10 Star Wars Movie "Mistakes" That Were Totally Intentional

A New Hope introduced one of the more famously quibbled about moments in the entire franchise when Han boasted that the Millennium Falcon was "the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs!"

Except, anyone who knows their parsecs knows that a parsec isn't a measurement of time but of distance, in turn ensuring that Han's claim is totally nonsensical.

While it's most often suggested that George Lucas simply screwed up, or rather lazily used an obscure measurement he (wrongly) figured nobody would take notice of, a draft of the original Star Wars script obliterates any doubt that the American Graffiti director knew precisely what he was doing.

Immediately after Han says his famous one-liner, the script follows up with, "Ben reacts to Solo's stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation."

And even in the final film itself, just look at Obi-Wan's face after Han brings up parsecs - he looks at him as if to say, "What the hell are you talking about?"