The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offs
Rogue One was the only decent star wars story in recent history. It was within the star wars universe but wasn’t a total rehash of the same Jedi story.
If they had done the Solo twins storyline with the Jedi academy they would have had all the YA books to pull ideas from that was original stories instead of the modernized remake.
They trashed everything from the extended universe. I’m super sad about the Skywalker family, especially Mara. I also really liked Jeter’s Boba Fett trilogy.
Rogue One is absolute trash, watch it again and tell me literally any redeeming quality it has. Just because they tell a “”““dark””“” story about war in a franchise that usually doesn’t deal with that doesn’t make it good, they also need to include things like character development and plot.
Edit: oh also it is a rehash, just of a single line – “Many Bothans died to bring us this information” – which still managed to convey more pathos and drama than the entire movie.
There were no Bothans in Rogue One. They had nothing to do with stealing the original Death Star plans. They were the ones responsible for bringing Intel about the Death Star 2 in RoTJ. Get your facts right.
It’s insane the amount of glazing that film gets despite a) being full of AI deepfake slop of dead actors b) endless nostalgia bait fan service c) no reason to exist (who the fuck wanted an entire film made to explain a tiny plot hole from the original film?) and d) literally every cookie cutter new character they introduce is killed off by the end of the film anyway after zero development. The only one anyone remembers is Andor, and only because he happened to get his own show years later.
The bothans line is from ROTJ so it’s about the second death star
It’s still obviously the inspiration. See the endless articles explaining this exact fact.
Rogue One is the only Star Wars movie I would actually call forgettable. I can’t tell you what happened other than the most basic premise (that they cribbed from Dark Forces), and that they all blew up at the end.
Oh, and those absolutely dogshit CGI actor replacements. That parts seared into my brain.