I love Rogue One. There was no way to force a happy ending for the main characters. They all had flaws and did bad things but were not bad people. One by one, you watch them succeed in what they needed to accomplish before dying as heroes. I knew going in that everyone dies but somehow still succeeds but i STILL love it.
Rogue one might actually be the best Star Wars movie. Maybe even better than TESB. It was them having the courage to correct the mistake the made with ROTS. Which was how can they expect to truly forgive Anakin without showing the most awful things he did? They feared that showing all the death would traumatic, be needed but it was necessary to show the strength of the Empire and "hope". Instead of killing the Younglings 2 masters should have swiped the younglings memory and went to face Anakin knowing they would lose but the sacrificing themselves to save the younglings to give hope. Another master sacrifices themselves so Jocasta Nu could keep the information on future younglings safe from the empire. One of the escaping younglings should have been Landon Calrissian and the next force sinsitive child to be found should have been Hans Solo. Would bring about how Lando was instrumental in bringing down both the empire and First Order.
@@williethomas5116 yeah sorry what are you on about? Rogue 1 is a great film but it’s not better than any of the originals, nor is it better than ROTS. Why would making han and Lando force sensitive be a good idea? That makes no sense and is just insulting
@@Blitz-ww8kh I think Rogue 1 was the 3rd best SW movie. I loved ROTS but put it fourth because I always felt slightly cheated by Anakin's turn to the dark side because of the bulk of his atrocities take place off camera. But I will say the 5 best SW movies are amongst the 10 greatest movies of all time. I love Rogue 1 because we get to see Vader in his ruthless glory like in the comics.For me The Empire Strikes back A New Hope Rogue 1 Revenge of the Sith Return of the Jedi I hope you didn't take my comments in a disrespectful manner. It was not my intention. Just excited to share my thought with another fan But Lando and Han being force sensitive makes sense to because as described above so many times they were in situations where they should have been killed but we're not. I think the reason being they had some force sensitivity. I think it is more insulting to watch a man run toward a group of trained soldiers not shooting then shoot twice and turn around again still not shooting run 50 ft without being shot. Especially if these soldiers are supposed to be feared by everyone in the galaxy for their precision. The force needing Lando (who keep in mind is the only one left alive) and Han to be the support for Luke and Leia.Am I saying they are Jedis? No!! That would mean they trained to understand what was inside them. Force sensitive well technically everyone is to some extent. Now how strong that connection innately is varies from person to person. Also, I would think it could explain why Ben was stronger than Luke. Inheriting force sensitivity from both sides. But my favorite scene is Ben/Obi Wan explaining the force to Luke and Han challenging if the force even existed or if their was a thing called destiny. Which struck me as odd for how many times he stepped in to save the day clearly destiny or the force seems to have had a purpose for him.
Rogue One showed how an out-of-sequence addition to a film series can support and further justify the things that already exist, instead of contradicting them. Truly an impressive exercise in honoring continuity, even down to small pieces of dialogue.. Darth Vader mentions the 'stolen data tapes', and we are shown Project Stardust being stored in--- an archive tower full of data tapes. But it was also referred to as an intercepted transmission... how could it be both?? Rogue One showed us, and made it look natural and effortless. And that's just one small example. Thanks for pointing out the great job the film did with this video!
@@blindphate Depends on the subjective nature of what one considers "cracking a joke." Vader's line may not have even been intended as a joke. Of course, that also depends on what one considers a joke. According to Google a joke is a "thing... someone says to cause amusement... a trick played... thing that is ridiculously inadequate." That type of neutral disposition lends the idea that a joke is always present during any specific scenario, whether it was intended or not. So you can and cannot consider it a joke at the same time, purely subjective. Now, for the part that may have been "out of character" is a very abstract concept. To be able to adjourn the parameters of a character's qualities, there would need to be a measuring system for every other reference point within and without the universe; which is extremely difficult, if not impossible. I am not saying that whatever he said is in character, it is just that I don't think it was out of character either. Often our statements are bias and nothing more, to which there is nothing wrong with that! Neutral conversation is strange to me.
@@alexvjuz882 The out of character part that I feel is that Vader is using a one-liner that is a double entendre in a situation were he isn't celebrating. I have not seen the animated series so I could be ignorant about some occasion but I have no memory of Vader or Anakin ever saying something similar. The line felt like a cheap MCU imitation, and even in the early MCU the one-liners were too cheap (and too many). The end result of Vader saying the line was a disruption of my suspended disbelief. In other words: it actively hindered my enjoyment of the movie in a major way. If Vader was establish as a quips guy, then it would have been an entirely different situation, but Vader's character is serious and emotional and Anakin's is making light of things in rough situations but serious in serious settings. None of them has ever used double entendre as far as I know, and none of them is using quips to show dominance.
This movie was a breath of fresh air to the Star Wars franchise. Interesting story, interesting characters. Amazing tie-in to canon. This movie was unlike the other newer Star Wars films that were poorly written and unlikable.
On the subject of Stormtrooper accuracy: On the Death Star, they WANTED the rebels to get away so they could be followed to their secret base. So, they shot to miss to put on a good showing. On Bespen, some covering fire was used to discourage pursuit by Luke, but again he was not to be harmed, on Lord Vader's orders. Later, the chaos of the panicked evacuation allowed the Rebels to escape. On Endor, in an environment with LOTS of cover, the Ewoks had a numerical advantage, and were more skilled in fighting in that specific environment.. Meanwhile, onboard the Tantive IV and on Hoth, the Stormtroopers decimated the Rebels. This tells me that, when they are trying, they are actually very good at what they do. Even if they do prioritize the ones shooting at them over the ones accomplishing their mission...
