He got better.

I tried calling his office to complain about water rights, and they wouldn't even put me on hold.

If that line turns up in this film, Kasdan will have some explaining to do.

This film—and I know that not everyone agrees—doesn't strike me as something that shouldn't work. I was into the idea of Lord and Miller as directors, but I don't think that Han Solo requires a magic trick to be successful.

The Vader scene is gratuitous fan service, but aside from that I'm not sure that Rogue One was ruined by being 'adjusted' in production. I enjoyed the film quite a bit as a finished product. Imperfect but not a wreck.

To be fair, Sean Patrick Flannery probably has more screen time as Indy than Harrison Ford, since that was a full-fledged series of episodes.

I haven't owned a console of any sort in many cycles, but this is tempting. Very tempting.

Well, when you put it like that…

Obviously improv has made Star Wars better in the past, but maybe it wasn't for the best here. I'm a big fan of directors being given creative freedom, but on the other hand I do want to hear Kasdan's dialogue, especially since he was adamant on writing this film.

I've said this before, but they've been publishing Han Solo-centered books since the early days of Star Wars. He's the guy who boasts about his past adventures, which are free to be explored without having to get into the deep stuff with the Jedi and so forth.

'Need' is a tricky word to drawn a line based on.

Well said. I can certainly imagine better films than many of the Star Wars installments, but for accessible ultra-mainstream space fantasy I think that they do well (and I mean that sincerely) to be what they are right now.

It certainly appears that the visual cues are continuing to be very familiar. Story-beat wise, aside from Jedi training, I'm not sure what's coming.

*cough* Second breakfast?

I've still never really delved into Harry Potter, although I imagine I'd enjoy it. I was a bit 'old' for the books at the time—I realize that such designations are kind of N/A in this case, but I only know that in hindsight—and more crucially grew up in the sort of religious environment that that frowned on this…

I guess that for me, Han is the one character whose backstory I do want to see. I used to read Han Solo novels as a kid and really enjoyed them as supplements to the central-plot Star Wars stuff.

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It pains me to say it, but yes.

Wasn't there also something about polio, or did I imagine that?

I suppose that maybe it's a combination of being simple, repetitive and clumsy. The originals are simple but really sharp on the whole. The prequels are clumsy but convoluted and they certainly drew criticism.