Rogue One [Spoilers] Inconsistencies with the rest of the saga

I... just... wow...

 

A Chorus of Disapproval

Apparently this thread has run its course, I recommend to close it as the sarcastic recent posts suggest that there is no longer interest to discuss "inconsistencies" or "continuity errors" but rather to mock / harass people that bring these up. Thanx!

 

I am calm and I've seen worse given my experience in this and other message boards. But maybe you consider asking yourselves if a "Who cares?" attitude is attracting newbies to enlist and participate here at the JCF. I find this aforementioned attitude rather counter-productive, nothing less and nothing more.

 

Once a certain level of minutiae starts getting nitpicked, you need to expect a bit of eye rolling, IMHO. Keep in mind that the image insisting on strict consistency couldn't even get the name of Revenge of the Sith right.

 

Artoo-Dion

I fail to see why a spelling error taints the essential findings, but thank you for the heads-up.

 

One inconsistency that bugs me is that there weren't any shield effects on the space ships during the space battle. Every laser that hit a hull made huge sparks and a large plum of smoke as if it were vaporizing metal instead of a splintering laser bolt effect or a bright white flash.

 

Looks familiar....but not the same person even though they both are members of Vader's SD crew.

 

^ http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/st...rogue-one-cameo-boba-fett-lieutenant-sheckil/

Sorry, but Yoda comes to my mind: "Do or do not".

I originally thought we were supposedly looking at the same in-universe character.

 

I think it was meant to be the same person by Edwards as an easter egg for fans but Pablo Hidalgo totally b***sed it up, just like he did with the BlasTech A300 and BlasTech A310.

 

The more I see Rogue One the less inconsistencies I see. In fact I can't remember what I may have said earlier in this thread about them

I think my initial concern was over the plans being beamed to the ship and how this tied in with the originals dialogue, when RO actually showed a disc being passed to the ship instead and wether or not Vader saw that disc. But TBH I now think that RO was so well done and enjoy it so much that I don't even consider it to be an inconsistency.

 

This is another case where, when the credits and the Visual Guide conflict, the Visual Guide actually takes precedence:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shaef_Corssin

Corssin is Captain of the Devastator.

 

Not sure if this may have been suggested earlier in the thread - but it's possible that the plans WERE remotely "beamed" to the Tantive IV, and the troopers at the end of RO are just carrying a hard copy. That would also explain Vader's relative lack of urgency in getting hold of the hard copy in RO, as he knew that they would have to chase the ship down and capture it anyway.

Of course that kind of ruins the dramatic tension of the scene in RO, but it's one way of getting around it.

 

I don't think Vader's too interested in splitting hairs....we don't know if he's even aware of what the troops were carrying over to the Tantive. As far as he knows, the plans were "beamed" to the Tantive...even if the Tantive crew and audience know otherwise.

Vader's not perfect, after all:

"Your sad devotion to that ancient religion
has not helped you conjure up the
stolen data tapes, or given you
clairvoyance enough to find the
Rebel's hidden fort..."

 

Probably an inconsistency for those which believe both corvettes to be the same, not an inconsistency for those that believe both corvettes to be different Tantives.

 

Me too...! It has sooo much depth. What i thought I didn't like the first time I watched it (The planet hopping) turned out to be one of the best things about it as far as re-watchability...

 

I personally think Vader didn't know for sure what they were passing along. It could have just been the ship's log for all he knew. And the transmission that Jyn and Cassian sent out was not a targeted transmission. It was to any ships who could receive it. Tantive may have (even only partially) received the transmission from Scariff, and that could have been what Vader was referring to in ANH.

 

Rogue One handled this plotline really well IMO.

In the ANH crawl they say Rebels managed to steal the secret plans.
In ANH, Vader asks for the transmissions they intercepted.
Vader then says tear the ship apart to find the plans.

Nothing in Rogue One contradicts this dialogue.

 

themoth wrote

In the ANH crawl they say Rebels managed to steal the secret plans.
In ANH, Vader asks for the transmissions they intercepted.
Vader then says tear the ship apart to find the plans.

Nothing in Rogue One contradicts this dialogue.

I'll have to continue to disagree, as the original context in ANH was different:

IMPERIAL OFFICER The Death Star plans are not in the
main computer.

This tells us that the Imperials had expected to find the plans there which makes sense because they believed that the plans had been transmitted and stored in the main computer.

VADER Where are those transmissions you
intercepted? What have you done with those plans?

Since the plans are not in the main computer, Vader wants to know what physical shape the plans have taken, i.e. he is certain they were copied to a data carrier before the main computer banks containing the plans had been erased. Therefore

VADER Commander, tear this ship apart until
you've found those plans

A little while later, his search teams still haven't located the data carrier, so he now asks the princess

VADER I want to know
what happened to the plans they sent
you.

Leia doesn't provide this information either, it's Commander Praji who wraps it up:

Lord Vader, the battle station plans
are not aboard this ship!

Then where could these have gone?

And no transmissions were made.

So the Tantive IV didn't re-transmit the plans somewhere else and then erased their computer banks. It's very interesting that Praji mentions this option as if they'd seen something like this before...

An escape pod was jettisoned during the
fighting, but no life forms were
aboard.

That's the only explanation left where the plans could have gone, therefore Vader concludes

VADER She must have hidden the plans in
the escape pod.

Of course, another option might have been that Antilles or Leia had destroyed the plans / the incriminating evidence, but Vader would not have accepted that explanation unless he made certain that the plans really didn't go somewhere else, as it could have been a lie.