@@etheangel2220 tell us you've never watched a new hope without telling us you never watched a new hope. Tarkin flat out says to Vader "this better work Darth, we're taking a big risk letting them go." It was their PLAN. Why else did they only send a handful of fighters to attack the fleeing millennium falcon? Because destruction was not their goal. They wanted them to think they escaped. The death star can hold tens of thousands of fighters and support craft, why only send a few when they could have sent dozens or hundreds? Because they wanted them to lead them to the rebel base.
@@flynncarter229 Exactly! I don't think they weren't TRYING to hit them; Vader wanted them alive. First to lead them to the Rebel Base in ANH, then to lure Luke in ESB, and presumably to interrogate Leia and Chewie to lead him to the rest of the Rebels. "And these blast points... too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise." "They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape." "I want them alive. No disintegrations." "Calrissian, take the Princess and the Wookie to my ship."
Artoo doesn't trick Luke into turning off his projector. He tricks Luke into removing his restraining bolt which keeps him from running away from his current owner(s). This is just another example of how crafty Artoo is.
@achmahnsch It's a common spelling that is used in comics and novels. The spelled out version is Artoo Detoo. C-3PO is also often referred to as Threepio in the comics and novels. It's a little rarer to get a See-Threepio name spelled out, but it does happen every so often.
I've said it before and so did Leia, the Stormtroopers let them escape on the death star. They weren't sure who the pilot was, and having just placed a tracker on board they needed to follow them to the base. Vader only knew Obi-Wan didn't fly the ship, because he hated flying. It's pretty much outright said in the movie. Tho literally everyone seems to miss it.
@@WhenTheSunCorrupts which sure, could be bias in universe, history written by the Victor. But the rebels lost a lot of troops compared to stormtroopers on screen.
How well did the stormtroopers shoot at the beginning of A New Hope? How well did the stormtroopers shoot on Hoth? And just ask Jawas how well the stormtroopers can shoot!
Easily one of the best, if not the best Star Wars movie that has been put together. It really seems like in production they asked 'what would the fans like?' and then gave the answers: Compelling story. Tie up questions A New Hope raised. Epic space battle. Epic ground struggle. Makes the Rebellion actually seem like a Rebellion, essentially terrorising the empire and conducting guerrilla warfare. Vader showing us why lore represents him as such an angry bad-ass.
I got to meet Spencer who plays Darth Vader in Rouge one at a Fanboy convention a few years back. He said that the Vader scene was actually a last min decision. Said they really did think what would the fans want to see...........they got that right!!
Rogue One and Episode IV are my favorite. They are masterfully crafted. They both evoke an immense emotional response and the overwhelming feeling of victory and strength I felt as a 7 year old after seeing Ep IV were justified after the absolute devastation and overwhelming sadness I felt from the deaths of the characters in Rogue One. If Star Wars was only ever just these two movies, I would still think it is the greatest story ever told.
If that was the case then Rogue One would really make no sense. It's so completely different than ANH that you need the context of the other 5 movies to give it meaning. As just a one-off it doesn't make much sense and has no ending.
Actually Tarkin was informed that a young imperial officer had found the flaw on the Death Star and he chose to ignore the issue thinking that it wouldn’t effect them. So ultimately it was also Tarkin’s arrogance and belief in their superiority that brought them down.
It's not a flaw. You need an exhaust port. It was an impossible shot that only a space wizard could make, and all the space wizards were supposed to be dead... plot fail
the other mistake was not providing tighter shielding to prevent one-man fighters even getting close to the Death Star. We see they fixed THAT mistake in ROTJ concerning Death Star II, when Lando says "The shield is still up" (because some fighters fly into the still-active shield) before Ackbar's "Its a trap!".
One little observation about "this time". Evidently Vader has had incidents involving Princess Leia before, because in between the two usages you mentioned in your video, when Vader confronts Leia, he says "Don't act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time", implying she has used that excuse previously in order to evade being discovered as a rebel.
You see in Star Wars Rebels when Leia has an appearance that she uses the mercy mission excuse to try and smuggle arms to the rebels on Lothal which presumably wasn't the only time she did something like this
Of all the Star Wars films, I would put Rogue One at #3, behind Empire and A New Hope. But it is an excellent movie that, as this video shows, ties up many loose ends. Don't forget, we now know the reason Skywalker received the designation, "Red 5."
Yes. I still quite enjoy Rogue One. Yes, I'll watch again this weekend! Thanks for the video. New content on Rogue One is always a "fix" for me as it captures the original essence of the Original Trilogy. To me, there are now 4 Original movies. Thanks again. Cheers!
Rogue one is an absolute masterclass in making modern Star Wars it manages to tell an original story with new characters but adds a whole new level of depth and emotion to the most beloved of the films while also fixing the series most infamous plot hole
I genuinely difficult time parsing my feelings about modern star wars, as so much of it has been disappointing to me, but I love Rogue One so much. I really think it's in my top 5
Disney hit their one and only home run with the Star Wars movies with Rogue One and then a solid hit with the first two seasons of the Mandalorian. Everything else has been a raging dumpster fire. I will never forgive them for squandering the opportunity to have Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca together again onscreen in The Force Awakens.
A New Hope was Luke as well as the sacrifices the rebellion made. As we saw in the death star run, the rebels couldn't make the shot. It took force sensitive Luke to hit the exhaust. He also represents a New Hope for the Jedi.
After a few years have passed since Rogue One came out, I can honestly say I enjoy it more now than I did when it first came out. It was very well done. Same for Solo, although I'll give Rogue One the edge since it is a whole new story.
