Star Wars Rogue One MASSIVE SPOILERS BY BERKUT

[Neil]

How appropriate is this movie to take for younger kids (when compared to the other movies)?

If they've seen Episode 3 and 5, they should be fine.  If they can handle that not all the heroes are going to walk away, they'll be fine.

[Syt]

I'm fine with that. The opening crawl for saga episodes only. It's overused in Star Wars entertainment anyway.

Glad they kept the end credits theme though.

Oh, not complaining. Just feels a bit odd.

There were a few more shout outs to earlier drafts of the saga. The order of the Whills comes to mind, or "May the Force of Others be with you." Similar to the appearend of the force sensitive (a?) Bendu in Rebels (the Jedi were originally called the Jedi Bendu).

Heh, listening to the soundtrack on Spotify while doing some work. Just noticed the playback progress bar is a lightsaber.

[celedhring]

 

One thing that slightly bothered me is the fact that Leia is present at the battle of Scarif. Doesn't make any sense for her being there. She's still a Senator at the time, plus it's hinted previously that his stepdad is sending her to Tatooine.

[Syt]

Yes, it would have been better if she was elsewhere getting a desperately relayed transmission and then making a run.

Of course it looked cooler this way.

[garbon]

I hadn't planned to see this anytime soon but I did and I liked it.

Could have done though without the silly climb in data center with requisite opening and closing door death trap.

Also, I'm guessing some people in the theater were drunk as they laughed a little too hard at the laugh lines.

[Syt]

Could have done though without the silly climb in data center with requisite opening and closing door death trap.

The Empire hates OSHA.

[celedhring]

Could have done though without the silly climb in data center with requisite opening and closing door death trap.

Yeah, servicing that dish must be a bitch 

[Syt]

Could have done though without the silly climb in data center with requisite opening and closing door death trap.

Yeah, servicing that dish must be a bitch 

I'm also curious how they got so quickly from the top of that structure to the scenic beach to await fiery death.

Also, Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan were also lucky to leave Jedha in time before the nuking.

The Star Destroyer above Jedha was neat. Reminded me of Star Wars Galaxies, where you often had ISDs in the sky (though higher up) to denote Imperial occupation.

[garbon]

Not important but I also wondered about all the locations. Why introduce Wobani if sole scene was Jyn being "rescued" by the rebels.

[Syt]

Not important but I also wondered about all the locations. Why introduce Wobani if sole scene was Jyn being "rescued" by the rebels.

That answer is probably coming in a tie in novel.

I think a big reason why I enjoyed the movie was that the usual main characters were almost completely absent. In the old Expanded Universe my favorite stories were usually those that didn't focus on the Skywalkers and Solos (which quickly became a soap opera) but rather did something with side characters or created completely new ones.

I always looked at the Star Wars universe as a means of escapism, a big adventure playground, and instead of following the main narrative I was always curious about what lay beyond what was seen on screen.

[Drakken]

Not important but I also wondered about all the locations. Why introduce Wobani if sole scene was Jyn being "rescued" by the rebels.

According to IMDB, that was indeed an hommage to Obi-Wan.

[garbon]

Not important but I also wondered about all the locations. Why introduce Wobani if sole scene was Jyn being "rescued" by the rebels.

According to IMDB, that was indeed an hommage to Obi-Wan.

I guess. Seems lame. Wookiepedia notes it was mentioned in Battlefront.

[garbon]

I think a big reason why I enjoyed the movie was that the usual main characters were almost completely absent. In the old Expanded Universe my favorite stories were usually those that didn't focus on the Skywalkers and Solos (which quickly became a soap opera) but rather did something with side characters or created completely new ones.

I always looked at the Star Wars universe as a means of escapism, a big adventure playground, and instead of following the main narrative I was always curious about what lay beyond what was seen on screen.

Of course, what clearly laid beyond was a bunch of dead side characters.

[Syt]

 

The biggest weirdness that such movies that are inserted into an existing series create is that nobody ever mentiones their heroic sacrifice ever again. I suppose Rogue Squadron might be named after them, but that's about it.

It's kind of how nobody in Star Trek ever mentions Jonathan Archer and the original Enterprise (or maybe the Federation prefers not to talk about him ).

[celedhring]

The biggest weirdness that such movies that are inserted into an existing series create is that nobody ever mentiones their heroic sacrifice ever again. I suppose Rogue Squadron might be named after them, but that's about it.

They do.



I guess we'll see the bothans in Rogue Two