Solo: A Star Wars Story

[xipotec]

Its almost like people don’t like anything new...

Reshow the OT characters acting like they did in OT and your golden....

Show a new character or and older one (not doing what they did when we last saw them?)

No good.



Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....

 

[spindrift]

RO better than the entire PT put together and made better 100X

 

[Khev]

Another note about RO and solo- one thing I felt they nailed was the creature and alien design, in which I felt the ST was lacking.

Speaking of alien characters, why the hell did the Resistance allow idiot engineer/deserter/judgy crackpot *Rose Tico* (who also contributed to 80% of the transports getting annihilated) to fly on Poe's wing on Crait and not *twice renowned* hero pilot Nien Nunb??



lol

 

[Popnfresh98]

Speaking of alien characters, why the hell did the Resistance allow idiot engineer/deserter/judgy crackpot *Rose Tico* (who also contributed to 80% of the transports getting annihilated) to fly on Poe's wing on Crait and not *twice renowned* hero pilot Nien Nunb??



lol

That’s... a really good question and something I hadn’t even considered so far

And damn, don’t give me more reasons not to like it lol. I’m off the hate train, don’t rope me back in

(jk, life’s too short to hate on a movie for too long)

Also @ idiot engineer/deserter/judgy crackpot

That’s her version of ‘genius/billionaire/playboy/philanthropist’

 

[Star-Crunch]

I didn’t even realize Solo was out, and I just saw it sitting on top of a pile of Halloween candy at target

 

[Khev]

That’s... a really good question and something I hadn’t even considered so far

And damn, don’t give me more reasons not to like it lol. I’m off the hate train, don’t rope me back in

Oh even those of us who are fans of TLJ are roped in on the Rose hate train, lol. For me she doesn't ruin the things I like about the movie but she contributes absolutely *nothing* good to the narrative. I can't believe that Jyn and Qi'ra are one-and-dones but we get two more hours of Rose.

(jk, life’s too short to hate on a movie for too long)

Also @ idiot engineer/deserter/judgy crackpot

That’s her version of ‘genius/billionaire/playboy/philanthropist’

 

[Wor-Gar]

Solo is such a tiny movie when compared to the superior RO.

This man gets it.

To me when Jyn and Saw are arguing about him leaving her behind it plays as if a much longer time period than five years has passed. "I was *sixteen* years old!" doesn't sound like something a 21 year old would say but I could imagine it coming from a 30 year old. I'm not saying that it isn't "official" that Jyn was 21 but in my mind the film itself (always the most important reference) doesn't treat her as such.

But Jyn was always about 21 in the movie. I understood that going in. Your love affair with Felicity doesn't count as evidence that she's 33 in the movie (always the most important reference).

 

[Khev]

But Jyn was always about 21 in the movie.

Based on what?

 

[Wor-Gar]

Based on what?

Things I read, reviews, her own discussion about playing a much younger character. There was a lot of talk about a 33 year old actress playing a young woman; I'm quite certain we even discussed it in the RO thread around the time of the movie -- talking about how Felicity looks good enough to play someone 21. Are you serious that you don't remember any of this?

EDIT: I couldn't really find anything in the RO thread using a few 'age' searches but here's an article, just for example, from December 13, 2016, that quite clearly states her age (just grabbed the first article to pop up on google with a 2016 date):

https://www.bustle.com/articles/199922-how-old-is-jyn-erso-in-rogue-one-shes-a-young-rebel-fighter

 

[loki2371]

Jyn is in her early twenties in RO. I read the Rogue One Catalyst novel. That novel I believe starts somewhere between AOTC & ROTS. The clone wars are underway, and construction has already secretly begun as seen at the end of AOTC when Dooku is given the plans by the geonosians. It is being built above the planet Genosia.

Jyn is born in that time frame. So, if we know there is like 3 - 4 years between AOTC & ROTS, then 19 years between ROTS & ANH, that's a total timeline of around 23 years. And therefore that is approximately Jyns age. Anywhere between 21 & 23 based on the timelines of those movies.

 

[Khev]

Things I read, reviews, her own discussion about playing a much younger character. There was a lot of talk about a 33 year old actress playing a young woman; I'm quite certain we even discussed it in the RO thread around the time of the movie -- talking about how Felicity looks good enough to play someone 21. Are you serious that you don't remember any of this?

