too bad, because a lot more lando was called for, even if only fanon lando

Solo was a decent action movie in spite of its flaws, and I think introduced Han, Chewie, and Lando in ways that were in character for them and fun. Other aspects of it looked a bit odd and I suspect suffered from having too many decision makers involved, or at least from having the plan changed partway through (even if those changes were for the better), like the decision to introduce droid rights and how it was handled, and the design of the whole gang of criminals where as several people have pointed out it probably could have been significantly tightened up by having Thandie Newton's character the leader and/or the survivor... . Anyway! The movie bombed and the toxic/entitled portion of male fandom hated it.

But while the movie didn't necessarily make me want to buy and rewatch it, I was actually pleasantly surprised by the note-perfect flirting between Han and Lando, which I fully expected to ignite a bunch of shipping when I left the theater. I guess the real reason it hasn't done is basically that hardly anyone saw it.

Which is really too bad. The bits that introduced Han and Lando were great - funny, full of subtext, and fully in line with the theory that Han and Lando had an on-and-off thing in the years between Solo and the original trilogy and that the reason Lando is wearing Han's clothes at the end of The Empire Strikes Back is that they had just fucked.

Of course, there also might be a lesser fannish enthusiasm available for a character whose tragic end is already canon, or a ship who aren't mfeo.

a passing pang for the oyster world

I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling—and I think correctly—that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn thing after another.

- PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

gay changes to the Karla trilogy continued

Since being gay was a 3000% improvement in the character of Peter Guillam, my thoughts returned to it frequently while reading and I think you could do it quite well in ( The Honourable Schoolboy... )