... You'd have to be blind, or in serious denial to not see it.
Most people made the link themselves, I did while watching it on opening night midnight show, by the time I got to the net other people were making the same comparison.
Exactly. When I saw it in theaters, the buddy I was with had to run out to the restroom during that scene. He came back in, sat down, and I leaned over and brought him up to speed by saying "they blew up the bridge, Leia was out in space, until she used the force to fly back inside the ship like mary poppins."
it's a thing a TON of people caught on their own. it's partly from her big dress, the surreal way she moved, and probably even that they'd had a mary poppins reference in GOTG2. It's there. If a person didn't see it, fine. But ya'll don't rag on the thousands of us that saw it that way in the theater
I'm always stunned by how so many people forget that that Star Wars literally cherry picks from whatever genera it wants for any scene. It'a about being fun, and I swear to god that modern star wars fans must be the biggest bunch of fun hating buzz kills I've ever seen.
You want to know why the "science" doesn't hold firm to reality? cause it freaking looks cool, or it's better for getting across the point of what's going on. why didn't the empire jump ahead of the rebel fleet that was low on fuel? because half the crud about how ships move in star wars is based on WWII aircraft and naval ships, and in WWII naval fleet warfare, they didn't have hyper drives. why did the ships "list and fall" when they ran out of fuel? because it's what viewers want to see. they want to see the thing go "womp womp womp womp *fuel depleted*" and spin off, because it adds a sense of something
happening to the scene.
Need someone to call upon their inherent space wizard powers to survive? that's what they do. And for crying out loud, I like how every star wars nerd was OK with the idea in the EU of luke having done some training with liea to get her rudimentary force use over the
40 years after ROTJ, but they can't imagine that at least some of that took place off screen in the GIANT gap between episode 6 and 7? lordy. gotta hold ya'lls hands for everything.
So wrapped up in needing a movie to be some transcendent experience, that ya'll claim a
darn good movie is garbage, cause it doesn't make you feel exactly like you did when you were 4 years old, and watched your first "cowboy-space-wizard-samurai-WWII-heroes-journey" movie. guess what, they're
never gonna fill that void you've insisted on creating in your souls.
that said, Solo was freaking great. I was happy with how they managed to touch on so many of the elements that we "know" about from Han's youth, without trying to make the movie a montage of everything from the EU. I liked how when he enlisted, he really DID go to flight school, but washed out after an uncertain amount of time (less than 3 years at least), and ended up getting used as cannon fodder; but didn't deprive the new audience of at least referencing that info.
Sabac just felt right to me, despite the EU having described it VERY differently. I like the nods to having "full sabac" or "minus 2", which are things us old EU nerds recognize as part of the game from the books, but without bogging things down in explaining "this is the stasis field, the cards are science space cards that change value, and the point is to win some all or nothing black jack/poker hybrid". wasn't needed, wasn't added.
Teras Kassi getting mentioned and USED by the two different characters was a lot of fun, and the way they used the cape, the restricted view through the door's window, and L3's reaction of "WOA!" to get across that something
spectacular had just happened without having to show everything in detail, is an essence of story telling that I think a lot of folks don't choose to use in their work these days. it allows exactly what happened to play out in the individual mind of each viewer, thus creating the most appropriate and entertaining experience. And then the very intense, but ultimately short and brutal fight using it at the end seemed very appropriate. the point wasn't to show off teras kassi, the point was to have the girl betray her master, but ultimately still "fall to the dark side" (while Han is off betraying his "master" and falling into the light, whether he realizes it or not).
Lord *****, there were times that Glover was channeling old school lando so hard it was eerie, and an absolute hoot. I have no cognitive dissonance between Glover's portrayal and Billy D's, they are one and the same in my mind.
and I know a ton of folks rag on the guy who played Han, but I felt the whole time that his portrayal was on point. he either seemed like a young person that would become the Han we know and love, and eventually was acting like the man himself. There were even a number of times he moved a certain way, or gestured, and my brain would flip upside down and scream "LORD GOLLY IT'S HAN!".
I loved how they integrated the droid bit into the ship, which created the famous "freaky circle color wheel thingy" that's on the back wall of the cockpit. And I experienced a warm creamy feeling inside when the falcon finally busts out of the Maw, and you're able to see her transformed into the busted ass rust bucket we all love, right before making her famous 12 (and some change) parsec kessel run; And I hope you all experience hart warming joy at the sight as well.