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You do realize this takes place concurrent with Episode 4 right?
Me, I liked the helmets from Star Wars Legacy, but that would be going a bit too far into the future.
Yes, I know. Which is why I'm glad to see proper Stormie helmets. I, OTOH, thought Legacy was s%&# in just about every respect. Design, setting, plot, characters; everything.
I can never remember, was Leia heading towards Tatooine to recruit Obi-Wan, or was she just jumped by the Devastator as she passed by en route to Aldebaran? I seem to remember it's the later.Leia was on the way to find Obi-Wan. Why else would she be in the arse end of nowhere, and have her last desperate actions on the Tantive IV be to send a droid to find Obi-Wan to bring him out of retirement?
That doesn't make any sense. Why would a ship with such critical information take a detour to recruit Obi-Wan when you can send someone else to do that instead? I'd imagine the rebels would want those plans as quickly as possible.
I imagine that, since Leia was pretending to be on a diplomatic mission for the Senate (if I remember correctly) she had to take a twisted path to hold the cover story intact and possibly to better conceal the location of the hidden rebel base. Maybe once the empire started closing in she made course to Tattoine as a last resort type of thing.
Yes, I know. Which is why I'm glad to see proper Stormie helmets. I, OTOH, thought Legacy was s@+# in just about every respect. Design, setting, plot, characters; everythingYou do realize this takes place concurrent with Episode 4 right?
Me, I liked the helmets from Star Wars Legacy, but that would be going a bit too far into the future.
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Yes, I know. Which is why I'm glad to see proper Stormie helmets. I, OTOH, thought Legacy was s@+# in just about every respect. Design, setting, plot, characters; everythingYou do realize this takes place concurrent with Episode 4 right?
Me, I liked the helmets from Star Wars Legacy, but that would be going a bit too far into the future.
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Well, as long as you are not sending your kill squads I suppose Byorn should feel lucky...
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Going from the episode 4 opening crawl, it says the rebels got the plans during a battle, the first major victory against the empire. It also says Leia is the custodian of the plans. Looks like the battle will be the climax of the film. Curious of the battle was to get the plans or they just intercepted the plans by accident.
Actually, going back and looking at the stormie design, it's pretty good (i.e. close to the original design). Not as good as the original or g3 Clones, but not bad. I was just blinded by my disgust for the starfighter design and the characters.Yes, I know. Which is why I'm glad to see proper Stormie helmets. I, OTOH, thought Legacy was s@+# in just about every respect. Design, setting, plot, characters; everythingYou do realize this takes place concurrent with Episode 4 right?
Me, I liked the helmets from Star Wars Legacy, but that would be going a bit too far into the future.
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If you're talking about Legacy, I understand the starfighter design. As fo the characters, well...you're still off the x-mas card list.
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Is Leia going to appear in Rouge One? If so, is it known how they intend to pull that off? If she will not, how will they avoid showing her?
They pulled off a living Paul Walker that looked pretty convincing. They pulled off a 30 years younger Schwarzenegger in Terminator: Genisys. Carry Fisher is still alive. CGI facelifts anyone?
I truly cannot wait for this movie. I have wanted this since I was a kid, even more when the rogue squadron books and comics came out, even more when I had a computer that could RUN X WING VS TIE FIGHTER OMGGGGGGGGG.
There better be y wings in this movie.
Y wings were always such easy targets in TFW.
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They were pretty useful in destroying capital ships in Empire at War.
I've destroyed several Star Destroyers with no missiles or torps in my history of that game. Strafing runs at close range to destroy turrets, then take out the shield generator towers, then quickly disable the ship with ion cannons, then use lasers for the coup de grace.
Sigh. Looks like I'm going to need to fire up the gog version now.
The old Tie Fighter game? Y-Wings were easy kills because they were so slow, but they took a beating before they went down. Strong hull and shields on those wishbones.
I also liked flying them because you could link your lasers and ions for stronger shield penetration.