@@jumpingjjonah8088 Agree - Solo was a hoot to watch. Friends and I loved it. Sure, it didn't really add much to the overall story, but it was just plain fun.
@@amitypredator9385 I have to admit that as someone who, pre-Mando didn't bother with non-cinema releases, Darth Maul's sudden introduction in the final reel kind of came as something of an underwhelming surprise to me, but there was a lot of good stuff in that movie too. The legend of how Hanny met Chewie, that Imperial Officer getting vaporised, Donald Glover's Lando. It wasn't ESB but it wasn't Caravan of Courage either.
The thing that always stuck with me was that in ANH the rebels don’t have a Rogue designation. But by the time of TESB they do. You figure that the rebels adopted it to honor the memory of Rogue One.
Correction: “The Rogues were originally a smaller flight group known as Rogue Flight, formed by the Alliance's Commander Arhul Narra in 0 ABY from the remnants of Red Squadron following the Battle of Yavin. Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles led a core group of pilots on various missions, and the flight's members were a part of the Rogue Group that flew against the Galactic Empire in 3 ABY's Battle of Hoth. Antilles expanded the Rogues into a full twelve-person squadron after Hoth was evacuated, and they fought in the Battle of Endor one year later as Red Squadron, where Antilles helped destroy the Empire's Death Star II battlestation.” - Rogue Squadron Wookieepedia
Well maybe it’s not “official” canon. But I like to think of it as my personal head canon. One way or another Rogue One should be remembered. They made the ultimate sacrifice. That’s as heroic as you can get.
@@maxgremln but ask yourself this: if everybody died at the battle who is around to remember them? The rogue one team were full of nobodies and nobody even knew who they were. Imagine between the fifty-seven years that Ripley was in hypersleep that nobody knew what happened to the Nostromo. nobody knew that the ship blew up only that it disappeared, vanished without a trace and it wasn't until Ripley was found then she told her story. (ALIEN Isolation also shows a massive coverup being done as the mystery of the destruction of the Nostromo is what kicks off the game reveals that the ship's black box had been found but was deleted) So, if there were no survivors who is even around to tell people about rogue one in the first place? There is no way Luke would think to name Rogue Squadron as a homage to jin, well, because nobody actually used the rogue one callsign during the scarf battle. The call sign was only used by the shuttle to lift off from Yavin and there is no way that anybody would connect the callsign of rogue one of a departing shuttle from Yavin to a group of unknowns attacking a Imp base that once on the ground never once said they were rogue one. Continuity Error.
@@peterkrochmalni673 I can understand no one remembering Chirrut, Baze, K2 and Bodhi. But Andor dedicated his life to the Rebellion. Hell he’s getting his own Disney+ series. And Jin (daughter of an Imperial officer) made an impassioned speech about fighting the Empire in front of the Alliance leadership including Mon Mothma. I don’t think anyone will forget that. Also, Admiral Raddus referred to them as Rogue One a couple times during the battle of Scarif. So if a fleet admiral refers to your unit as Rogue One, I think that counts as an official designation. And some of the Rebel fleet did survive including Red Leader, Gold leader and Princess Leia for that matter. And the Wookieepedia page I saw says Rogue group was named after Rogue One.
I really enjoyed Rogue One, but this video has made me love it so much more. I really appreciated seeing the way that those details enhance the entire series of events that make up the original trilogy, and put so much more context around the Rebellion, and the true state of the war at that point. Thanks for a great piece of work.
Rogue One is one of my favorite Star Wars movies. Also, how lucky was it that Leia programmed R2D2 to jettison from the ship to Tatooine, where he was bought at auction by Luke Skywalker, who brought him to Obi-Wan Kenobi where R2D2 played the message asking for help - and also by chance, Luke and Leia are long-lost twin siblings.
I would have moved the whole "thermal exhaust port plot hole" being filled thing up closer to the top of the list, if not even to #1. It's certainly the first thing that comes to my mind when imagining what Rogue One did to change A New Hope. (But, that's just me talking. ✌)
Rogue One also sets the precedent (also reinforced in the Rebels series) that there are Rebel sympathizing double agents within the Imperial military actively or indirectly sabotaging things, For example: The order to let an escape pod with no life forms pass by instead of just destroying it when you're on a mission to hunt down stolen data. What at first watch looks like terrible incompetence or at least negligence could have been a deliberate act of Rebellion!
@@Jdporte27, you have the right to like bad movies. Rogue one is just the least bad of the Disney movies. It is mediocre while the others, especially the sequels, are awful.
There was nothing "missing" from ANH, though. None of this HAD to be told for ANH to work in the slightest. I love Rogue One and think they did a great job filling in things that didn't need to be filled in, much better than Solo, which I also actually enjoyed.
@@grendel824 100% agree. In fact, I'd go farther and say the all Disney "Star Wars" is really nothing more than speculative fan-fiction. I enjoyed "Rogue One" too, but consider it just someone's version of events that occurred prior to "Star Wars".
I still love it. It has even slipped into the number two slot for me behind ESB despite the questionable tentacle scene and despite the epic lightsaber duel in ROTS.
Rogue one is up there with Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith if you ask me. What a film. What a climax. What a "beginning." I'm gonna go watch it now, bye.
