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Solo - A Star Wars Story Worth Telling? Featuring Maude Garrett!
🕑 Added 2018-05-29 03:33:05 +0000 UTC **Comment your review of the episode to be read on the next episode!**This week Sam Bashor and DJ Wooldridge are joined by Star Wars aficionado Maude Garrett to discuss the latest addition to the canon - "Solo: A Star Wars Story". Starring Alden Ehrenreich as the iconic smuggler along with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and Donald Glover, does the latest Star Wars story live up to its heft legacy?
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Without spoilers I have to say, it was a fun ride, but I still feel it suffers from the problem I feared it would all along: it's just not a story begging to be told, and I feel no matter what the narrative was, it could never feel as - let alone more - compelling than the arc for Han we've already seen. The most interesting part of his story (well, sans the years between VI and VII, but that would be more of a family & political drama I doubt anyone but me wants to see lol) has already been seen on screen in both the original trilogy and The Force Awakens imho. So, my verdict is: fun, not bad by any means, just... not as engrossing or compelling or vital as the existing Solo canon, and therefore suffers from feeling contrived and meandering somewhat.
