Irdiumstern
Getting sticky.
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Lando aced the character. Alden sounded and acted like a lost child, which could have worked for an origin story if it had been done well.
My main problems with his character:
Han Solo is the quintessential guile hero. Alden looks and acts more like the traditional action hero.
Alden's successes are all away from the action or just brawn based. He solves problems for the party with his piloting twice, but both times are just alden sitting there looking concentrated in a way that makes me think skill check passed, move on.
We've got han solo as a cynical scoundrel with a heart of gold. In it for the money, but willing to help his friends. Alden is at best chaotic good leaning neutral good. The whole bait and switch bad guy scene near the end was unnecessary, very wtf, and read lawful good to me, which is not an impression i should get from han solo.
The rest of the cast didn't particularely impress me either (I expected much better from woody harrelson in particular). Danerys was better than expected, but that derives mainly from how low my expectations for her were. As i said, Lando captured the character perfectly. I have no trouble believing the lando we saw here could be the one we saw in the OT with a bit of seasoning. I personally liked his droid, but I can see how that could be divisive.
5/10 for me.
My main problems with his character:
Han Solo is the quintessential guile hero. Alden looks and acts more like the traditional action hero.
Alden's successes are all away from the action or just brawn based. He solves problems for the party with his piloting twice, but both times are just alden sitting there looking concentrated in a way that makes me think skill check passed, move on.
We've got han solo as a cynical scoundrel with a heart of gold. In it for the money, but willing to help his friends. Alden is at best chaotic good leaning neutral good. The whole bait and switch bad guy scene near the end was unnecessary, very wtf, and read lawful good to me, which is not an impression i should get from han solo.
The rest of the cast didn't particularely impress me either (I expected much better from woody harrelson in particular). Danerys was better than expected, but that derives mainly from how low my expectations for her were. As i said, Lando captured the character perfectly. I have no trouble believing the lando we saw here could be the one we saw in the OT with a bit of seasoning. I personally liked his droid, but I can see how that could be divisive.
5/10 for me.