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3. L3-37 Is Forever Enslaved On The Millennium Falcon
Keeping the ball rolling with another Solo entry, this time focusing on one of its new characters: L3-37. The determined, no-nonsense droid was well promoted as one of the first overtly female droids in the Star Wars films, played by the wonderful Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag and Killing Eve fame.
Throughout the film, L3-37 is part of a sub-plot in which she is striving to free droids from enslavement by starting an uprising; L3-37 also makes a point of being Lando's equal and not his property. The story is an interesting one for the Star Wars franchise to undertake, with it embodying the fight against a racial dominance, rather than government oppression, which is tackled in the main series.
Despite this, the story is often ends up being treated as comedic relief in the film's attempt to balance the story's emotional bearing. What makes L3-37's story deceptively dark is her ultimate fate. Although she perishes during her small uprising on the mining planet Kessel, Lando and Solo take her remains and upload her into the Millennium Falcon for her navigation abilities.
While this may seem like a saving grace by keeping her somewhat alive, the fact of the matter is that she has been enslaved forever on the Falcon, which is even owned by Han at the end of the film, and not her dear friend, Lando. Ever wonder what C-3PO was talking about when he says:
Sir, I don't know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.