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I want to see a certain run being made in a certain number of parsecs.

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Should we make a list of what we hope to see?

I'll start:

Brief time as an Imperial
Freeing Chewie
Kessel Maw


Those are my big three.

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Jabba the Hutt trying various diets to lose weight.
The Kessel Run being a 5K that Han competes in for charity.
Lando using the Falcon as fully-functioning pimp-mobile
Han and Boba Fett being best friends in college and then becoming enemies because of a Twi'lek slave girl who dates them both.

I would love a new KOTOR for current gen platforms...not the MMO, just the regular RPG. What a phenomenal game

Someone edited the colors and made it textless. Phone wallpaper material.

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This is so incredibly spot on...

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/01/07/han-solo-all-things-must-pass

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I agree that I'd have liked one more beat at Han's death, and that an angry Han out trying to catch up with his son would have been strong. However, I disagree strongly with a couple of points anout character arcs of Luke and Han.

Luke doesn't just leave when things got bad. He spent years teaching new Jedi, going through what had to be struggles and toil, full of mistakes. He leaves because the fall of his own family shows him that he is dangerous, so he removes himself from the equation. And he doesn't just leave. He leaves looking for answers. It's unfair to categorize it as abandonment.

On the same count for Han, I think that him leaving to try and give Leia some peace is well within his arc. It's what he tries to do in Jedi, as the author even points out... leave to make Leia happy.

As to the rest of the criticism's of Han's story, there are some practical issues. For one, I wonder how Ford's injury impacted rewrites. Second, this is basically a Star Wars reboot, and as such was written to be familiar and simple without the need for complex twists and thematic studies. I'd love to see the story the author talks about, but they weren't going to add another half hour to the movie to really get into it. To do it justice, you'd need at least one more location, and all of the establishing that requires.

Thirdly on Han, and most importantly, to tell the story the author wants to see, this movie becomes about Han Solo. But this movie isn't about Han. This movie is about Rey and Finn and Poe.

The author says Han's death happened at the wrong time. Really, he's right. To get the buildup he wants, really the death shouldn't have even happened in Episode 7, but in 8. But, that was not an option.

He makes good points, but even art as important as Star Wars has to conform to creative restraints of time, money, and as actors crashing their planes and refusing to do sequels. I think that's the root of his criticism as much as anything.