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Things that are acceptable here:
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Rise of Skywalker Final Trailer:
Mr. Sunday's Ten Easy To Miss Details in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Final Trailer Breakdown):
This cool mashup of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Avengers: Endgame trailers:
And also here's a trailer for The Mandalorian:
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 31st 2024 at 8:23:29 PM
I think there is a fine line between Alternative character interpretation and Ron the Death Eater.
Still, Kylo had some characterization issues in the trilogy, including "having the greatest power" Luke has ever felt, which he never bothered to show.
Edited by DarthNoxIsCool on Jul 6th 2022 at 4:54:10 AM
In this respect, I think a better statement is that someone can be mentally sound, given a good environment, and still become a reprehensible piece of shit.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.So, with Han, it's a bit rough, because we've literally watched him develop out of that character into someone else. To have him backslide entirely offscreen is just...sad. It's not impossible or anything, people do backslide for all sorts of reasons, but it's a truly wild storytelling decision to undo a story arc and then kill the character off. About as wild as TLJ's decision to rerun Luke's character arc of learning how to be a Jedi and then kill him off.
Sure. But don't have him be bumming around the galaxy doing nothing. Have him actually be using the contacts he made through a quite successful back-half of his life as a general and Leia's husband to try to find their son. Leia is focused on the bigger picture of the First Order, Han is trying to rescue Ben from Snoke. ETA: The bit at the end, where he tries to convince Ben to come back and fails and is killed, is honestly the best part of the ST, I'm super fine with that part. It's everything around it that annoys the crap out of me.
Edited by ECD on Jul 6th 2022 at 5:55:03 AM
Way back I read an interview with one of the writers of TFA, and they said the reason why they didn’t want to use the more mature and politically connected Han of Legends was because they felt him being half of a “Washington power couple” meant he couldn’t go on space adventures like before. So it feels like a waste to regress him but then kill him so he’s not going on any more flights anyway.
I’m more invested in TLJ’s Luke direction because while he is fallen it’s a new and fascinating direction to the character for me. I’m less interested in more of the same as with Han.
For me what didn't make sense is that smuggling is by definition an illegal, under the table endeavor that requires a certain degree of anonymity. Underground circles might spread around some notoriety, but a consistent reputation is needed. If Han becomes a war hero and minor figurehead in the New Republic there is no chance he would be trusted for any smuggling job. I liked the idea Han is hiding his pain with his work, but let's not pretend it wasn't done to ensure fans are excited to see the old criminal Han and freedom fighter Leia.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
It's definitely clear that the ST's goal was to 'recapture' the magic, but trying to do that by literally repeating character beats is just...bad.
More generally, you only need him as a smuggler if you're sticking with, he meets Finn/Rey basically by accident. Whereas, if he's searching for Ben, well Ben is looking for Finn/Rey. Lots of ways for him to find that out.
The intentions bleed into the execution, basically.
Han being broken by grief and going into a self destructive spiral is a great idea for a character arc, but it's not really there to be a character move. Han doesn't - like - go through experiences that cause him to find his center again, or anything. He just kind of goes along with the story, sometimes being more virtuous, sometimes more roguish, until he dies. It's there to push Han into being the same character he was in the OT again. And it shows.
Likewise, all the steps they went to turn Luke into the next OT Obi-Wan, and all the steps they made to keep Leia from being too different from OT Leia (it's generally overshadowed by all the other crap in that film, but I'm still pissed at how hard TROS shut down the idea of her being a Jedi).
A lot of these ideas are good, but go largely unexplored because the point isn't to bring those ideas into the story, it's to use these ideas to make the universe smaller and more reminiscent of what we've already seen.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 6th 2022 at 7:04:29 AM
Y’know, I think I’m still getting over my expectation that a Han Solo at this age, if he has to still be smuggling, ought to be an Old Master at it. So for him to struggle and fail seems subversive. This entire page of replies has been insightful for me.
My take is that Han Solo was actually a shitty smuggler and failing miserably at the job he used to excel at. Part of what I was getting from it is that Han Solo is now too nice of a person to be a smuggler.
After all, he believes in the Force and jumps at a chance to help the others.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I switch between "He's gotten too nice" and "He was deliberately conning his employers".
Leviticus 19:34It’d be interesting if the stuff he was smuggling was stuff that ordinary people sorely needed, but couldn’t obtain legally for whatever reason.
Oh God! Natural light!

I dunno, misfit smuggler barely getting by and being hounded by the bigger fish seems to be a common character type regardless of their state of mourning.