IIRC the canon explanation actually kinda makes sense; While the grab-and-eat reflex is subconscious for a sarlacc, this particular sarlacc was a strict vegetarian and was fighting the reflex to consume Lando (and others) whenever they were thrown in; with the ship it was not trying to restrain itself since it was acting primarily in self defense.
Yes, this comes from a short story set during the period when C3P0 is wandering the desert - he stops to talk to the Almighty Sarlacc and it explains its position:
«So you keep calling me the almighty Sarlacc, which feels a bit cheeky, to be honest. Absolutely nobody has ever bothered to ask my opinion about anything before, and you keep feeding people to me without my consent. How exactly am I all-powerful?» ―The sarlacc, to C-3PO
IIRC the canon explanation actually kinda makes sense; While the grab-and-eat reflex is subconscious for a sarlacc, this particular sarlacc was a strict vegetarian and was fighting the reflex to consume Lando (and others) whenever they were thrown in; with the ship it was not trying to restrain itself since it was acting primarily in self defense.
That’s the dumbest explanation possible and I can only hope that you’re making that up.
Alas no, this is real.
Vegetables in the desert?
As seen in the films it would still consume meat - it just did not do it by choice.
(don’t hurt me, I didn’t write it)
Still better than “somehow, Palpatine returned”.
AND THIS TIME, HE’S GOT A BRAND. NEW. PLAN.
Okay, so morally it wants to be a vegetarian, not it’s being force fed humanoid aliens?
Feels a little silly but I appreciate someone thought it through.
Yes, this comes from a short story set during the period when C3P0 is wandering the desert - he stops to talk to the Almighty Sarlacc and it explains its position:
Thanks, I hate it
And the other one subsisted on a diet of spaceships?
No, they’re the same sarlacc (the Almighty Sarlacc)
So Star Wars ships are made of vegetables?
Wouldn’t be the dumbest thing in the canon.
Meesa sad about dis.