I’ve messed around with it too and I just cut all of that out. Because Qi’ra and Han kind of repeat the things they want in the speeder on the way to the spaceport.
So in your version, you have him find Qi’ra in the sewers and then hop on the speeder?
Yeah. I didn’t really consider that you do sort of repeat the exposition in the speeder. But either way I think you miss something without that scene. First of all, I like starting the film with Solo solo. Second, I feel like we need at least a little bit of a beat to get to know these characters before we have to invest in an action scene with them, and getting to see their living quarters and hear them speak about their situation I think would go some ways to help.
Like I said though the problem is with the music, where you get the swelling love theme in the sewers and then the action cue that starts up right as they run to the speeder. If the center channel was clear it’d be easy to smooth it out, but it’s not so I’ll have to find some solution.
I will say though I never considered your idea, and I’d be curious to see how it would play out.