I love the fact that Solo starts with a Grand Theft Auto and Has was doing it for wooing his young lady friend. It's kind of interesting that later on, he does less of wooing and more of handling the business in his unique way, by causing chaos wherever he goes and whatever he does.
I'm sorry if I upset some but to me Solo has always been what I wanted Captain Kirk to in the Star Trek. In many ways he is, but unlike Kirk, he doesn't have the stop button and he doesn't always consider the consequences of his actions.
What doesn't make sense is that they showed Stormtroopers and not Clone Warriors during Solo's teenage years, even though the first trilogy (EP 1 - 3) showed the Millenium Falcon at Coruscant and when Luke meets Solo later on he's alerady at least 40 something. Am I wrong to think that Solo should have had the original Millennium Falcon during the Clone Wars and they should have showed that era if not the Old Republic instead of the Emperor's Imperium?
If you look the scene in the New Hope, where Han overhears Old Man Kenobi telling Luke that his father served during the Clone Wars, he looks as if somehow had met the man. I might be completely wrong but that is the impression I have after seeing Episode 4 multiple times.
It wasn't surprise to me that Solo got kicked out from the Imperial Academy, because his attitude would never fit at the Imperial Standard. Later on he learns to deal with the Imperial Navy quite well, but his mouth has always been Han's biggest problem. It is also his biggest delight as I for one love listening his quips.
It is interesting that they showed Imperial Army. who weren't wearing the Storm Trooper outfits. I don't think I have seen the Imperial Troopers before. Just pieces of their armour, worn by the Rebel faction soldiers. But, when you think about it, it makes sense as the Storm Troopers should be the elite fighters and the Imperial Troopers as the main grunts for the Emperor war operations.
They are the kind of people who would have confined a wookie into a mud pit at the warzone. I hated seeing Chewie covered in mud and God knows what else. Yet, from the first striking moment , they were friends. Speaking of which, I would have loved seeing Rio in the original movies as Chewies and Han's sidekick. But as he's another pilot, it's understandable that he wasn't seen in those movies.
If he hadn't got shot by the space pirates, he could have made it back to steal the Falcon from Lando. After he cheated in the card game, it kind of made sense that Solo and Chewie were going to nick it at earliest opportunity. Only I thought they were going to get it from Corellian Shipyards.
I loved seeing more of Falcon's interior, including the cloak room attached the captain's quarters. But I think Solo starts to fail first time at the Kessel mine, where they made the run to overly comedic but not laugh out loud funny. Instead the narrative goes from joke to another without making anything serious in between.
I didn't shed a tear when L3 died, but I was delighted that they used the death as an opportunity for Han to do his first modification the Millennium Falcon. The second made the ship look proper. Although it was in a sad state, when they landed it back on the refinery.
I was surprised that the villain turned out be Maul. Also the ending made clear that Solo always shoots first.
It doesn't make sense that Solo flopped in the box office so much as it's a good, classical adventure.
