To go back to the discussion on Han’s character arc, if he doesn’t get any closer at all to how we know him in the OT, and he goes through something that resembles nothing like the character we know, then what is the point of the movie? (Kind of what Mala said)

Why not have Han start out optimistic and then give him an arc where he becomes jaded? It’s a much better idea in my opinion. And also there is nothing wrong with Han being jaded at the end of this movie and then staying like that for another decade until A New Hope. That would make more sense since he is very resistant to moving from his opportunistic and cynical view on the world when he meets Luke/Leia.

That is why it’s a low stakes movie. It’s cause at no point did I ever feel invested in someone trying to become Han Solo. I wanted to see a natural arc of him going from optimistic and positive (Han resembles ANH Luke a lot in this movie) to the Han Solo we know and we did not see that. Instead he starts out like Luke in ANH, and ends the same way.