He says "If you watched the movie you'd find this obvious"

However, it seems most Star Wars fans disagree. I mean, this had to be explained in a follow-up movie, wasn't it?

Sounds like someone who can’t admit a mistake and found a “clever” way to make themselves look correct.

If only there were "a lot of stuff in the way" in space, this would make sense.

It's explained in Solo, and honestly I always thought that was the explanation too. He found a shorter route, it was always that simple.

It really is.

Was this an actual issue outside of the Family Guy joke? I always understood Lucas’ intent.

It wasn't an issue so much, but just something you'd hear every once in a while from Star Wars fans. "He says parsecs, but parsecs is a measure of distance and not speed. They messed up that in the script - here's an explanation that actually makes sense, it's my head canon"

Then when Solo came out all those talking points got thrown out, since that "head canon" became actual canon

That's how I remember all of this going down at least.

He could just admit he fucked up.

Or you could admit that y'all are creating a problem out of nothing