Books A/V STAR WARS: ROGUE #$^$%&ING ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

Pablo Hidalgo said she was rounding off and couldn't really remember how long it was between.

 

Next month it'll have been exactly 20 years since I've spoken to my father but if you asked me a couple years ago I'd probably have called it "20 years" then too.

Oh ****, was that too real?

 

That does make complete since in universe. I do wonder if they were planning that all along or noticed they got the dates wrong after the book was already shipped so they created that story to cover for it?

 

They use the planetary shield over Scarif:

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in the last shot of Rogue One to match the iconic blue glow around Tatooine:

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in the first shot of Ep. IV.

 

...that's amazing.

 

If the official answer is that she's estimating, that makes sense, although I wonder if the real reason was a miscommunication during printing. There have been a few of those. For example, there's a running discrepancy as to Jyn's age as of the movie; some sources say twenty-one, other's say twenty-two.

 

Agreed. It is very likely that a mistake was made (like you said) during the printing process and they invented the story of her estimating just to cover that up. No big deal and occasional small mistakes like that are bound to happen when people are trying to create a vast fictional universe. Only real discrepancies that should be made a big deal about are things such as this material says this character was here at this time but that this other material says the character was at this other location during that same time.....things like that.

As far as Jyn's age goes its hard to tell exactly rather she is 21 or 22 as Catalyst wasn't real clear when exactly Jyn was born during The Clone Wars. I always thought that she was 21 but then again I may be wrong as I may have missed a quick reference to when exactly the birth took place.

 

FWIW, the comic out today has an (omniscient) caption noting the events on Lah'mu happened '15 Years Ago'

 

The2ndQuest

Funny, as soon as I read your comment I went on youtube and found this in my suggested videos:

 

maybe, the further out the "focal point" at which the beams join is, the more powerful the central beam will be?

 

Ahh ok so it looks like they will be going with what the movie said instead of what the visual guide said from this point forward. Makes since as very few of the people who watched the movie will actually read the visual guide (even amongst those that choose to delve into the EU).

Will be interesting when that Rebel Rising book being released next month says that event ocurred.

 

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Does he speak more at the two meetings?

 

Star Destroyer Executrix

 

Is the adaptation six issues again? They usually seem so rushed compared to the movie that fitting in extra content, while welcome, seems tricky.

 

Six issues is pretty good. The average decompressed comic story arc is five or six issues. That's one trade paperback, give or take.

Shattered Empire, on the other hand, was a mere four issues and suffered for it, with an incomplete story, glossed over moments, and a lack of characterization.

A six-issue R1 re-telling should be just fine, as far as story-telling space goes.

 

Yeah, I always worry about pace with adaptations. I was really happy with the first issue, but the amount of extra content made it feel like the beginning of a much longer series.


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There's a very interesting discrepancy between the adult and junior novelizations of Rogue One.

In the adult novelization, a major story arc is Jyn dealing with her relationship with her father. She has a great deal of anger against him and has pretty much spent her entire life trying to cut herself off from the memories of him and doesn't want to see him ever again (as I recall, she basically feels like he rejected her in favor of Imperial service, clearly not understanding why he did what he did). So, as she goes on the mission and learns more details, she has to confront these issues as she re-evaluates what she's convinced herself of. It's some pretty powerful character stuff, added a lot to the movie when watching it with this in mind, and gives Jyn new layers of humanity.

The junior novelization doesn't touch that entirely. In fact, there's a throwaway line from one of Cassian's scenes where we're told that by just watching Jyn's eyes, you can tell that, despite the years of separation, she still loves her father very much.

Either scenario would work with what we see in the movie (in fact, when watching the movie for the first time, I actually assumed that Jyn didn't have hard feelings against him, like the jr. novel said). However, given that both novelizations are canon and the TFA adult/jr novelizations complimented each other so well, I'm kind of surprised that the books were allowed to be released despite claiming the exact opposite.

 

I have the adult novelization but am only about a chapter into it so far. But in regards to what you said anger and a feeling of betrayal towards a parent is still often a sign of love. Also it wouldn't be surprising they would try to downplay anger towards a parent a bit in a jr novel.

 

Well, Jyn being angry at her dad and loving him aren't mutually exclusive.