It's a matter of interpretation then, why would they even add this conversation if it weren't what they implied? And Lando starts to cry when it is killed etc.
It's not really up to interpretation, as it's very explicitly shown and discussed. L3 has that conversation with Qi'ra firstly because she's trying to "do the human thing" and gossip; it all got started with mention of Han's infatuation with Qi'ra and her clear mutual feelings. All of this goes on to establish depth to Lando's character, enhancing elements that were in the original trilogy and had no background: it establishes why Lando is more amicable toward droids in a galaxy that largely ignores them while relying on them; it shows why Lando is not happy to see Han at first, and still refers to the
Falcon as his ship; last and least it gives a background to C3-PO commenting that the
Falcon has a foul mouth.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that it doesn't play a role in the movie.
Yes, the words used have been "huge role". My issue is that you are making the relationship between L3 and Lando into a bigger deal than it was in the movie (even with it's far-reaching implications), and I am contrasting this with romances in the films - Original and Prequel Trilogies - in which romance
did play a very huge part, contrary to your claim because
you don't see
Star Wars as a romance. Illustrating that this stink is about "alternate relationships", not relationships in general.
if you were to briefly tell what Star wars the original movies were about,
You'd be oversimplifying them.
Star Wars as the Skywalker Saga is a Space Opera. It's going to have a
lot of elements, romance clearly included. As a Franchise (bigger than the Skywalker Saga and
certainly bigger than the Original Trilogy)
Star Wars is many genres and many mediums. There will be romance, war, aliens and droids, space wizards and soldiers. It is Comedy and Tragedy (of Darth Plagueis), serious and ridiculous.
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Oh boy.
Curiously Wakanda characters are all black. There is no discrimination issue there.
Imagine, all the people from a secretive, isolated, colonization resisting African nation are black.
I was bewildered in this horrible Amazon series on the Rings when an elf protagonist was cast as African American. That was ridiculous.
No, it really wasn't. In fact in
The Hobbit there is mention of Wood Elves, Sea Elves, Deep Elves, and the Light Elves that would become the Vanyar. Thranduil himself was portrayed as
green in the Rankin/Bass
The Hobbit rendition. The fact is there are
many kinds of Elves, and nothing that says they cannot be of a darker pigment.
In Tolkien lore elves awoke before the sun was made, and since the light of Elbereth resides in them ( the same light that made the sun) they do not need skin pigments as sun blockers.
That's not how things work in Middle Earth lol...
And you do not get middle aged elves as they, ahem, do not grow old.
They certainly do, they just age much slower. While they are under the dome of Valinor, they age at a rate of 1:144; One Valian Year to One-hundred and fourty-four Middle Earth Years. Upon Middle Earth, that hastens to 1:10.
For example Galadriel is shown young and Celebrimbor middle aged when the latter is her brothers grandson!!
And has been on Middle Earth longer than her. Galadriel is young in the show and in the timeline.
As told in
The History of Middle Earth, Volume X, Morgoth's Ring, Galadriel was born in the year 1362 of the Years of the Trees, during the First Age of Arda. At the close of the Years of the Trees, 1500 YT, Galadriel was only 138.
The First Age of Middle Earth begins in 1050 YT, when Galadriel was not yet born. It only lasted 590 years; by it's close Galadriel was 278.
She is referenced directly on page 148 of The Nature of Middle-Earth:
"Galadriel was born in Aman: "young and eager" at the beginning of the Exile; not yet full-grown: say 20. The March [back to Middle-earth] took a whole life-year of the survivors at whatever rate they were living, sc. to the young [but] "grown" it added 1 growth-year (3 löar
); to the older and full-grown 1 life-year (144 löar
). Therefore Galadriel was 21 when she reached Middle-earth. She became full-grown therefore (24) in 9 löar
after arrival. By the end of the First Age - the overthrow of Thangorodrim and the ruin of Beleriand - she had added 600-9LY/144 = approximately 4 LY. She was thus about 28 (or in mortal equivalent aged 21)."
Galadriel was not "mature" at the Exile, she was young. At her entry to Beleriand, she then began to live at a rate of 100:1 (page 77). Meaning that for every 100 Middle-earth years, they only age 1 year. In the Third Age, this moved up to 10:1.
The Second Age of Middle Earth begins, and Galadriel is 278-279. Using the dates as given in the Appendixes, and centering on the reconstruction of the Barad-dûr in the year 1000 of the Second Age, Galadriel was then 1,278.
Now, as noted in
The Nature of Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Elves reach "Full Growth" at 72 years old (comparable to 18), comparable to a 19 year old human at 216 years old, and endure 6,912 "Years of Youth" until they are considered in their full maturity at the age of 6,984.
When Sauron was defeated at the close of the Second Age, Galadriel was 3,719. When the Fellowship encountered her in Lothlórien in the year 3019 TA, Galadriel was 6,738 - almost at full maturity, yet still wise beyond the ages of men.
Returning to her age as seen in
The Rings of Power, Galadriel is far from mature. Given the rate of ageing (144
löar to 1 human year), at 1,278 she is comparable to a 26 year old human. Far from elderly and wise.
Why would dwarves have Irish accent by the way?
Why not?
Then she is poorly casted for that role in the first movie
