Originally posted by: theredbaron
Could definitely see a lot of Han Solo there...

YES. my biggest complaint (besides the wooden acting/dialogue) about the SW prequel trilogy is prolly its lack of a Han Solo type. pretty much every other type is hauled out from the original trilogy, but there's no Solo (WTF?). they hired Samuel L. Jackson, who is a master of dealing out trash-talk and one-liners on screen, and didn't think "hmm maybe he oughta play a bad-muthafucka space pirate"? so, nah, they merely replaced Solo's cool attitude and humor with Jar-Jar's obnoxious pratfalls & pidgin-Basic in Episode I, and then II & III are just about completely humorless. i think Jack O'Neill of Stargate SG-1 was the Han Solo of the 1990s, and Firefly's Mal Reynolds is the Solo of the 2000s.