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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 6790250" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>I still haven't seen the film (and will probably be among the last 5 or 10 people on Earth to do so - because I'm too cheap to buy non-matinee movie tickets), but ...</p><p></p><p>The biggest problem I see is the Death Star Clone tacked onto what otherwise is an interesting plot premise: Where did Luke disappear to? There is a Sith Lord a-budding and we need him! The multi-party hunt / race provides plenty of material all by itself.</p><p></p><p>If the new BBEG has been around since Palpatine became Emperor, he should know that big flashy superweapons are big prestige targets for your opponents / enemies to embarrass you, not "This battle station is the ultimate power in the galaxy". This movie might have been better served with a nod to Ep3's scene showing the construction parameters for the Death Star, implying what is to come unless Our Heroes can figure it all out and put a stop to it.</p><p></p><p>Han Solo was going to have to have SOMETHING dramatic happen to him; his IRL-self has developed a bad habit of crashing airplanes, instead of flying through dangers without a scratch. Have him a concerned parent trying to steer / pull his child away from the abyss ... yeah, that does work, especially if you read the novelization of Return of the Jedi: Han reflects on his relationship with his immediate friends, "apart, yet a part". He's been an absent dad for a long time, but just maybe he IS the one person who can turn his son around. (Besides, the family reconciliation thing worked for Luke ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</p><p>And this is still better than the death the novels gave to Chewie: he became a statistic, trapped underneath a Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 6790250, member: 6803337"] I still haven't seen the film (and will probably be among the last 5 or 10 people on Earth to do so - because I'm too cheap to buy non-matinee movie tickets), but ... The biggest problem I see is the Death Star Clone tacked onto what otherwise is an interesting plot premise: Where did Luke disappear to? There is a Sith Lord a-budding and we need him! The multi-party hunt / race provides plenty of material all by itself. If the new BBEG has been around since Palpatine became Emperor, he should know that big flashy superweapons are big prestige targets for your opponents / enemies to embarrass you, not "This battle station is the ultimate power in the galaxy". This movie might have been better served with a nod to Ep3's scene showing the construction parameters for the Death Star, implying what is to come unless Our Heroes can figure it all out and put a stop to it. Han Solo was going to have to have SOMETHING dramatic happen to him; his IRL-self has developed a bad habit of crashing airplanes, instead of flying through dangers without a scratch. Have him a concerned parent trying to steer / pull his child away from the abyss ... yeah, that does work, especially if you read the novelization of Return of the Jedi: Han reflects on his relationship with his immediate friends, "apart, yet a part". He's been an absent dad for a long time, but just maybe he IS the one person who can turn his son around. (Besides, the family reconciliation thing worked for Luke ... ;) ) And this is still better than the death the novels gave to Chewie: he became a statistic, trapped underneath a Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid. [/QUOTE]
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