later in The Mandalorian? Picked and packed and ready to ship. Fett says, “ What if he doesn’t survive? He’s worth a lot to me…“ĭisney+’s The Mandalorian happens 6 years after the events of The Empire Strikes Back, so what changed in carbon freezing in those 6 years? It was portrayed as risky in Empire. Nobody trusted carbon freezing living beings in Empire Strikes Back, evidenced by OG Mandalorian Boba Fett, who clearly expresses his concerns to Darth Vader. That’s a huge shift from The Empire Strikes Back where an ad hoc experiment in Cloud City freezes Han Solo in carbonite in order to test the process before Darth Vader attempted to freeze Luke Skywalker as well. In fact, we see a fast-talking Mythrol, that the Madalorian had just captured, get the flash freeze treatment on the spot. In the opening episode of The Mandalorian, we see inside the Razor Crest, Dyn Jarren aka the Mandalorian’s ship, and he’s carrying several bounties who are frozen in carbonite. Why is a living creature being frozen in carbonite in The Mandalorian so common when it seemed so risky in Empire Strikes Back? ![]()
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