Always Tell Me The Odds
“What are you doing? You’re not actually going into an asteroid field?!?”
Princess Leia looked over at Han Solo in disbelief.
Han shot back, “They’d be crazy to follow us, wouldn’t they?”
“You don’t have to do this to impress me.”
C3PO’s jarring voice jumped in at this point, rudely reminding everyone of the grim reality they were facing:
“Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one”.
Han replies, “Always tell me the odds”.
In this galaxy that’s not so far away, our version of Han Solo knows that understanding probabilities is the key to navigating life's unpredictable asteroid fields.
We Are Oddsmakers
The Han Solo of the original Empire Strikes Back positively exudes being human.
This is his character’s defining trait: Han doesn’t trust droids, he doesn’t want to know odds or calculate probabilities, and he often makes split-second decisions that seem emotional in nature.
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