QC, solo is a decent film and at least stands on its own two legs. Well worth a watch.
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And I’ll use that jumping off point to pull out my drum and beat it again (you heard me) and declare that the Star Wars Cinematic Universe is not, in fact, a “cinematic universe” because it so far consists only of a main series of films and direct spin-offs. Unlike Marvel and, well, The Conjuring, no film is just set in the same universe. Even those ewok movies are direct spin-offs.
This is the hill I will die on.
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I saw a pic from The Mandalorian floating around twitter with a bunch of prisoners frozen in carbonite in the exact same structure Han was in back in Empire. I have two problems with this:
1) I feel like the weakest parts of modern Star Wars are when they just to callbacks to things we saw in the first movies.
2) This is a bad callback - freezing people was clearly not something carbonite was used for. It just happened to be on Bespin because of whatever mining stuff they had and it also risked killing the prisoner.
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Originally posted by Dogg Thang View PostI saw a pic from The Mandalorian floating around twitter with a bunch of prisoners frozen in carbonite in the exact same structure Han was in back in Empire. I have two problems with this:
1) I feel like the weakest parts of modern Star Wars are when they just to callbacks to things we saw in the first movies.
2) This is a bad callback - freezing people was clearly not something carbonite was used for. It just happened to be on Bespin because of whatever mining stuff they had and it also risked killing the prisoner.
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Really? I didn't think that in Empire. I always assumed it was a known quantity.
Lando recommends not putting Han in carbonite, but I always felt it was because that's an industrial facility.
Then Threepio sees him, he seems to know what has happened; he's says "Oooh, he's been frozen in carbonite.", as if that process is a known quantity.
Even the fact that Vader tries it at all suggests it isn't the first time this has been done.
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Han seemed to be frozen as a test to see if it was even viable to freeze Luke. Boba Fett didn’t want it, “He’s no good to me dead”, and you need to remember the rest of 3PO’s line - “if he survives”. It’s hardly practical even in a better scenario but they were clearly dealing with equipment not designed to freeze a person. And the image from The Madalorian has the exact same structure, as if they all went back to Bespin to freeze people.
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Turns out the last minute of “Revenge of the Sith” may be fully coming back into play with the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series for Disney+. As we know, the new series will be set eight years after that film’s ending which saw Obi-Wan delivering the infant Luke Skywalker to his new home with Anakin […]
Joel Edgerton, who played Uncle Owen in Episodes II & III, will return in the role for the Obi-Wan series that is set 8 years after the end of Revenge of the Sith.
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