Really? Because it seems to me that it would be obvious that since the Empire existed in the movie, rather than the Republic, it took place between Episodes 3 and 4 - meaning long after Darth Maul’s supposed death. The Empire’s rise is pretty much *the *watershed moment in Star Wars history.
Maul played a big part in a couple of seasons of Star Wars: Clone Wars and was in Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels, ending with the scene I posted a link to above.
Of course, I have to admit his brother’s name still gives me fits. Savage Opress? Really??? George, you insufferable twat. Even being voiced by a god among men (Clancy Brown) doesn’t save the character.
Saw it, thought it was good, but not amazing. Good, though.
Have to give it to Ron Howard. He salvaged a movie that was struggling and made a pretty good movie out of it. Could not have been en easy task.
Lots of fun, kind of forgetable.
Check his legs. Robot legs for sure.
He’s setting up the next movie.
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So new star wars theory. Rey IS a solo just not related to Leia. She’s Han and Qi’ra’s daughter.
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Rey wouldn’t have been born for something like 10-15 years (if I got the timeline right) after Solo. I hope this isn’t the case; I liked the “filthy junk traders” parentage from TLJ.
Way later than that. Rey would have been born about 10 years after Return of the Jedi.
But that’s my point, for people who don’t watch/read the rest of the series outside of the movies Maul died in 1. I don’t know what the Empire might have been doing before this movie, for all I know, again as only a movie watcher, it could have been trying to take over planets here and there. This wasn’t a character that might have died, like Sherlock Holmes, but we saw him split in half.
My friend I saw the movie with was confused as well, and she’s more of a Star Wars fan then I am.
Well yeah, people who don’t watch anything but the movies are going to be confused. The TV shows are canon though, and unlike Marvel it seems like the Star Wars people have decided they actually do matter. Which IMO is for the best, the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels cartoons are some of the best stories in this universe. Hell, the Clone Wars cartoon retroactively makes the shit prequels semi interesting.
Well as you may recall Leia and Han weren’t together in tfa
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I heard a guy in the parking lot after the movie saying, “The timeline is all messed up. Darth Maul wasn’t around at the time this movie took place.”
So, yeah, people are confused.
I knew he survived, but honestly, I think it works not knowing that. It’s kind of a cool reveal that he’s still around.
I am very familiar with Rebels and have seen the Maul episodes of Clone Wars and even I had to do a double take and some math and rethinking in my head when Maul showed up. A causal fan will probably either not realize the incongruity of both the Empire and Maul and somehow place this before Episode one or think it’s a mistake.
Something else: I wonder if all the people who were like, “Rey shouldn’t be good at everything. She’s a nobody from nowhere” would say the same about Han who is basically the same.
They didn’t become estranged until Ben turned dark. That would’ve only been a few years before TFA. I suppose it’s possible Han could have stepped out on Leia but I highly doubt it. They’re not going to go back on making Rey’s parents nobodies.
I liked it OK.
Emilia Clarke did a good enough job that I wasn’t constantly thinking of Daenerys.
Interesting that Han can actually SPEAK (some) Wookiee and not just understand it.
I had a some difficulty keeping track of the double-crosses and triple-crosses and <crime syndicate A> doesn’t want <crime syndicate B> too mad.
I have watched some of the Clone Wars cartoon series (on Netlflix) so seeing Darth Maul wasn’t a complete shock, but I though it was a bit of fan service.
Brian
Which bugged the crap out of me. It’s clumsy writing for the marketing machine to set up the next movie and results in ‘this huge galaxy with trillions of critters’ is only ‘50 or 60 mostly human type characters of interest’.
Darth Vader made C3-PO? Are you KIDDING ME?
IMHO, the movie was better than good, but not as good as Rogue One, which wasn’t as good as The Last Jedi, and that’s all I care to categorize at this point.
I saw it yesterday. I was wondering how they would address the apparent goof from the first movie, in which Han Solo used parsec as a unit of time. So in this film, did they suggest that he made the Kessel run in a shorter distance than previously, correcting the previous goof?
Yes, they did – he cut through the Maelstrom, shortening the distance required.
The Kessel Run was semi-described in a few different ways through the Expanded Universe. Some thought it was a race, some thought it was a smuggling route. The maelstrom and maw, with black holes in its centre, was the prevailing one and they have adapted that origin pretty closely for the movie, only shifting it to earlier in Han’s life than previously.
The Maul reveal left me underwhelmed. It would have been so much better if it had been the Emperor or Vader, and Qira had been an Emperor’s Hand.
I liked the fact they did not go for 20something Harrison Ford; I can see this Solo developing into the ANH Hand in a decade.
I loved the recruitment scene, though I hated the “Solo” origin story. It was very funny when the recruiter promised him pilot school and he ended up in the infantry.
To be fair, he did make it to flight school - he just washed out.
It’s interesting, BTW, that this is the first time we’ve seen Empire infantry that wasn’t Stormtroopers. I wonder how it works. Are the Stormtroopers the Marines? The Janissary Corps? The Waffen-SS? Some combination of the above? Whatever they are, it looks like they’re some sort of elite force - in terms of loyalty, if not marksmanship - with the bulk of the military being poorly-trained grunts and cannon fodder. Interesting. If nothing else, the film has given us a lot more background material than usual for a SW film.