He does. Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger. But we haven’t seen hint of them outside of Star Wars Rebels and we don’t know their ultimate fate there.
Leia has met them too.
I’m half convinced they’re building to a retconn where when Obi-wan tells Yoda that “there is another”, they’re talking about Ezra Bridger. Of course, if the series ends with everybody dying, which isn’t quite ‘Disney’…
Has Wil Wheaton said what the little thing was he didn’t like about the movie?
[QUOTE=Wil Wheaton]
I give Rogue One 5 out of 5 lightsabers, and a 99%. It would get 100% if not for a single (very small) thing that I understand was put into the film on a reshoot.
[/QUOTE]
I’m guessing Vadar’s “don’t choke on your aspirations” pun. That felt out of place to me.
well… that’s what I would have said before watching Rogue One too. 
I think Lucasfilm read our posts and stole our ideas.
Why? The Empire surely had another archive elsewhere.
That would kind of invalidate the entire second half of the movie.
Not really. The plot doesn’t require that this be the only copy of the Death Star plans, it just has to be the only copy that the Rebels know the location of.
At any rate, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t THE Imperial archive, in the sense that it was the only data repository the Empire had in the entire galaxy. I think this one was specifically a special weapons archive, and a lot of the data in it was likely redundant somewhere else, depending on exactly how top secret the project is.
I just listened to the Kevin Smith review of the movie. In it, they mentioned that Donnie Yen’s character was mentioned as being something like a Keeper of the Whills, referencing the Journal of Whills from the original SW script. Does anyone remember this?
I don’t get this. Could you explain what you mean?
Anyway, I enjoyed it. The very beginning wasn’t done too well; we have to follow Jyn as a kid, and then skip time so we know Felicity Jones is her as an adult, only then there’s nothing to do with her yet so we go to another location, and then there’s yet another location, and by the way here’s what the Imperials are up to… it’s not difficult to follow along, but it is very obviously scene-setting.
I liked how disjointed the Rebels seemed. In the OT it’s very much “here is a singular army, only they’re small so that’s why they have trouble against the Empire”. Whereas here we get more of an impression of differing groups with differing goals who disagree with each other and probably joined the whole effort at different points. It’s an actual alliance of rebels.
I’d guess the Leia cameo. BTW, I bet my daughter the movie would end showing Leia making the SOS video and giving it to R2D2. Came so close but lost $5 over it!
One of the earliest titles Lucas had for what would become ANH was as “Legend of the Starkiller, from the Journal of the Whills”. I don’t think the word has ever been used in the film franchise before - it’s another little Easter egg, like the name of Starkiller Base in TFA.
A thought on the Imperial archives being destroyed - perhaps that explains why, in TFA, they had so much trouble finding a map to where Luke had gone?
Love that they brought in the Guardian (Shaman) of the Whills. Can’t get more old school than that.
Maybe? There’s definitely a point, shortly after he’s intrdouced, that Yen’s character is given a specific title/job description. I don’t remember the specific phrase used, though - I just mentally translated it into, “Jedi Temple Guard.”
They definitely used “Guardian (or Keeper) of the Whills”, since I remember wondering what the hell is Whills. Probably easier to notice with subtitles.
Just saw it tonight with my nearly-8-year-old son. I dug it, and he said he did too, but I can tell he’s still processing a lot of it. He’s a big SW fan, and knows as much about the characters and story as I do at this point, but this movie had a lot to soak in. I’m sure there were parts he didn’t understand, but his mind is like a steel trap, and he’ll start asking questions in the days ahead.
What surprises me is how many scenes from the trailers never made it into the movie. I fee like the scene with Krennic and Vader, where Krennic says "The power we are dealing with is immeasurable"didn’t make it; the scene where Jyn faces down the TIE fighter didn’t make it; the intro scene between K-2SO and Jyn didn’t make it; the scene where the ship is flying across the giant statue laying in the sand didn’t make it; the scene with Saw talking about Imperial flags reigning across the galaxy didn’t make it. For months, my son and I have been watching (studying, some might say, in the case of my son) these trailers, and a lot of the stuff just didn’t make it into the movie, which we both found odd.
I’m still processing how much I liked it. I did like it a lot, but it definitely has a different “feel” than anything else they’ve put out, including the cartoons. Right now I’d give it an 8.5/10. However, seeing Vader be a badass makes me want to go back and see it again tomorrow. At 41, Darth Vader still gives me goose bumps-- doesn’t matter if it’s OT, ROTS, cartoons or now this.
It’s strange seeing a movie from Disney/Lucasfilm that introduces a bunch of characters, never to see them again. In fact, I have a hard time believing these were all just one-off characters; I suspect we might see a young Cassian in Rebels at some point (he did mention he’s been fighting since he was six), or something else with Chirrut and Malbus at some point. They’re just too much into characters to let these people live and die here, never to be seen again.
I absolutely loved Chirrut as a character, even if I had no idea what his name was during the movie itself. Aside from Leia, we haven’t seen any Force-sensitives that haven’t followed the path of the Jedi. He might not have the power over it that Luke or Obi-Won have, but it works through him in a very interesting way. The interplay between him as the believer and Baze as the skeptic was great, and it built up perfectly to his final act of heroism. Th moment
As mantras go, “I am one with the Force and the Force is with me” is up there with “I shall not fear, fear is the mind-killer.”
There was also a page for “General Syndulla” at one point, I gather.
Here is the question, would’nt the blind force sensitive monks have been high on the kill list post Order LXVI?
I just rewatched the trailer, and almost none of the dialogue in it made it into the final cut. I wonder if they’re ever going to release the version before the reshoots? Not that I’m unhappy with what we got, I’m just curious what they changed. Although, I’m pretty sure “Empire flags reigning across the galaxy,” did end up in someone’s mouth. Was it Jyn, at the end when she’s trying to talk the Rebels into fighting? Probably originally meant to be a callback to something Saw said.
I don’t know if you’re into comic books or not, but you should really check out the Darth Vader comic that Marvel just wrapped up a few months ago. It’s set right after A New Hope, when Vader’s on the outs with the Emperor over that whole “Death Star” kerfuffle, and he’s trying to demonstrate his worth to Palpatine while hunting down the “mysterious” pilot responsible for destroying it. It’s amazingly good, and just stuffed full of Vader being a terrifying badass.
It might not mean anything (with the reshoots, the movie might originally have ended very differently) but apparently Felicity Jones’ contract was for two movies.
