Chief among these is the fact that Solo: A Star Wars Story drops us straight into the relationship of Han Solo and Qi’ira, without providing much insight into the nature of Han’s female counterpart.
By offering up even more footage from the film’s opening scene, the Expanded Edition of Solo: A Star Wars Story can give viewers a better understanding of who she was during her life on Corellia.
This footage could’ve been necessary for a number of reasons.
From there, that also provides a lot more insight into who she would eventually become after the prologue when she eventually goes on to work for Dryden Vos and Darth Maul as a secret mole.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition by Mur Lafferty