Author Topic: Solo: A Star Wars Story Official Thread **SPOILERS**  (Read 663 times)

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We only get a brief glimpse of Corellia's cityscape outside the slums and construction/starport area. Corellia is basically Gotham City, a blue collar core world, which I'm fine with. (At some point there's been some "middle class flight" from Corellia to nearby "suburb" planets like Nubia.)

Kessel being the only source of unrefined hyperfuel makes no sense given how common and relatively cheap space travel is in Star Wars, so I just ignore that. :)
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Kessel being the only source of unrefined hyperfuel makes no sense given how common and relatively cheap space travel is in Star Wars, so I just ignore that. :)

That McGuffin was one of the things that bothered me as well.  To me having it be something like hibridium or stygium (stuff needed for Cloaking Devices) would have made more sense instead of having it be something literally every starship needs to have to use.  Now having something every starship needs certainly would make it valuable but considering the proliferation of hyperdrives I really can't believe it should be all that rare otherwise how did it ever get discovered in the first place?  On our world I guess the comparison could be Oil but they've found that in a LOT of places even if it isn't all exactly the same raw product.

With the prices they seem to be throwing around for what seems like such small amounts I wonder just how dense an energy source that would be to make them economical.  Also wonder how long it lasts.
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It seems to me there was quite a bit of name dropping in there.  I can recall hearing Bossk and Aura Sing mentioned.  I'm probably just blanking on a bunch of other names I probably should know.

The funny thing is they name dropped a few bounty hunters but only referred to Jabba as a new high time gangster on Tatooine. Only reason I could see was they wanted to keep the timeline murky.

@FTJ: Play SWTOR if you want to see a bit more of how Corellia can be. Not quite movie realist CGI, but you get the same feel it gave in the movie.


Saw it opening night. I enjoyed it. Donald Glover was brilliant as Lando. The acting all around was good. Felt like Ron Howard made a mark when they upgraded into him as the director. The whole Kessel run seems a bit too fast paced. Emilia Clarke's Kira character path was the only real shocker to me, but I saw seeds of her actions at the end throughout the movie. She has serious training in Teras Kasi, wonder if she might be FS......

The Maul thing was the only thing I honestly hated, but this is the new Disney canon, they can retcon whatever they please (unless the movie's timeline is before Rebels, where they did kill the bastard off finally we thought)
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Overall, I enjoyed it.  I think I still liked Rogue One better, but Solo will find a home in my collection.

Seems like everyone beat me to the punch on what my thoughts were (i can overlook the hyperfuel on Kessel, didn't like Darth Maul's cameo, cool Teras Kasi moves, etc).  At least I'm in good company if we're all having fairly similar thoughts :)
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Is it my imagination or is this the first Star Wars movie without a real "lightsaber" event in it?  Rogue One had the Vader scene but I certainly don't consider those blades Vos wielded as lightsabers.
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Rogue One had a lightsaber but no duel, Solo had a duel but no lightsaber.

The dueling weapons in Solo definitely ignored DR of average objects but not the DR of similar weapons. So there's that.
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