Spoiler-proof!
Last night, S and I finally saw Rogue One.
It was definitely darker in tone than the other Star Wars films, but I overall liked it. A few things stuck out, however
I'm not sure I've seen that much in the SW-verse where so many people (like, main characters in the story) died! All the main characters are dead, and most of the secondary ones as well.
I know that the Death Star has to have the first full-on use of the planet buster in Episode IV: A New Hope, but the explosions caused by just ONE reactor are big enough to kill the entire biosphere. There might be some deep down in the rocks bacteria still alive, but you have the cloud and ejecta reaching out into space. What's going to be left alive on the planet? I mean, sure the PHYSICAL planet will be there, but it's going to be very, very dead.
The opening of A New Hope now makes no sense. You can't claim to be on a diplomatic mission if you were AT THE FREAKING BATTLE and then the bad guys watched you run away from it. And why was that ship with Leia there at a battle? And why only transmit the plans to ONE ship?
The hammerhead corvette. Really? Just...no. Same with having the alignment controls for the communications antenna be on a catwalk a hundred stories up in the air, outside, exposed to the elements. Just no. (And why did Tarkin order an attack on an IMPERIAL base, one which appears to be an important repository?
The use of CGI to recreate Tarkin was mostly OK, but still uncanny valley. The use of the CGI Leia less so.
Darth Vader lives in Barad-dûr!
Nice to see the real lack of romantic tension between Jyn and Cassian. I mean, yeah, they held hands at the end but that struck me as as very human reaction to impending death. And there was what appeared to be genuine love between Chirrut and Baze.
I liked the little clip of C-3PO and R2-D2.
What did you all think?
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