So the the short version of the story is this: I love Rogue One. I really, really love it. I dislike trying to rank the Star Wars films, because they have different voices and purposes, but if I had to do so, this one would rank very high indeed.
I'm really looking forward to tackling this in my "The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic" course
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I'm also really excited about the novelization that supposedly came out Tuesday.
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Violence disturbs me, and it may have even disturbed me more that this violence was not bloody. My grandson cheered the heroes on .....the heroes whose methods were questionable to me....and I think that was a very conscious choice of the film-makers......an honest choice, to be sure, but I have to be concerned, then, that my naive grandson is not seeing what I'm seeing......Does a righteous cause justify *any* means?
Oh, I know: it is only a movie. And yet.....it is not. It matters.
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In short, I think there's more hope in this film than in any in the franchise to date.
I especially appreciate how there's an extended metaphor across the Lost Stars and Catalyst novels, brought home with emphasis in Rogue One, between the creation of the bomb and the Death Star. The fact that Galen Erso, the Oppenheimer figure, finds a way to strike back at those who militarized his ( ... )
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