If this movie turns out that bad, I doubt it'd take much to disassociate this "Han Solo" with the original one. How much do you associate Vader with the whining Ani?
Admittedly yes, I have that gift in my head, it's the fact I am able to remember SW77 when that was ALL the SW there ever was. So I can go to that place and time
and imagine away the prequels, even ESB and ROTJ, and get back into the mystery of Vader again, and all the wonderings and conjecture of that time can come to life a little bit.
If I could change anything about the OT, I might prefer that things not be a family affair so much. Vader just a damn mean horrible warlord and I don't need to know or care why he is.
It's a nice place. But I was a kid back then and remember the three years before ESB and all the fan guessing.
As a jaded adult, after truly trying to digest the prequels for some time, and other film disappointments, I've decided it's not always worth trying to eat
that nasty fruitcake just because it's Christmas and maybe I will like it this year. I'll know when the reviews hit and some spoilers.
"the film opens with a teenage Han Solo at the local space malt shop betting his speeder is faster than Space Fonzi's....." Ugh.
Instead of "The film opens with a closeup of a blaster muzzle still smoking as held by a younger Han Solo, as he growls to his friend...
Come on Chewie, the mynocks will take care of the bodies for us."