The trailer looks pretty cool and George Lucas had nothing to do with it?

Because the trailer looks pretty cool?

Rosebud was Darth Vader's sled.

Kinda glad it IS that simple. CGI Mon Mothma would be kinda backsliding into Lucasville.

So there's this War…

That's distressing.

Vader does manage to cut R2's jets off, though, thus explaining why he never uses them again.

It's the Death Star's 'red alert' alarm from the original movie, oddly enough.

Her results are in the morgue!! She's off the case!

The space bees! The space bees!!

The Dark Side is quicker, easier, less imaginative. Anyone who falls to the Dark Side eventually builds a Death Star.

Pretty sure they chose "Ben" because it sounded cool when Harrison Ford shouts it in an echo chamber. Could you imagine that scene if he shouted "BAIL!" like he just got arrested and needed some cash? Ben might be a nickname, anyway. One he really hates and that only his dad uses.

I think the purpose of this film is the same purpose of all films: Finally finding a cure for cancer.

It's sadly true.

Whoah! Childhood flashbacks!

There's a very good book about all of this called "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe", actually. I highly recommend it if you're interested in learning exactly how the originals came out so well and the prequels so poorly.

They're real troopers, I tell ya.

Go Go Gadget Lightsaber!

Dialogue in Star Wars says the battle and plan transmission happened at the same time, hence why I assumed that's how it would end. And yeah, if it literally ended with the corvette running from the star destroyer, that would be cheesey. I more meant that the ending of Rogue One would set up the precise situation…

Hey now, I at least made a "No animals were harmed" joke out of it. I'm a nerd, but not mean-spirited :(