You have no idea how amazing it was to read this. I’ve been banging this drum for over a decade. Empire and sith are my two favorite Star Wars movies and rogue one is now up there too. Revenge of the sith, rogue one, and a new hope form a perfect sub trilogy imo lol
@@MasterBetty69 No one cares about Avatar anymore, it was impressive visually but that is about it. ROTS went from underrated (like the rest of the prequels) to overrated very quickly. It's pretty good after Anakin turns but before that it feels messy and weak
A friend of mine doesn’t like Rogue One, his reasoning is that, “You spend all this time getting to know these characters, only for all of them to die at the end!” My thoughts were that, that was the point. This movie shows just how far the rebel alliance would have to go and the price they’d have to pay in order to achieve victory over the empire. It makes Star Wars more of a war movie than just a sci-fi popcorn action flick. Which it still very much is, but it now adds in the gritty ugliness of war. While, yeah you hate to watch these characters die, but knowing what they died for and that it wasn’t all for nothing drives home that point. I absolutely loved it by far my favorite scene in the movie is the Darth Vader hallway fight. Like I’ve said before and like others have also said, I really wish the whole Mustafar scene had been left in the cutting room floor, then added in later as a deleted scene. That way only the hallway scene would’ve been Vader’s cameo, it’d been way more effective in my opinion, but that’s just my opinion.
You can still have that and still have one or two survivors of the team. It’s not like having Jin and Caspian survive would have any bearing in the Battle of Yavin since neither of them are Starfighter pilots. And since they are battered up so badly they be spending the whole of A New Hope in hospital. ‘Cause maybe you never heard of M*A*S*H Having them all die at the end comes off as a major cop out.
I remember way back watching a video where a guy predicted who would die, and jokingly said at the end they all would. I was like "there's no way they'd kill all the main characters". Boy was I wrong
I think the film was stronger because of the characters all dying. Not only did it show how high a risk they were taking and how immense the stakes were, but it gave us something unusual in Star Wars: a stand-alone movie. If you think about it, only Rogue One and A New Hope work as a stand-alone film (except maybe Solo, ugh). Sure, the context comes from the bigger picture of the overall story, but not having Rogue One be an 'episode' meant that the filmmakers could do whatever they wanted with these characters. (Not to mention that since A New Hope now functions as the 'sequel' to Rogue One, they couldn't leave notable Rebel heroes alive that didn't appear in the originals). I think the story was more dramatic this way, and made the sacrifice they made for the Rebellion all the more poignant.
I don't know, I always thought that the opening crawl made it pretty clear that "A New Hope" referred to the Death Star plans. It flat-out says that the Rebels won their first real victory against the Empire, and in doing so stole the plans, and that the plans are the key to destroying the Death Star and restoring peace to the galaxy. Sounds pretty hopeful to me. Even the original 1977 crawl, lacking the episode number and subtitle, says the same thing.
Luke is clearly the new hope. He's the one that through the Force destroys the Death Star. Rogue One is a nice film but it's saying that the Death Star was sabotaged is ridiculous. A sabotage that doesn't work until someone makes an impossible shot isn't a sabotage at all. Save for that it could go on destroying planet after planet. Even the Imperials studying the attack in ANH say there is a danger and does Tarkin want to abandon ship? This literally makes no sense as they don't know about the "sabotage" so they are just going by the attack plan thinking the Death Star is 100% functional with no sabotage. If they knew about any sabotage then they wouldn't have attacked anything until they fixed it.
@@ariesroc You do realize that the only 2 people who knew about the sabotage are dead before Tarkin even found out or even suspected? Do you think Tarkin would have suspected sabotage after Rogue One? Probably not. No one is going to check the Death Star for sabotage 24/7 for no reason. How is it so hard to believe that they only found out about the sabotage during the Battle of Yavin? When they analyze the Rebel attack. Hell, the officer that tells Tarkin to evacuate literally says they analyzed the attack and noticed a danger which was the sabotage.
@@thephoenixxm4160 Completely unbelievable because Tarkin wasn't notified about any sabotage but about the Rebel attack plan which they analyzed and realized it was about targeting the shaft that goes straight to the reactor! He didn't say anything about sabotage which as you yourself pointed out they couldn't have known about anyway and would be unbelievable since they already destroyed Alderaan plus the blasts that wiped out Jedha City and the Scarif base. What kind of a sabotage is one that doesn't sabotage anything? BTW who sabotaged the reactors on the droid control ship in TPM and Death Star II in ROTJ? This is what makes R1's sabotage just plain silly because then reactors must be sabotaged to be destroyed. They should have stuck to Erso just telling the Rebels about the Death Star and where to get the plans to find a weakness.
@@ariesroc Galen's work was not sabotage. Sabotage is the act of damaging a machine so that it cannot fulfill it's function. He designed a weakness that could be exploited by others. I guess if you stretch it, you could think of it as "sabotage by proxy." lol
Great video! Covered some good connections and insights between the films that makes me have a deeper appreciation for Rogue One and it’s importance in the overall story. 👍
I just love Felicity Jones, wouldn't mind seeing more Jyn, I'm sure she has done plenty before getting arrested. Of course I still don't know how Saw lost his feet becoming poor little tink tink lol 😝 Perhaps Vader should've gone down to get the plans himself, but he doesn't like sand, so he told that Commander to see to it. Too bad Bail Organa made it home, not that we ever saw him crying out in terror and suddenly silenced. . . . Carrie Fisher thought the CGI Leia was deleted footage she forgot about, if you can't trust Carrie Fisher on digital Leia, who can you trust. Not sure how Peter Cushing would feel about Tarkin, but his family were okay with it
@@badhareday7509 I cheered & teared up at that! And when Admiral Raddus calls for squadron leaders to sign in: Blue Leader, we knew; but then we hear & see Gold Leader as the Y-wings bob into view! Followed immediately by Red Leader! 🥲 ...and knowing that as great as are the sacrifices in the Battle of Scarif, these two veterans (and their squadrons) will follow suit in the Yavin/Death Star battle...
