Solo is a fun and entertaining film. It doesn't need to be more or less because "Star Wars."
Spoilers Star Wars: Solo - Grading and Discussion Thread
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Agreed 100%.
Han Solo is pretty much my only interest in the franchise.
It is a shame we'll probably never see a sequel to it.
I could see some of the movie's dangling plot threads being picked up by a Disney+ show.
I'm thinking it will be more likely in the novels and comics.
If it gets a popular Disney+ sequel, regardless of whether it's a Lando series, Qira series, Maul series or whatever, that'll boost people's attitude towards the movie right there. Unlike many of the recent Star Wars movies, this one actually left me interested in what happens to some of the characters next.
Now I'd gladly watch a Rose Tico series too, but Episode 9 left me with absolutely no questions or interest about what she does next. And that Cassian Andor/K-2SO series could be great, but we've already seen the end of their stories.
We already knew the end of Obi-Wan and Anakin's too.
I'm not sure that really helped the prequels to be perfectly honest.
And indeed that of Han.
Cross-posting a tangentially connected tidbit...
Dryden Vos made a blink and you miss it cameo in the latest episode of the Clone Wars.
https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020...aPXC-z77QFCHeYpvPLhBhAy9Cq7xEI9PlD3Gi9RccWUx8
https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020...aPXC-z77QFCHeYpvPLhBhAy9Cq7xEI9PlD3Gi9RccWUx8
Saw that when I watched yesterday........they seem to be doing a great job of weaving things together fairly seamlessly.
I didn’t mind it.
The only issue I had was an underlying continuity one, being that Han kind of addressed that he was simply some nihilistic self serving individual in this movie so that kind of puts him in an endless loop. He finds his social compassion here and loses it for episode 4. Then he finds it again and loses it for episode 7.
Other than that I liked it. Nothing too special but a nice bit of escapism that more or less fits the narrative. I thought the actor did a good job and reminded me of the subtleties that EM brought to portraying Obi Wan. Seeing the origin of Chewbacca and Han was a nice insert too.
The only issue I had was an underlying continuity one, being that Han kind of addressed that he was simply some nihilistic self serving individual in this movie so that kind of puts him in an endless loop. He finds his social compassion here and loses it for episode 4. Then he finds it again and loses it for episode 7.
Other than that I liked it. Nothing too special but a nice bit of escapism that more or less fits the narrative. I thought the actor did a good job and reminded me of the subtleties that EM brought to portraying Obi Wan. Seeing the origin of Chewbacca and Han was a nice insert too.
^ I think you missed the nuance behind Han's attitude in both ANH and TFA.
In the 10 years between the events of SOLO and ANH, he's let cynicism become his "guiding star" because of Qira and Beckett betraying him, and in TFA , he's put on a facade of cynicism and being free as an attempt to run away from his pain.
In the 10 years between the events of SOLO and ANH, he's let cynicism become his "guiding star" because of Qira and Beckett betraying him, and in TFA , he's put on a facade of cynicism and being free as an attempt to run away from his pain.
While I don’t agree that I’m unaware of the respective framing of both movies the plot device attempts to run his character ascent in the same manner and to do that a reset of sorts is necessary. It illustrates that any change is not persistent and therefore devalues the character shift. The aspects you raise are trivial and don’t debase core elements of character, in my view anyway.
