Judging the franchise by the performance of Solo is kind of foolish. I think I have said it in this thread but Han Solo is popular only among a vocal minority of Star Wars fans. Most of the casual fans go for the force powers and light saber fights. So dropping a movie that features little to none of that, during the summer sandwiched between two major superhero sequels was like jumping on a NASCAR track to streak during a race. If a Star Wars episode IX teaser drops and isn’t over 3 million views on Youtube in a week then you can declare the franchise as a whole in trouble.
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Ehh, there wasn’t exactly a great deal of force shit in Rogue One and that still did fine.
Unless you’re telling me the majority of people went to see it solely to see the 2 minute carnage of Darth Vader alone.
It is not just Solo though. One of the biggests part of Star Wars profits comes from merchandise sales. TLJ merchandise sales were poor.
Outside of the weird Stormtrooper axe thing, there hasn’t been a lot of cool unique merchandizing opportunities. If I was a kid, not exactly going to be hype over the crappy salt ships that got blown out. Landspeeders were cool, the hovering motorcycle things were cool, that one quite wasn’t.
People can get mad over how popular he is for no reason, but Boba Fett just oozed cool looking. Even Kylo’s outfit is kinda flaccid. Think the new movies are seriously lacking in the “I wanna be that/play with that” factor.
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When I first saw Rey I thought I wanna play with that.
I’ll bet you did. 
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That might not have come out as intended.
Prematurely?
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All over your mom’s face.
So… you’re impotent then, is it?
My mom has been ashes in the wind for over a decade.
This MIGHT explain your overcompensating for TLJ.
I don’t know how, but it might.
I’d rather just Occam it down to taste cancer.
You’d like to Occum it, innit?
Light a saber, do some Rey tracing, succumb to the Dank Side of the Farce that is TLJ?
Oh shit, dude. My bad man. Didn’t mean no disrespect, just talking shit. Sorry, for real.
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S’all good.
I mean except, y’know - TLJ.
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I wouldn’t say that’s all of it, but it was definitely a factor. I honestly don’t think R1 would be looked at in the same way if they didn’t add that scene in post.
I don’t know, all the things I liked about Rogue One didn’t involve Vader. Still need to give Solo a second viewing. Although the second viewing may be a little bit worse because of all the “OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE” moments in the movie.
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I enjoyed the second half of Rogue One. Solo would be the equivalent of intentionally going to McDonalds, ordering a Big Mac, and have it crafted as if someone gave a damn.
The second half of R1 and the ground battle sequence in Solo proves that we need a Republic Commando movie.
EDIT
It is done!
Neato!
Time to get my body ready for the massive salt intake come Christmas.
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I couldn’t get into rogue one at all. Too many characters and none of them were really interesting or mattered. I honestly couldn’t tell you a single one of their names, back stories or goals except “grrr we don’t like the empire!”
The coolest characters by a huge margin were Donnie Yen’s character and his seeing eye bad ass. They kinda stole the show imo. Still couldn’t tell you their names or anything about them tho other than they hate the empire and they did some cool pseudo-Jedi kung fu shit.
I didn’t bother seeing Solo. I hate Han Solo as a character so it didn’t even remotely appeal to me.
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Other than Jyn and Director Krennic, there was only one character whose name I actually remember
Legit forgot Forest Whitaker was even in rogue one.
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