@@motoman2WH3 Yes! 👍The grunts used to be background cannon fodder to make the Jedi look good.😁But in Rogue One they dished out as much as they took and showed us who really carried the rebellion. And the sheer scale of the engagement, with actual tactics being used. Take out the shield generator, use ion torpedoes - I've always wanted to see something like that.
The ending of Rogue One, although the whole movie is about HOW the Death Star plans are stolen, ties into the beginning of A New Hope pretty flawlessly
1. I like to think because the Stormtroopers in “Star Wars” were ordered to let the prisoners escape and were fanatics, they were willing to die for the Empire rather than disobey orders and kill Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie aboard the Death Star. 2. The odds of hitting the Death Star kill shot were “1 in a million”, and without Force guided torpedoes it probably doesn’t get destroyed (plus Chewbacca’s well aimed shot on the TIE fighter to breakup Vader’s formation). 3. “Rogue One” leaves me with one major question: How did Vader know the Tantive IV was going to Tatooine? In “Star Wars”, Vader said he intercepted communications between the ship and the Rebellion, but it sure doesn’t seem like Leia had time to inform anyone of her plans to detour to Tatooine, before jumping to hyperspace in “Rogue One”. From “The Empire Strikes Back” tracking the trajectory of a ship, when it jumps to hyperspace is damn near impossible. So how did Vader know to intercept the Tantive IV at Tatooine? I don’t think Leia went straight to Tatooine, as the video suggests. I think she tried going to at least one other planet, but the Empire put all points bulletin out to any space port to impound that ship. Leia had no choice but to inform the Rebellion of her change in plans and seek out Obi Wan Kenobi. 4. From the novelization of the OT, Obi Wan reveals that he had an agreement with Bail that if Leia’s involvement in the Rebellion became too dangerous, she should seek out Obi Wan on Tatooine. I know conventional wisdom is the Death Star’s a dumb waste of resources, but the number of things that had to go right for the first Death Star to be destroyed is mind boggling. In “Rogue One”, while Vader was leisurely killing the rebels he trapped, only one person heard the guy with the Death Star plans cries for help and turned to try to open the door. If Vader was a step faster he could’ve killed the guy with the plans before he handed them off. In “Star Wars”, the gunner who didn’t shoot the escape pod R2 and 3PO were on because no life forms were aboard set the stage for some fortuitous events for the Rebellion. Luke being too lazy to put R2’s restraining bolt back on, after seeing part of Leia’s message is one example. The red R2 unit Owen originally bought having a bad motivator is another. So many little events had to go right to get the plans to the Rebellion, the odds were really stacked in the Empire’s favor with the Death Star being able to control systems through terror.
The Death Star is a dumb waste of resources. If you can build a ship that can travel faster than light, then you can destroy planets...easily. At lightspeed, even a fucking Volvo hitting Earth would be like an ostrich egg shot by a 9mm. . That said, while planet-killers are NOT effective military weapons...they would, ironically, be very useful for mining in uninhabited systems. Pick a planet, blow it apart, then go in and get the good bits out of the remains. All the really good stuff is deep down inside, after all. Much faster and simpler than trying to dig at it.
also in empire strikes back, boba fett tracks the falcon to bespin with very little effort. hell he basically just eyeballs it. one of the many reasons book of boba fett really nukes the character of boba fett.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 That's why the light speed of star wars doesn't work that way. Which is why the sequel trilogy was dumb to include a hyperspace ramming maneuver. Kinetic hyperspace missiles would be the main weapon in Starwars, not lasers. Even then, the Death star was a bad idea. It makes them less flexible. Yeah they can attack planets, but that doesn't stop resistance cells that span all the planets. It keeps the governments in line. But they could have just as easily parked 4 Star Destroyers around every planet with the amount of resources they spent building the Death Star.
I mostly agree… however, as for the inaccuracy of the Stormtroopers, this can be explained by orders from the imperial command, who wanted the Millennium Falcon to escape and lead the Empire to the Rebel base.
3:24 I had the Star Wars vinyl record when I was a little kid and listened to it enough times that I memorized it. In this scene you speak of the line is not 'There will be no one to stop us this time' but instead 'There will be no one missing'. So, I suggest that the line is much more likely a product of them trying different lines there in the film and deciding on the one that sounded best instead of any greater meaning.
Krenic didn't know about the flaw, he only knew they wanted something from the archives, not even specifically what they wanted. I just rewatched it today.
Hmm, I'm starting to think that Rogue One might be the perfect entry point for newer/younger viewers to get into Star Wars. New enough to not be campy but does an amazing job of setting up the events of Episode 4 to where the viewer probably won't care any more that they're watching a 45 year old children's movie.
“Don’t act so surprised, your highness, you weren’t on any Mercy Mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies.” Newer/younger viewer after watching rogue one tilts their head in confusion - “Daddy, what does Darth Vader mean by that?”
Now they can wonder why Vader doesn't come right out and tell Leia that he actually saw her ship leaving the battle above Scarif. Anachronistic editing paradox?
Interesting addition of the Force for the aim of the Stormtroopers. I’ve heard that Leia’s line of letting them off so easy so they could track also explains missing shots. Though ofc they did not need everyone to survive for the tracking to work But, still.
“Don’t act so surprised, your highness, you weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies.” - retconned by rogue one since it never happened. “Until this battle station is fully operational we are vulnerable.” - “The final check out is completed, we are now operational.” - “I would like you to join me in a ceremony that would make this battle station operational. In a way, you have determined the choice of a planet that would be destroyed first.” - retconned by rogue one now since it shows an already fully operational Death Star. “I only hope that when the data is analyzed a weakness can be found.” - retconned by rogue one since Jin had informed the entirety of the Rebel Alliance that there is a weakness.
