A Trail of Clues and Fan Service in ‘Solo’: An Easter Egg Movie

You already saw Solo. You loved it, you hated it. The Kessel Run was underwhelming and women were sacrificed in order for Han to be wild ‘meh’ for two hours, but the Easter Egg game was Deadpool-levels of self-aware! Let’s touch base on how Ron Howard ultimately dropped the ball while making some great choices (despite several scripts and directors helming this movie). Oh yeah, and Lando needs a movie asap. Teras Kasi

Qi’ra’s hands were pansexual – everybody was eligible for the fade. When she was rocking that M.Bison cape she borrowed from Lando’s custom collection, she could’ve rolled up in Tekken like, ‘what’s good?’. When asked how she gave homie that smoke, she simply replied, “ Teras Kasi.” Which was a terrible fighting game for the OG Playstation that could’ve been the jam, but wasn’t. It had a dope ass story though (shout out to Mara Jade Skywalker). Han’s Blaster

Beckett was smooth with the toast, like Emilio in Young Guns. Like Spike Spiegel on any given Wednesday with the nunchucks. Beckett had bodies on his choppas, like “21 bodies on all 21 guns”. His joints was interchangeable: we watched it transform from a sniper rifle into its core component, a DL-44H heavy blaster, and hand it to Han. Han rocks that for pretty much the rest of his life. Intention At Corellia We learn that Solo is from Corellia – a planet with a long history in the Star Wars Universe. Darth Maul & Dathomir

Toward the end of Solo – after a cool three-way fight with Qi’ra, Han, and Vos –…

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