Love that artwork.

Lately I’ve been wondering if Qi’ra from Solo will be in this series. It would be a nice way to bring her character back, and I’d love to see Emilia Clarke getting the chance to play her again. However, we’re currently in the middle of an ongoing comic series about her by Charles Soule so it would be very strange timing (Qi’ra’s presence and status in TBOBF would effectively spoil the end of the comic series), and I don’t see Lucasfilm taking Soule’s ambitious pitch for a Qi’ra story (which he apparently made last year) and incorporating it into a planned live action show. As fantastic as it would be to see Lucasfilm publishing and the team behind the series working together, Lucasfilm have been treading very carefully with their newfound success in TV and have kept novel and comic authors far away from it (think the cancelled Mando novel, etc.)

The worst that could happen is the show completely ignores the story from the comics (which would presumably be because it was written and filmed ages ago and they didn’t know about it), which would signify a complete breakdown of organisation and communication between departments. But I’m just getting paranoid about books and comics getting retconned again. Retcons in The Bad Batch did this to me!