Rogue One The Official "List Your Complaints about Rogue One" Discussion Thread

That's pretty impressive that they had that much attention to detail. Honestly that's about 1000x more attention to continuity than we get from most post OT SW movies (hell - the OT movies themselves don't always pay attention to details like that).

 

Rogue One rules, this thread drools.

 

My biggest beef with RO is that it should have been about Wedge with that title. I know it's EU and not Disney, but there was no Corran Horn, Voort, Wedge or Hobbie... where was Tycho. RO should have been about Rogue Squadron. If they wanted to tell the story of the Death Star plans being stolen it should've included I5YQ and Lorn Pavan with Darth Maul chasing them. RO is nothing more than a war movie set in our galaxy far, far away... that being said- it is the best movie that Disney has produced for us

 

Darth Maul what now?

 

In Disney's canon... yes, I agree. However, I read what happened a long time ago. Disney had all of the EU to use and discarded my childhood lol

 

Not to worry. Your childhood is not biodegradable and can likely be recovered in a landfill somewhere. Or in the open ocean.

 

Wait, is my childhood canon?

 

Dammit!

 

I demand to be canonized!

 

I was shot out of a cannon as a child.

 

Who is Corran Horn in Kenobi?! And that sucks bigtime. If he is in Kenobi, it means he is 30 years too early or so.
So that's not Corran Horn from the EU. But a completely different person with the same name.
Unless he's a kid in the show? How did I miss that?

No it wouldn't have been. But we will never know, since DLFL decided to throw everything in the garbage and then go and pick up some tiny pieces.

Well that explains a lot

 

It explains everything.

 

We can all have different opinions on the subject (and many other subjects) but please let's not pretend that pre-Disney and post-Disney LFL are the same, when the head of the company is not George Lucas anymore. Also, people should really stop getting offended on behalf of a company.

Hypotheticals don't really matter much to me, I can only speak about what happened, not what would have happened. And I don't think George Lucas would have done exactly the same. In fact, he did not do that for 30 years and he had every chance to officially reset the canon

He instead came up with a diplomatic way to respect these stories and the fans that like them, without officially removing them from canon. He just said that their level of canon is lower than the movies and TCW. I don't remember anyone being mad about that. Instead, there are many people who are mad about labeling the entire old EU as Legends and resetting the whole thing. If you don't think there is a reason for that, I don't know what to say. It's easy to dismiss everyone else's opinion if it's not convenient. I will stop with the off topic now.

I am not sure what you want me to say about the video. I don't think anyone says that every single old EU story was good. And I certainly don't believe that either. However, after 2000 or so, there were major efforts from all the authors associated with the major projects of the time to unify and bind all the stories set in the EU together. Anyway, completely off topic, my apologies. I will get back on topic:

Rogue One is a great movie but has not aged as well as other Star Wars movies. 6 years later, I find it more enticing to go watch any of the 6 GL movies again, or random TCW episodes, than to watch Rogue One again. I haven't watched it in 2 years and I don't see myself watching it any time soon. Perhaps in the long run it might not be viewed as impressive as we all thought it was back in 2016. And that's not such a bad thing, but I guess we will see.

PS. Thanks for the info about Corran Horn! That is actually pretty nice, and I wouldn't expect anything less from Deborah Chow. I am happy they kept his mother's name too. Now, if we could see stories with Mirax Terrik, Jysella and Valin Horn in the future..... it would be great. But something tells me it's impossible now sadly.

 

It's not purely hypothetical, we have enough to get a pretty good idea what Lucas would have done. I'd say there are three possibilities:
1. Done exactly what post-Lucas LFL did and announced that the EU would be reset to comply with his new movies.
2. Made his movies and let publishing decide what to do about the EU, with publishing deciding to reset to line up with the new movies.
3. Made his movies and let publishing decide what to do about the EU, with publishing removing from canon whatever is in 100% conflict and coming up with ridiculous retcons to try to keep as much as possible.
Let's not try to pretend that each new Lucas movie didn't run roughshod over existing EU, requiring crazy retcons and decanonizing of things set up in the EU. The reason the canon stayed mostly in tact is that these movies took place in a timeline that had been cordoned off specifically to keep them from telling a story that would just get retold by the movies - and there were still significant conflicts. Diplomatic is a strong term for how Lucas treated the EU. He acknowledged that they were their own thing, and that they aren't his version of the story, but how it all worked was mostly up to others. There is NO WAY he would have worked his story to fit in with the EU.

 

This thread used to be the best!

 

Like Rogue One used to be the best?

(Insert Owen Lars face)

 

We're just trying to find things to talk about because "complaints about Rogue One" is such a limited topic.

 

Lock it up.