Solo [Official Info] Phoebe Waller-Bridge (L3-37) in Solo

Have to admit, going into the movie I didn't think L3 would die in Solo.

I thought maybe they'd keep her alive and we'd even see L3 and Lando cameo in Episode 9.

 

L3 is hilarious, a really nice balance between humor and massage. I like that they managed use her to comment on sex-robots in a very intelligent way.

 

Clearly copied from this character:



I didn't mind her, though. At least she was not a reference to the OT, for once.

 

Even though they're now telling us she's IN the OT, as part of the MF...

 

Oh... you're right, I forgot. I'll give it a pass, as a reference it was less annoying than many others.

 

This is awesome!

 

Yah I still get the feeling L3 could either be in the MF by the time of the OT or maybe get uploaded into Lobot. However, as shown in the Lando mini, Lobot had a personality until he had to turn on his robo-switch which made him kind of a robo-drone so I don't think that he would be as stone-faced if he had L3 swimming around there.

 

How about a Lando and L3 animated series or movie? That’s be fun. And more L3 is a good thing. I’d love to see more of their dynamic.

 

How about an L3 Muppet show?

 

L3 is the standout character among a whole bunch of new faces, of whom I'm fond pretty much across the board.

It's good that she still exists, because it would've been pretty sad for her to die with finality in Solo.

 

I liked L3 more than I thought I would. She kind of mocks social activists. I like how she was intergrated into the Falcon's navigational computer, that's what makes the Falcon exceptional over any other ship.

 

L3, possibly worse than Jar Jar...

 

Right. Yeah. Sure. OK.

 

I don't really think that she mocks social activists, although I suppose that it can be read either way. For me it plays like good natured ribbing that has kind of a sincere payoff with the little Kessel rebellion.

 

I think her droid activism is a jokey quirk that ultimately gets her killed and enslaved, it's more ironic than anything. She has a quirky personality which sees herself and other droids as sentient individuals, Lando keeps it because he likes her and he doesn't want to wipe her to lose her star charts, her droid activism gets her killed and she's used for her star charts. (and the droid's she's obsessed with "freeing" seem about as grateful and/or dumb as a box of rocks, or Gonks) She's a comedic supporting character that you feel sad when she dies. Or she lives on forever in the Falcon. Depending on your point of view.

 

The pertinent L3 beats are:
1) L3 frequently points up structural inequality between droids and humans, as a hobby or past time that is not serious because she does not feel it is a fruitful endeavor, but could one day by accident, or with serendipity, result in some movement of the dial.
2) L3 has to get that little droid out of the way so she can get to that terminal. She removes his restraining bolt and tells him to go free his peers "or something". She continues to dismiss that activism is of any real use, for, structural inequality is pervasive and there are multiple safeguards in place to maintain it.
3) Unbeknownst to her, unintended by her, not consciously designed as a next move by her, that little droid becomes a butterfly wing in Indonesia and goes about acting upon tensions of structural inequality without instruction.
4) When someone asks what's happening in the control room, L3 cannot quite perfectly believe that her small act, which was not committed with intentional design, has resulted in an outcome at one with her persistent purpose. She is in a form of pleased denial, and she says, as if to convince herself of her own agency as well as her listeners, "I created a distraction!" Yes, she did, technically, but it was not by design, it was by accidental cool. But she owns it.
5) As she absorbs the reality of what her small act chain reacted inside an environment of structural inequality, she becomes gleeful and says "I'm so glad we took this job" (whereas she had not wanted to go to Kessel to being with).
6) As she exits the control room, she says, "Follow me compatriots!" She fully owns the new, bifurcated, secondary timeline of intention that her random small act has brought into being.
7) Outside the gates to the surface, she is saying something I forget. But the major point is that she has largely forgotten that she is integral to human plans to move coaxium around. She is in her own element and in her own struggle that she defines for herself. She exits stage left fighting for what she believes.
8) As she's dying, she has statements "System restart failure. Restart failure." Droid deaths are usually played for laughs like was seen with "you must follow the proper... protocol". This is dialed to a more existential dread. Her last statements in Lando's arms are "What's happening to me?" That's new territory for Star Wars. Like someone else has pointed out, another small detail of new territory is where an Imperial soldier is screaming 'my leg!', and we know what that means.

 

I realllly didn't like L3. Certainly not because I disagree with the message of droids being treated nicely. They're not all smart but the way they get treated in SW kinda sucks. I didn't like L3 because she presents these serious issues whilst being kind of a joke. Ben Kenobi never rolled his eyes when Luke said he hated the Empire. Im all good with presenting morals in SW but you need to handle it with more grace.

 

L3 was probably my second favourite character of the movie, Lando being first.

lmao, no.

 

Not even close.

 

I think so!

 

You're wrong.

 

I still don't get all the anger toward this character by the right wing.
She's the parody of an activist. If there really had to be someone complaining about her, shouldn't it be a Jill Stein supporter, or something similar?

 

I don't like her because she seems like a right winger's idea of an activist.

But the fact that people are debating this shows that, whatever the intent was, the idea wasn't well communicated.

 

C’mon. She’s not exactly espousing radical ideas. She’s anti-slavery. If that triggers the manbabies among the alt-right, does that mean they are...pro-slavery?