I had a different experience. Those characters were very familiar to me because I love the kind of fiction which deals with those in the shadows of a war. The sort of otherwise ne’er-do-wells and unremarkable folk who live in the shadows of the heroes and luminaries anointed in war.

Keep it up Disney! *thumbs up*

Yes! Exactly this. Exactly this why I loved this characters so much. Exactly why I loved this movie so much. No Chosen One bullshit. No destiny to fulfill. Just ordinary joes and janes trying to make the best of the crappy hand they’ve been dealt with. Fighting dearly for a cause they deem worthy. No superheroes.…

I was thinking just this morning about how great the ending is.

Maybe you’re not supposed to. How could you like Cassian? He’s totally unlikable. He’s also probably the most viscerally real character of the entire Star Wars movie library.

I didn’t think they were in love. I thought they were realizing the momentousness of their actions, and then that they were gonna die. My heart might flood with a kind of love for any person I had gone through such an experience with, male or female. Note that they looked like they were gonna kiss, but didn’t. They…

Oh for fuck’s sake. Can everyone in the comments stop complaining that the characters weren’t developed enough? They developed right before your fucking eyes into Rogue One. You people are never satisfied, are you?

Before I reply, I want to preface by saying that I liked Rogue one A LOT.

We’re never given any indication that he has any Force ability at all beyond maybe being able to low level sense some things around him. It could have been the Force protecting him as he walked across the field, or it could have been luck and traditionally poor Stormtrooper aim. Either is plausible, and what makes it…

This was largely the EU movie I’ve been imagining in my head ever since I first read the West End Games RPG books in the 80s. It showed that other side of a wider universe that had only really been hinted at, and that I’d really like to see further exploration of.

I felt the same way when it came time for Imwe to flip the switch. I thought that this was the moment when he would use the Force to turn the switch, the John Williams theme would swell, and we’d get an uplifting moment.

Instead we got something far more special and yet at the same time, unsettling. He just walks out…

I love this slant, agree whole heartedly. I think it’s a crucial theme in the movie, and I love it.

Lack of Wicdiv is inexcusable.

Agreed, I doth think the fanboys protest too much.

I’m actually a little tired already of the “hot take” that Tarkin was bad or uncanny CGI. Two of the people we went to see the movie with didn’t have any peripheral knowledge of Peter Cushing or the fact that he’s been dead for over 20 years. They had no idea who the rest of us were talking about when we were gushing…

Everyone I know who has no idea who Peter Cushing is or that he’s dead had no idea that it was CG. Whereas quite a few people found Leia unnerving (I keep hearing the term “doll”), but I honestly think they forget she was an anime-eyed, heavily-rouged, round-faced teenager in the first film. Honestly, both looked…

Wired mused, “if our math is right... their boycott [is] a protest against free speech.”

“I’m a Trump supporter”

That house Asian thing is particularly bullshit when Cho has put herself out there as a critic of Swinton getting the role. It’s like, “I speak for Asians when I say we’re upset at you.” “Can you explain why you think people are upset about this thing, so I can understand.” “This bitch thinks I speak for Asians, fuck…

Thank god they didn’t try to shoehorn in Threepio and Artoo. That would’ve just been jarring and seem like it didn’t fit in the film at all.
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