The box office numbers have been disheartening. Which is a disappointment, because despite everything that transpired with changing directors midstream I think think movie was better than a lot of fans expected. I'm still hopeful that maybe we can explore the Imperial era underworld of Star Wars. A Boba Fett project seems like it's going to exist within that timeframe. And frankly? I hope that this isn't the last we see of Han, Chewbacca, Lando, and even Qi'ra. The prospects of further exploring the Star Wars underworld is intriguing, especially Han's work for Jabba the Hutt.
And on the topic of Qi'ra... She does conjur up some interesting notions after seeing her in SOLO. How so?
*THEORY*
There seem to be some interesting potential links between Qi'ra and Rey. First of all? There is a remarkable resemblance between Emilia Clark and Daisy Ridley. And their accents in the films are similar. I have heard Daisy Ridley say that was a deliberate choice for the role and that something might come of that at a later date. Now while the question of Rey's parents SEEMS to have been answered by the events of THE LAST JEDI, was it really? The mirror test didn't tell us anything other than Rey essentially raised herself. And Kylo Ren might have been lying to Rey in order to hurt and control her. Why? My theory brings us to one of the unanswered questions of the Sequel Trilogy: what drove apart Han and Leia's marriage? Was it really Ben Solo's fall? Or could it have been something else?
What if Qi'ra came back into the mix? In the events of Bloodline it seemed that Han and Leia were very much living separate lives as she was a Senator. Could Han have fallen back in with his old flame? And could that relationship have yielded a child in Rey? Han seemed to get a sense of who Rey was very quickly during the trip to Takodana. And Maz Kanata asked Han quite pointedly "who's the girl"? Maz knew something was up. Granted, she's Force sensitive, too. But she seemed to sense some type of link between Han and Rey. But if you factor in the added family conflict of a marriage broken by infidelity, that may have driven Ben Solo that much more into the influence of Snoke.
As for Qi'ra? She's working for a former Sith Lord. She has already learned Tera Kasi (loved that nugget from SOLO). And since she would now be answering directly to Maul in her capacity in Crimson Dawn, would she have come close enough to him to potentially learn to use the Force? There's also the matter of some production code names. For TFA the code name for Rey was Kira. And in Episode 9 there is a new female character code named Mara. Could this E9 "Mara" in fact be an older Qi'ra?
*/END THEORY*
It's a theory, but I think it could be one that might tie up some loose ends.