I fully expected Jabba to show up at the end as the criminal overlord, so I ended up liking Darth Maul’s appearance because it genuinely surprised me. Lighting his lightsaber was really excessive though, the only truly cringeworthy moment in the film for me apart from the “Solo” name explanation.

(I still don’t know why some fans were fascinated by Darth Maul in the first place, so much so that creators keep putting him in series and films. He wasn’t even a character in TPM, just a visual effect.)

I liked L3 as well, because I took her as a parody of social justice as opposed to social justice. Her lines about droid rights and organic overlords were clearly meant to be humourous, and so were her romantic fantasy about Lando.

Did any of you guys played Mass Effect by any chance? There was a human/cyborg romance there, between the human pilot Joker and the ship AI/robot EDI. Which I didn’t like exactly because it was took seriously.

Also, the ending with Qi’ra killing his former boss, then sitting at his desk and taking over his criminal empire reminded me of the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, in which Liara does the same with the Shadow Broker.