My buddy with the pop culture site had a summer recap discussion recently;
Site; https://popculturerewind.com Episode 94
App; https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xvxa6-98673b

His partner brought up an interesting thought on the poor reception of Solo. One that hadn’t occurred to me. He pondered the thought that part of the reason people may not have fully embraced Ehrenreich was because we’d just seen the original actor in a very recent film. Prior to the ST, it had been 30 years since we had last seen our hero. Suddenly he was a part of our world again.

We were all, myself included, beyond happy to see Han & Chewie again and catch up on their adventures. To ask us to suddenly accept a new version of one of the most iconic characters in the OT was a big ask on the part of Disney.

In the interest of disclosure: I thought Ehrenreich did a great job but I understand where a great many people did not.