I welcome ties to try to shoot me down. I'll orient my ion cannons on you and fire back.
#xwingalliancedreams
I truly cannot wait for this movie. I have wanted this since I was a kid, even more when the rogue squadron books and comics came out, even more when I had a computer that could RUN X WING VS TIE FIGHTER OMGGGGGGGGG.
There better be y wings in this movie.
I hope to see some T-16's in it, maybe some womprats getting pasted as well
I hope to see some T-16's in it, maybe some womprats getting pasted as wellI truly cannot wait for this movie. I have wanted this since I was a kid, even more when the rogue squadron books and comics came out, even more when I had a computer that could RUN X WING VS TIE FIGHTER OMGGGGGGGGG.
There better be y wings in this movie.
I believe the ones I want them to make official, and which I want to see are Z-95's.
I'll admit, I'll probably see this movie... but I'm not excited about it at all.
Same basic principle with the prequels... I have a tough time getting excited about something when you already know the outcome. Besides the idea of 'the rebels that stole the death star plans' has at least been mentioned a couple times already... and it'll be a star wars without jedi...
Just not feeling this.
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I agree, not really feeling that this is a movie I ever felt the need to see. It's clever when a video game like Dark Forces uses this tidbit as a plot, but for a movie, especially an expanded universe for Star Wars, I'd have much much much rather them had movies that filled in the gaps between episode VI and VII since obviously we are missing a lot, or even better movies in roughly the same time as episode VII, but focusing on an original character. Do a few like that, and then have them tie in to episode IX and show up there.
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I'll admit, I'll probably see this movie... but I'm not excited about it at all.
Same basic principle with the prequels... I have a tough time getting excited about something when you already know the outcome. Besides the idea of 'the rebels that stole the death star plans' has at least been mentioned a couple times already... and it'll be a star wars without jedi...
Just not feeling this.
Honestly after seeing SW:FA i'm expecting Rouge One will be better. Besides last time they added a bunch of jedi it sucked.
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I knew they'd pull off the heist in Ocean's Eleven - still enjoyed it, though.
In some stories it's the how that's important.
They'd better kill many Bothans.
EDIT: Sorry, wrong Death Star.
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We know the plans get to Leia.
We don't know how or if the people involved survive.
I mean it's Disney, so they're not going to kill everyone, but still.
I've never found the "but we know how it's going to end" complaint persuasive. Of course we know how it's going to end. In broad general terms, just like we know how every action movie is going to end. The hero beats the bad guy and gets the girl. Even in the cliffhanger action scenes, the question is how the hero escapes, not whether or not he escapes.
It's the journey and the details that can be surprising, not the final outcome.
Depends on the story you are trying to tell. In the case of Rogue one, it's a prequel with entirely new characters whose only prequel elements are "death star plans get stolen". So yeah it's about as novel as you can get, and shouldn't suffer prequelitis.
In a movie like say Pan, or the Star Wars Prequel trilogy, that heavily revolve the backstory of the main characters and settings, there is a lot less novel elements to include potentially, or you remove the mystery around characters that made them interesting.
Well the prequels sucked, but there's definitely an interesting story in the fall of Anakin that could have been told - even knowing that it would happen.
You can provide answers to mysteries about characters without removing the interest, they just have to be good answers.
"A" Prequel could be fun. But a trilogy pushed it too far for me. There were questions that I wanted answered.. but not enough for three movies where we knew everyone in a cartoon series for 6 years having already SEEN them die... It just couldn't hold my interest. I'm pretty sure but 4 characters were going to die... and then to stretch it out? I think we only got three whole movies... because the original was arbitrarily titled episode IV. Had that not been there, they probably would have tried to set it up as one good movie.
30 years later?? 'HOw the rebels got the death star plans'... REALLY isn't even on my radar for questions I want answered. I haven't thought about it in years, and it doesn't really matter anymore.
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For a different set of reasons I am nearly as excited and hopeful for this movie as I was for The Force Awakens.