A new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ show The Mandalorian, which debuts on Nov. 12, features additional footage and an extended monologue delivered by none other than Werner Herzog. “Bounty hunting is a complicated profession,” he observes to Pedro Pascal’s behelmeted protagonist. “They said you were coming. They said you were the best in the parsec.”
Wait, they did? That’s kind of a weird thing for them to say. In the original movie, Han Solo claims that his ship “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs,” strongly implying that a parsec is a unit of time. Solo then went to great lengths to clarify that Han took a shortcut through an established route, confirming that a parsec is in fact a unit of distance, but it’s still jarring to hear someone refer to a region of space as the parsec. Why not “the best in the system” or “the best in the Outer Rim”?
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Maybe the boast about Pascal’s character’s prowess was garbled in the translation from Huttese. Maybe there’s literally a better bounty hunter living exactly one parsec away and Herzog is a stickler for accuracy. Maybe we should just be grateful that we live in a time where we get to hear Werner Herzog say “parsec” at all. Your move, other streaming services.
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