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What scene is the worst in movie history that Han Solo was the protagonist of? The video has been removed from YouTube.

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Not sure why you would stop, I'd pay double for this content. As someone who has become a hardcore prequel defender I'd largely agree that the biggest problem - other than the AWFUL attempts at comedy - is starting with a 9 year old. It makes zero sense with what we already knew, turns Anakin into a semi-comedic character, and provides the creepiest romance in a series that also involves siblings making out. Meanwhile, Episode III was legitimately good but horribly rushed. Compressing the first two movies and drawing out the third into two separate movies - with an entire film of conflicted but increasingly more evil Annakin - would've clearly worked better.

Also, I always thought my problem with The Last Jedi was that most of it was painfully boring. But my mind is blown because the ending you propose makes that movie actually interesting and provides a more satisfying narrative to the entire trilogy.

I also will defend those of us who wanted Kylo and Rey together as being anti-shippers. It wasn't out of some "I want to see them as a couple!" nonsense. It's that the only time the sequels were consistently good was when those two were interacting. They were two excellent actors (who had chemistry) with the only even remotely interesting characters in the trilogy. Wanting them together isn't shipping, it's wanting a good movie. Your idea of them creating a new non-Sith/Jedi version of Force users also has the added benefit of providing a narrative that doesn't completely shit on the emotional stakes of the first six films.

Instead we got what we got.

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