Actually Rogue One didn't change the thing with Tarkin, the Empire had found out about the weak spot during ANH apparently. The tech engineer reported it to her CO, who was one of the officers who we see in the Battle of Yavin. He goes around the station, presumably on his way to Tarkin (the station is moon-sized after all), and I believe he does speak to Vader in the battle, or maybe it is a different one. Either way, he arrives in time to tell Tarkin to evacuate, but Tarkin says no. Mere moments later and officer and a mouse droid hurry to the command deck, the officer wishing to show the droid that the rebels who killed his friend (one of the troopers who boards the Falcon to check on the scanning crew) as well as all the rest of them will pay for all of the people they have been killing. The door opens in time for them to see Tarkin's iconic pose and then the station is destroyed after the gunner at the controls has a quiet breakdown (listen for someone shouting 'standby alert' to Tarkin next time you watch ANH).
An officer walked up to Tarkin and told him they THINK there might be a reason for the attack based on what they were attacking. They had no clue if it was legit or not. However a full blown attack like that meant they Rebels thought it was legit so the officer had to take it seriously. But Tarkin didn't see that level of info. He just got a single line of warning in the movie and that was it.
@@randallsanchez3161 They knew it was legit because they ran a diagnostic and found the weakness, and Darth Vader and Tarkin were already suspicious of Galen Erso.
Episode IV: A New Hope is still the best. The reason is a bit unfair to the other movies. When IV came out it changed the movie world and most significantly Science Fiction movies forever. The special effects were like nothing seen before. The characters were very well done, for science fiction movies. It had space battles that were filled with tension and exhilaration. Star Wars broke so many molds when it came out. It was mesmerizing to a young child and amazing to a teenager. People went back to see the movie multiple times. Unfortunately, no matter how good the sequels and prequels are, there can only be one "break-out" movie stat started it all.
In other words the intrigue and mystery that the original film offered has been ruined by people who need everything spoon fed to them - once the curtain has been lifted it's all just Ho-Hum
About the claim that stormtroopers can't the side of a barn. Well, remember when Vader let our heroes escape the Death Star because he put a tracker on the Falcon? The entire pursuit was set up. This was realized by Leia. Most people overlook that little detail.
To this day, I refer to the Original as "Star Wars." No episode number, no subtitle. It is the OG, without which none of the others--sequels, prequels, sequel trilogy, series, comics, books--would exist.
The gun he was manning was either an ion gun or grapple. He didn't want to waste a shot on what might have been a decoy when another escape pod flies off while he's engaged with the first. Why a non-lethal gun meant to capture escape pods rather than destroy them? "Commander, tear this ship apart until you find the plans. And bring me the prisoners-- _I want them alive!"_ --Darth Vader You do _not_ go against orders when Vader's the one giving them.
Ah, #2, The Stormtroopers intentionally allowed them to escape in order to track them. Tarkin's line to Vader, Leia's line to Han, the actual Death Star having tracked and followed them to Yavin 4, Can't find the rebellion's HQ and stamp them out once and for all if you allow your Soldiers to just kill them during their escape. Which again; even the 1977 movie addresses, several times. The storm troopers didn't miss their targets. They deliberately aimed to avoid hitting.
The original reason for the Stormtroopers missing their shots in A New Hope was because they were ordered not to fire killing shots so that the empire could track the Millennium Falcon. Though I do love the video, good stuff
That wouldn't explain the other films though... It seems that the Force *did* cause them to miss certain people because the force was trying to restore a balance which had been tilted into the Dark's favor.
@@d0nKsTaH Disney took the "Stormtroopers can't hit anything" joke and ran with it in the new films and shows. Maybe the force having an effect on their aim has an effect on troopers in the new canon - but that doesn't explain little gags like in the Mandalorian with the two stormtroopers failing horribly at target practice. My comment still stands, as I said the *original reason - not whatever new canon Disney has concocted. I'm not guessing or theorizing, it's straight up said in A New Hope that they were allowed to escape in order to be tracked. At any rate, sorry if this was long winded. May the force be with you.
@@WhenTheSunCorrupts I mean just look at them when they aren’t fighting main characters. They are shown to be very deadly soldiers. It’s just Star Wars has the largest example of plot armor ever.
When Luke, Han, Obi-Wan, and the droids were on the Death Star, Darth Vader ordered a tracking device installed on the Millennium Falcon to track them back to the Rebel headquarters when they escaped. That plan worked. We saw it work. But it would not have worked if they had all been shot dead by storm-troopers, or re=captured. Darth Vader deliberately let them escape so that he could follow them. That having been his plan, nothing could be more natural than that Vader had ordered the storm troopers on the Death Star to herd the heroes towards their ship and let them escape, and not on any account to shoot them. So the fact that stormtroopers on the Death Star did not shoot the heroes there is not evidence that they were bad shots. Rather, it is a clue as to what was occurring in the plot.
Rouge One is my favorite piece of Star Wars content since Return of the Jedi. I may even like it more then Return of the Jedi, but that movie being the culmination of the trilogy gives it an edge. I was so worried about it when I heard about the re-shoots, but watching it in theaters made me feel like I was alive well before I was born, witnessing the magic that people felt watching the original Star Wars in 1977.
