DominicCobb said:
“Move, ball” says a lot about his personality but nothing about his current situation in life. “Being Han Solo” doesn’t tell the full story.What do you need the full story for? Or better, what’s the point of telling the “full story” if the character didn’t change at all since last time you saw him in OT?
Ah yes because when we meet him in TFA he is exactly where we last saw him in ROTJ, having has cast aside his smuggling ways to be with Leia and the cause.
As I said, there is nothing wrong with a stagnant character. The problem is when I film sets up a character for change but then doesn’t resolve it. If they wanted to tell Cassian’s story as the “unavoidable fate of a soldier,” they should have told that story. Instead that gave him a moral quandary but didn’t go anywhere with it.
They told that story. He died. He made decissions that made it unfair that he died, but he did because that’s how war is. The whole point of the film was exactly that, good and mortal people that are not as lucky destiny-blessed Luke but turned out to be exactly as important as him.
Just because that is the basic what happened, doesn’t mean they did any justice to telling that story.