The Courtship of Princess Leia: Difference between revisions

 

 

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* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]] - Han wins the Planet-Of-The-Novel in a Sabacc game.

* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]] - Teneniel wanting Luke, who just happens to be [[World's Strongest Man|the most powerful Jedi ever]]

* [[Combined Energy Attack]] - Inverted. The [[Combined Energy Attack]] ''heals'' Luke, rather than destroys him.

* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] - a "lost tribe" of Jedi in a book by a Mormon.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Isolder IS Space Fabio!

** It also, perhaps accidentally, leaves room for Zsinj to have survived. {{spoiler|In Courtship, Zsinj is on his bridge talking with Solo over the comm when Solo launches torpedos into the Iron Fist's bridge windows. In the [[X Wing Series]], we find out that Zsinj liked to hang out in a complete duplicate of his main bridge with all control screens being echoed there so that he could watch over his subordinates shoulders without their knowledge. He also uses it as a stage for acting out his decadent leader persona for visitors without impairing the proper crew from running the ship. If Zsinj was in this bridge, he wasn't where the torpedoes hit and may have escaped. No such luck for Melvar though, who we see die on the planet surface.}}

* [[Foregone Conclusion]] - Han marries Leia in the end.

* [[Harmless Villain]] - Played ''ridiculously'' straight with Zsinj

** [[X Wing Series|That's what he]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|wants you to think]]...

* [[Lost Tribe]] - the Dathomiri

* [[Meaningful Name]] - Luke levitates both himself and the ship to a graceful landing, suggesting where the name "Skywalker" comes from.

'''Luke''': "This droid, these beasts, all have a similar measure of the Force within them. If I sense the Force, how can I not respect them, just as I respect Ta’a Chume?" }}

* [[Romance Novel]] - the Han/Leia plot

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] - Han wins a Planet in a pot of cards worth 1.6 Billion Credits. Luke's speeder got 2,000 credits at a used car lot (for a maximum of 1 credit to $10 US equivalent). An inhabitable planet is worth $16 billion? Even for one under imperial interdiction, that means Bill Gates could purchase 3 planets! The estimated price of Earth is 10 QUADRILLION. This is also ignoring the fact that Han started the novel with an amount of money that is unspecified, but certainly no more than the cost of his Millenium Falcon, so assuming he leveraged that at a starting bid, he went from owning 100k-1M credits to nearly 2B credits. What luck to increase your net worth by 3-10 orders of magnitude in one night.

** Possible subversion if it was done on purpose, for several reasons: 1) the Sabacc player is a strapped-for-cash noble-ish owner, 2) said owner most likely knows that the planet is not only in a sector under Zsinj's control but also inhabited by pesky (and more-powerful-than-they-look) natives, hence driving down the value of the planet - after all, what good is owning a planet if you can't come in and collect taxes or colonize it?, 3) this takes place in a "galaxy far, far away" wherein inhabitable planets aren't exactly scarce, and 4) this particular game of Sabacc is quite clearly pegged as being the equivalent of getting a Royal Flush at the high-rollers table of the MGM Grand. So all in all, it could go against the trope and be more realistic. Granted, Dathomir is described as particularly inhabitable, but it is also remote (location, location, location) and mostly unknown.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - The titular "courtship" refers to Han Solo shooting Leia with a brainwashing gun and kidnapping her. He's called on it at first, but the whole thing is all but forgotten by the end of the book, probably because it's so very creepy.

* [[Wicked Stepmother]] - Ta'a Chume

 

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