Rogue One + Star Wars IV is without question my very favorite dual-film arc of all time. Further, I also tack on SW5: ESB in this group, as the full package of the greatest multi-film story arc in Sci-Fi film history. For me it's simple - SW IV rocked me to my core, as I grew up with that one as a kid. I was there in theaters in 1977; it literally changed the world overnight. Yet Rogue One was done so damn well, it always makes me cry. Every single time. I watch this entire film arc at least once per year. I prefer re-re-rewatching these over watching new films I've never even seen. For me, it's therapy. I know, I'm pretty pathetic.
I absolutely love 💘 this movie 🎥😍 I put it up there with the original trilogy. I thought Solo was great as well, but it's because I read all the books, so they were brought to life in a way. My opinion lol
The best of them all, good performances by a talented cast, a tight script and a film I rewatch regularly. The only thing I don't understand is why they think Cassion Andor should get his own series, rather than Jin. Felicity Jones is simply superb. Compare and contrast, Solo. Well named a film to watch once. (if you have to)
I fell asleep during R1 but that last scene! OMFG. I absolutely LOVE how Vader chilled out AFTER Episode IV. He was 100x more chilling once he stopped yelling
I'll tell you what, after Rogue One premiered, I watched A New Hope again and it elicited an emotional response like it never had before. Rogue One put all of the original trilogy into sharp and clear perspective. Great movie. I saw it in the theater the second weekend after it opened. It was so much to take in, that as I exited the theater, I turned around a bought a second ticket, another bucket of popcorn and large drink and watched it again.
10- Actually it leaves the problem of how did Vader track and locate them, let alone arrive before them when the Star Destroyer is not faster than the CR90 in hyperspace? 9- the initial weakness made more sense: there was one vent out of many that was a problem and it was missed -it's one of THOUSANDS of 2 meter holes on a construct the size of a MOON... easy to miss. Compare that to "we killed this guy's family and now he's willing to oversee our most important project! Yay! Let's not check his work!" Sorry, Rogue One makes it make less sense. 7- R2 tricked Luke into removing the restraining bolt so he could leave, not to turn off the projector. 6- Tarkin was told there was a weakness. So Rogue One doesn't change it at all. Tarkin was arrogant and believed he could not lose. Factoring in 9, Rogue One actually makes it make less sense. "There is a weakness" "Impossible. This is our ultimate construct" Vs "There is a weakness" "Impossible. The man who we pressed into service after killing his family in front of him says this is his best work, and clearly that would have no double meaning" 5- The Rebels were fighting initially against an Empire willing to kill and destroy everything. Plenty of reason and needed no "improving" (not that any was given, all this did, even by the video's commentary, was show they were about to give up recently) 4- the Rebel fleet was supposed to be small because they were rebels in hiding, not a huge army. It made sense before. 3- Fans have debated for years over how bad stormtrooper aim is, given Tarkin admits that the Falcon and Leia were allowed to escape. 2- The Death Stars destruction held plenty of meaning already, and that meaning didn't change. So again, what was added, wasn't needed, and wasn't some improvement or anything. 1- Personally I was sick of hearing the word "hope" by the end of Rogue One.
Yes. Some valid points of criticism here. My hats off to you. Also i'd like to add, that you would double check plans after they are finished by the man, who you forced to work with you.
No disrespect, but i think i just found a Rogue One hater. Which in my opinion makes no sense since i prefer it to some of the OT and Prequels and all of the sequals.
Lol I get it, you don't like the movie. Now let's rip into Empire. Why do the ships leaving hoth choose to fly straight towards the waiting star destroyers? Why do the empire waste time sending imperial walkers when they have tie bombers and can even destroy the shield generator and/or base from space. Why doesn't the millennium falcons sensors detect Slave 1, why doesn't lando and luke get sucked out the top of the falcon when you see it pull away from cloud city at about mach 1 then a scene of them lowering into the falcon... Oh yeah a belt clip. Why can't vader use the force to stop the falcon taking off, why can't they force pull each others light sabers about and switch them on and off for a laugh...
@@robertward5047 Well if you pay attention and dig some lore from Expanded Universe - you will find answers for all of that questions, most of which was considered canon by our grandmaster Lukas. So, yeah. Try it out.)
Out of the entire Disney Star Wars canon, Rogue One was the only movie which I truly liked and can't nitpick about. Overall, Rogue One is my second favourite Star Wars movie after Revenge Of The Sith.
I literaly cried in the theater ... was the closer I've ever felt to my childhood watching a movie since the 80's. So much love, so much respect in the making of it ... How could Disney make this masterpiece and also the piece of trash that were the sequels?
Different directors and also they weren't making a new story in a new timeline, they simply filled in some gaps in the story between ROTS and ANH and added to the OT.
I honestly think rogue one is the best star wars film of the lot, it put the last trilogy to shame, it wasn't full of shouting, whooping and political correctness. It was a story worth telling and was told in a mature but action packed way. JJ Abrams and that other idiot could have learned a lot from this. The protagonist were fallible, not so perfect like Ray that it made her unrelatable and unlikable..I've watched rogue one a few times and it's still enjoyable, just like the original films. I don't even want to watch the rise of Skywalker for a second time or ever again. The same for the other 2. Shame. rogue one, well written, well acted and special affects to rival the original. It's everything a star wars film should be and everything the last trilogy wasn't
Don't put all the blame on the directors. They can only override so much of the writing for the sake of 'direction/directing'. Directors tend to get either too much or too little credit. Yes they bring the composition of the movie together, direct the scenes and make them run until they're right. (Or as right as budget/patience will allow *Coughs in Throne room garbage show*) Directors can do great things to make bad writing better, or terrible things to make good writing worse. But you can only go so far one way or the other before you're locked in by the script. Finality is down to the writers and produces, not the directors. Unless the director is also a writer or actor for the movie. But that's an exception, not a rule
A New Hope came out right after I graduated high school. I remember friends telling me I absolutely had to see this movie, and right fully so. When, a few years later, I saw a preview for Empire, I was simply enthralled. The movie itself was, I think, successful and amazing because it has a strong sense of elegance. Having now seen all of the movies, I would rank Rogue One as my third favorite, for the multitude of reasons already cited in this video as well as in the comments. I do disagree, a bit, with the notion that Ep. IV is called a New Hope because of the reasons stated. The review suggests that the new hope was not Luke. But in Empire, when Luke takes off to save Han and Leia, Obi Wan says, "that boy was our last hope." He reiterates this in ROTJ when he says, "then the Emperor has already won; you were our last hope." So, a New Hope can certainly still be Luke himself.
