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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 16 Jan 2019

      watching SOLO and i am already mad as hell at the apparent “origin” of Han Solo’s name

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    2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 17 Jan 2019

      so i am halfway through this movie—had to pause to help the baby get to sleep!—and i think its big weakness is the apparent mandate to explain everything.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2019
      Replying to @jbouie

      This is the problem with most prequels. It's based on thinking that audience wants to see how a character (Vader, Han) got to be who they were, rather than enjoying them for who they are.

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        1. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 17 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Also, that anyone thought those particular characters were interesting on their own in the first place. Han Solo is only interesting because he's the devil-may-care swashbuckler next to the earnest Luke Skywalker and the caring-yet-savvy Princess Leia.

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        1. Sir Thopas‏ @Sir_Thopas 17 Jan 2019
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          Star Wars has less excuse for not having learned this lesson than most. Its entire community spent a decade writing post-mortems on a set of prequels.

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        1. 255‏ @two5five 17 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          the flip side is that if we meet the character at the beginning of their journey to become who they are (The Matrix), we're way *less* interested in later films (sequels)

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        1. Uatu the Watcher‏ @UatuAndStan 17 Jan 2019
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          The worst part of Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was finding out exactly what Red did. Didn't need to know. Better not knowing. The Star Wars prequels get more malice than deserved but reality is Vader is more interesting with no origin. You're right.

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        2. bob‏ @huntthesnark 17 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Not sure I agree. I very much wanted to see how Vader became who he was. A convincing, sympathetic view of that change would have been amazing. Instead we got cliche dressed up with some of the worst dialog written for any movie ever.

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        3. Monarch of Melanin  👑‏ @Black_2_theBone 17 Jan 2019
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          i think this is my take as well.

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        1. Deep Space Lobster  🇮🇱 🟣 🇵🇸‏ @EytanSR 17 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Anakin becoming Vader is actual character development though. Han in IV is exactly the same as he in Solo.

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        1. Louis Anthony Loftus‏ @louisafloftus 17 Jan 2019
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          Patton Oswalt beat you to this one.

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        1. marc murdock‏ @marcmurd 17 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Great point. That’s why I have zero enthusiasm about the upcoming prequel to The Sopranos — James Gandolfini is the one and ONLY Tony Soprano.

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        1. Michael Waddell‏ @Quadell 17 Jan 2019
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          This is why I loved the way Glover played Lando. Everything about the way he played it was already Lando, deliciously Lando, not "Here's how he became Lando".

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