We all love Star Wars, or else you wouldn’t be reading this.  Most of us also love Game of Thrones.  In a Venn Diagram, the two groups would overlap almost entirely, with the exception of our good friend Blue Knight, because hi insists on being contrary.  Someone should make a T-shirt that combines some iconic image of Star Wars with some iconic image from Game of Thrones.  Oh wait, they did.  And this. And also this.  HEY I KNOW BOTH OF THOSE THINGS!  (Actually, I need to get that third shirt, because, you know, 501st. 

We’ve discussed before how there are several actors who have participated in both franchises.  Julian Glover, Max Von Sydow, and Gwendolyn Christie are probably the most well known, but there are others.  And now we have Emilia Clarke, who you surely know is in Game of Thrones and plays Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Queen of Meereen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Protector of the Realm, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons.  (I just did that to help reach my contractual word count.).  You know what would be crazy?  If Disney hired the Game of Thrones show runners to do a whole new series of Star Wars films.  WHAT?  No way!  I said it first!

Anyway, here we have Qi’ra, presumably Han Solo’s love interest back in the day.  The figure is decent looking, without much source material to go on at this point.  Her outfit is rather “down to Earth,” if you will.  A 3/4 sleeve shearling jacket, denim skirt, black leather pants, and boots pretty much make her an ordinary New Yorker in the fall.  The outfit is painted and sculpted well, for what it is.  Qi’ra comes with a pistol, which she grips well - IN HER ARTICULATED WRISTED HANDS!  Yeah, so this rather non-Star Warsy action figure has 7POA.  Not really sure what the benefit here is.  I sometimes think Hasbro just flips a coin for each figure to decide whether or not it is worthy of some extra tooling investment.  My problem with the figure is the face.  It looks nothing like Emilia Clarke.  The card art is strikingly on point, but it didn’t translate to the figure, unfortunately. 

It’s not particularly exciting, but for a budget figure, it’s well executed, painted, and sculpted.  With the inclusion of the Force Link dialogue, the extra articulation, and just the fact that this is a Star Wars Khaleesi figure, I’m going to give it a slightly better than standard 5.  It could have eked out a 6 if it looked anything like Emilia Clarke.