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Shouldn't this film be called "Qi'ra: A Star Wars Story" ?


Considering that this film was more about her mysterious character, how she went from zero in the slums (with nice clothes?) to 'top lieutenant', master of combat and head of crime planning and logistics PLUS a sith in waiting in the same amount of time it took Han to get kicked out of flight academy and sentenced to death for treason - whilst achieving LESS than 0% progress towards his goal of saving her (only to find out she had already saved herself).

Then the film ends with the teaser for part 2 - "Han is 100% what he is because of her: A Star Wars Story", as she leaves him for greener pastures - after saving his skin of course.

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I think there is an even better title:

Luck medalion: A Star Wars Story

Notice how the only time people achieve their goals is when the got those metal dices on them? Han had it first, got the car and fuel for escape. Gave it away at the checkpoint, turned into complete failure. Meanwhile the dice has brought massive luck to Qi'ra. When she gave it back to Han, Han suddenly started winning again and Qi'ra ended up a sith slave. The dice medalion is the true hero of this story.

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Dice Medalion is actually high-quality midichlorian concentrate.

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I felt the movie kind of ended as a intro to her story, as if they had planned to make a sequel featuring her story, together with Darth Maul, who apparently is still alive(?) This is in stark contrast to Rogue One, which was a completely self contained story with no open ends. Generally the Solo movie kind of fizzled out at the end, to me that was not a satisfying ending. The whole thing was setting up her story - the ending was pointless unless they had plans to continue her story.

I thought it was entertaining and not too bad, until the last quarter of the movie, which was underwhelming. Qi'ra took over from Dryden Vos, she basically became him - yeah she's now a villain. "Don't trust anyone" and "you don't know her", riiight so she saved the rebellion yet she was the servant of a supposedly dead sith lord? It would have made much more sense if she had died.
I mean, there are books and animated crap which probably explain all this, but ten wild horses could not drag me to watch or read any of that nonsense.

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The Qi'ra story would have been a bit more interesting than the Solo story we were shown! Because this chick apparently clawed her way up from slum hooker to sith-influenced first lieutenant of a major criminal organization in a few years, while all Han did was join the army.

But no, it's not "The Qi'ra STory", because the filmmakers weren't at all interested in her and how she accomplished what she did, she was just presented as something that had an effect on Han. No, the real focus of the movie was the fan-service moments with Han, Chewie, and Lando.

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She managed to escape and became 'top lieutenant'.

Han managed to get kicked out of flight school and then sentenced to death ...

She must have escaped pretty easily too once Han left - when together they tried for ages and never got anywhere.

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And that's just one reason this film didn't really work.

They actually gave Qi'ra a much more interesting story than Han, but because they assumed audiences were only interested in this fake Han, the most potentially interesting character in the movie was almost completely ignored.

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