{"id":226138,"date":"2026-01-07T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:28:08","slug":"star-wars-officially-retcons-the-force-awakens-it-doesnt-make-any-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226138\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Officially Retcons The Force Awakens & It Doesn’t Make Any Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars has officially retconned The Force Awakens<\/a>, in the strangest possible way. We\u2019ve just celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, which introduced viewers to a very different \u2013 yet nostalgically familiar \u2013 galaxy far, far away. It didn\u2019t take long for Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey and John Boyega\u2019s Finn to stumble on the Millennium Falcon<\/a>, apparently lost long ago by Harrison Ford\u2019s Han Solo. But all that was set up for Han\u2019s return, as he celebrated his homecoming with his loyal friend Chewbacca.<\/p>\n

But how did Han lose the Falcon in the first place? The Force Awakens never answered that question, but it did confirm Han had been scouring the galaxy for his trusty spaceship. Han was understandably frustrated when Rey told him it had been on Jakku, complaining to Chewbacca that they \u201cshould\u2019ve double-checked the Western Reaches,\u201d and guessed a thief named Ducain had the Falcon. \u201cI stole it from Unkar Plutt<\/a>,\u201d Rey explained, demonstrating an odd knowledge of the Falcon\u2019s history. \u201cHe stole it from the Irving Boys, who stole it from Ducain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodney Barnes, Guru-eFX and Ramon Rosanas\u2019 Han Solo \u2013 Hunt for the Falcon miniseries has told a story set before The Force Awakens, one in which Han and Chewbacca reunited to search for the Millennium Falcon. Although the story captured Han\u2019s character quite well, it\u2019s increasingly become clear this is one of the strangest retcons in Star Wars history, because now that it\u2019s wrapped it just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n

The Hunt for the Falcon Directly Contradicts The Force Awakens<\/p>\n

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The core problem is that the story just doesn\u2019t quite fit. In Hunt for the Falcon, Han successfully tracks his starship across the galaxy. He runs through all those familiar names; Ducain, the Irving Boys, and he even gets to Unkar Plutt himself. Even more staggering, the final confrontation between Han and Unkar Plutt takes place on Jakku itself, with Han realizing he\u2019ll be killed if he pushes things any further and choosing to leave the Falcon behind \u2013 for now. It all directly contradicts the entire conversation between Han and Rey in The Force Awakens.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to figure out how to read Hunt for the Falcon. It\u2019s an enjoyable story, but there\u2019s no way it can coexist well with the very movie it\u2019s supposed to be setting up. The only possible way of reconciling these two tales is to suggest Han and Chewbacca were play-acting through their entire conversation with Rey, perhaps testing her to see if her story adds up and to decide whether or not they can trust her. But there\u2019s absolutely nothing in The Force Awakens, nor any other novelization or adaptation, to suggest that interpretation. It\u2019s such a strange decision.<\/p>\n

Matters are actually compounded in Hunt for the Falcon #5, courtesy of a dream that feels as though it\u2019s actually a memory (earlier issues featured emotional flashbacks in the same artistic style). In this scene, Han unwisely flies the Falcon through Imperial Space, risking his family who are on board. Ben is old enough to speak. The problem is that the Empire fell at the Battle of Jakku<\/a> around the time of Ben\u2019s birth; even factoring in the Imperial Remnant forces that operated for some years (as seen in The Mandalorian), there was no official Imperial space by the time Ben was old enough to talk.<\/p>\n

Marvel\u2019s Star Wars Comics Need to Take Continuity a Little More Seriously<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t the first time Marvel\u2019s official Star Wars comics have stumbled in terms of continuity. Last year\u2019s The Battle of Jakku event was designed to tie in with other stories that had already told different perspectives on the Empire\u2019s downfall, notably Chuck Wendig\u2019s \u201cAftermath\u201d trilogy<\/a>. That, too, stumbled, because it didn\u2019t fit at all with the established continuity. It even missed out on an epic scene featuring Luke Skywalker that had been teased in Ken Liu\u2019s The Legends of Luke Skywalker, much to the disappointment of readers.<\/p>\n

Hunt for the Falcon is, of course, much more frustrating. It\u2019s one thing for a Star Wars story to conflict with a series of tie-in novels that were published a decade ago; it\u2019s quite another to explicitly contradict the very movie the comic is supposed to be setting up. Hunt for the Falcon is an enjoyable story, it has good characterization, but it just doesn\u2019t work. And that\u2019s a real shame.<\/p>\n

Hunt for the Falcon #5 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.<\/p>\n

Which upcoming Star Wars movie or TV show are you most excited about? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars has officially retconned The Force Awakens, in the strangest possible way. We\u2019ve just celebrated the ten-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397,53235,74727,73681],"class_list":{"0":"post-226138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-regular-feature","13":"tag-star-wars-generic","14":"tag-star-wars-the-force-awakens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}