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  1. How Solo: A Star Wars Story succeeds as a Star Wars film by balancing nostalgia and subversion medium.com/@SimonXIX/solo-a-star-wars-story-never-tell-me-the-odds-99db6a50f172
    1. …in reply to @SimonXIX
      While I'm out here openly preferring the standalone Star Wars films to the sequel trilogy films, I also wish that Lucasfilm would follow through properly and produce a Star Wars film that does not have a single lightsaber in it.
      1. …in reply to @SimonXIX
        I remember a quote from someone working on Rogue One to the effect that it was about Star Wars characters who have been 'abandoned' by the Jedi and who can't rely on Jedi to turn up to save them. I want to see that kind of hopelessness.
    2. …in reply to @SimonXIX
      My last two film reviews were for Star Wars films so I guess look forward to my next review in 2019.