EDIT: I couldn't really find anything in the RO thread using a few 'age' searches but here's an article, just for example, from December 13, 2016, that quite clearly states her age (just grabbed the first article to pop up on google with a 2016 date):

https://www.bustle.com/articles/199922-how-old-is-jyn-erso-in-rogue-one-shes-a-young-rebel-fighter

Jyn is in her early twenties in RO. I read the Rogue One Catalyst novel. That novel I believe starts somewhere between AOTC & ROTS. The clone wars are underway, and construction has already secretly begun as seen at the end of AOTC when Dooku is given the plans by the geonosians. It is being built above the planet Genosia.

Jyn is born in that time frame. So, if we know there is like 3 - 4 years between AOTC & ROTS, then 19 years between ROTS & ANH, that's a total timeline of around 23 years. And therefore that is approximately Jyns age. Anywhere between 21 & 23 based on the timelines of those movies.

Thanks guys, I was curious as to whether a novelization or spin-off novel mentioned her age. All I have in print on the subject is a hardcover collector's book on the movie that mentions that Saw takes her when she's 8. I guess just going by that she couldn't possibly be in her 30's because that would mean more than 22 years would have to pass after she joins Saw and the Empire didn't even reign that long from beginning to end, lol.

And no Wor-Gar, I don't recall reaching any conclusions about her age when the movie came out, I must have spaced on those discussions, lol.

On a semi-related note isn't Emilia Clarke in her early 30's too? So that makes two now between her and Felicity playing chicks in their early 20's. I assume that's Qi'ra's age anyway since that's how old young Han would have been (post Mimban anyway.)

 

[Wor-Gar]

Star Wars girls (meaning Leia, Padme, Rey, Jyn, and likely Qi-ra) always seem to be aged from teens to early twenties for the most part.

Jyn is born in that time frame. So, if we know there is like 3 - 4 years between AOTC & ROTS, then 19 years between ROTS & ANH, that's a total timeline of around 23 years. And therefore that is approximately Jyns age. Anywhere between 21 & 23 based on the timelines of those movies.

Yeah, I think that's how it was deduced around here in 2016 that Jyn was in her early twenties by simply taking Luke's age (19) with the assumption that Galen must have had Jyn around that same time the Death Star was being built. She had to be around Luke's age. Being in her 30's would have had her born around the Phantom Menace time and long before any Empire secret project.

 

[Khev]

Star Wars girls (meaning Leia, Padme, Rey, Jyn, and likely Qi-ra) always seem to be aged from teens to early twenties for the most part.

Two Lucas characters, an Abrams character, an Edwards character, and a Howard character. Poor RJ, lol.

 

[Wor-Gar]

He really did shake up all the tropes. Almost.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Two Lucas characters, an Abrams character, an Edwards character, and a Howard character. Poor RJ, lol.

Seeing those three reminds me how much I loathe that turd in the wind.

 

[Popnfresh98]

Oh even those of us who are fans of TLJ are roped in on the Rose hate train, lol. For me she doesn't ruin the things I like about the movie but she contributes absolutely *nothing* good to the narrative. I can't believe that Jyn and Qi'ra are one-and-dones but we get two more hours of Rose.

Lol, true. We got completely jipped. And you know after everything that happened that she’s gonna be shoved right in our faces too.

At least with Jar Jar they had the good sense to severely diminish his role in the following movies, with the only significant thing he did being dooming the republic

Two Lucas characters, an Abrams character, an Edwards character, and a Howard character. Poor RJ, lol.

I love that you’ve included dramatic big nose lady in there as well

And Kelly Marie Tran is 29 I think, she would almost fit the ‘SW lady trend’ depending on what Rose’s age is meant to be. (I have no clue)

Though I gotta say I never believed Jyn passed as 21 years old, but there are a lot of age discrepancies in SW already so it’s not something that bothers me at all

 

[Wor-Gar]

but there are a lot of age discrepancies in SW already so it’s not something that bothers me at all

Its all that travelling in space and hyperspace -- messes with your age.

 

[Khev]

Its all that travelling in space and hyperspace -- messes with your age.

Indeed!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Is that Bill Cosby with irishJedi?

 

[loki2371]

Indeed!

Ice Pirates!! Love that movie. Haven't seen it in ages.