[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Party Elephant

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Han Solo's death was really well done. Unlike most "good guys vs bad guys" movies, this one really had a feeling that it could go either way. I mean, you have Han, after Leia's insistence, begging his son to come with him, and the manipulation by Kylo, who we've established is insecure about the dark side, to go ahead and cold-blooded murder Han like that. Wow. What a villain. At that point I started to think the super weapon would fire, killing Leia and all the resistance, leaving our heroes pretty much on their own for the next movie. It didn't turn out that way, but I was pretty impressed that a mostly fun and lighthearted movie could convince me that it might have a really dark ending like that.

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What I liked about that scene was that you could tell that Han knew that it was futile to even approach Kylo. But he did it for Leia. Whatever specific issues kept them apart, or after Kylo simply drove them and kept apart, he put it all aside for her because they had finally come to terms/reconciled earlier in the movie. It makes it that much more tragic/sad for me.