Rogue One became my third favorite Star Wars movie (after A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back). After watching this content I love it even more. I was unaware of how many plot holes it filled in the original Star Wars movie.
Even though people would hate it, I would love to see a remastered version of A NEW HOPE. It would be so cool to add that next level of emotions to the scenes, and really make it feel like there is something at stake, rather then the lighthearted feel of the original, just my thoughts. Plus you could have ewan mcgregor play obi wan and the final fight between him and Vader could carry so much more weight. It would be a legendary remake I think
I love Rogue One. There was no way to force a happy ending for the main characters. They all had flaws and did bad things but were not bad people. One by one, you watch them succeed in what they needed to accomplish before dying as heroes. I knew going in that everyone dies but somehow still succeeds but i STILL love it.
Rogue one might actually be the best Star Wars movie. Maybe even better than TESB. It was them having the courage to correct the mistake the made with ROTS. Which was how can they expect to truly forgive Anakin without showing the most awful things he did? They feared that showing all the death would traumatic, be needed but it was necessary to show the strength of the Empire and "hope". Instead of killing the Younglings 2 masters should have swiped the younglings memory and went to face Anakin knowing they would lose but the sacrificing themselves to save the younglings to give hope. Another master sacrifices themselves so Jocasta Nu could keep the information on future younglings safe from the empire. One of the escaping younglings should have been Landon Calrissian and the next force sinsitive child to be found should have been Hans Solo. Would bring about how Lando was instrumental in bringing down both the empire and First Order.
@@williethomas5116 yeah sorry what are you on about?
Rogue 1 is a great film but it’s not better than any of the originals, nor is it better than ROTS.
Why would making han and Lando force sensitive be a good idea? That makes no sense and is just insulting
@@Blitz-ww8kh I think Rogue 1 was the 3rd best SW movie. I loved ROTS but put it fourth because I always felt slightly cheated by Anakin's turn to the dark side because of the bulk of his atrocities take place off camera. But I will say the 5 best SW movies are amongst the 10 greatest movies of all time. I love Rogue 1 because we get to see Vader in his ruthless glory like in the comics.For me
The Empire Strikes back
A New Hope
Rogue 1
Revenge of the Sith
Return of the Jedi
I hope you didn't take my comments in a disrespectful manner. It was not my intention. Just excited to share my thought with another fan
But Lando and Han being force sensitive makes sense to because as described above so many times they were in situations where they should have been killed but we're not. I think the reason being they had some force sensitivity. I think it is more insulting to watch a man run toward a group of trained soldiers not shooting then shoot twice and turn around again still not shooting run 50 ft without being shot. Especially if these soldiers are supposed to be feared by everyone in the galaxy for their precision. The force needing Lando (who keep in mind is the only one left alive) and Han to be the support for Luke and Leia.Am I saying they are Jedis? No!! That would mean they trained to understand what was inside them. Force sensitive well technically everyone is to some extent. Now how strong that connection innately is varies from person to person. Also, I would think it could explain why Ben was stronger than Luke. Inheriting force sensitivity from both sides.
But my favorite scene is Ben/Obi Wan explaining the force to Luke and Han challenging if the force even existed or if their was a thing called destiny. Which struck me as odd for how many times he stepped in to save the day clearly destiny or the force seems to have had a purpose for him.
@@Blitz-ww8kh to say anybody can't think anything is better than any OT movie is nostalgia driven.
Ep 4 and 5 are solid best two. R1 is a strong contender for the third best IMO.
Rogue One showed how an out-of-sequence addition to a film series can support and further justify the things that already exist, instead of contradicting them. Truly an impressive exercise in honoring continuity, even down to small pieces of dialogue.. Darth Vader mentions the 'stolen data tapes', and we are shown Project Stardust being stored in--- an archive tower full of data tapes. But it was also referred to as an intercepted transmission... how could it be both?? Rogue One showed us, and made it look natural and effortless. And that's just one small example. Thanks for pointing out the great job the film did with this video!
Wow I completely forgot about that. Rogue One certainly had a tall task in trying to bridge a lot of things together in a sensible way.
It is by far the best Star Wars prequel for this very reason.
It's a great film. My only complaint is that one scene where Vader cracks a joke. Felt that was out of character.
@@blindphate Depends on the subjective nature of what one considers "cracking a joke." Vader's line may not have even been intended as a joke. Of course, that also depends on what one considers a joke. According to Google a joke is a "thing... someone says to cause amusement... a trick played... thing that is ridiculously inadequate."
That type of neutral disposition lends the idea that a joke is always present during any specific scenario, whether it was intended or not. So you can and cannot consider it a joke at the same time, purely subjective. Now, for the part that may have been "out of character" is a very abstract concept. To be able to adjourn the parameters of a character's qualities, there would need to be a measuring system for every other reference point within and without the universe; which is extremely difficult, if not impossible. I am not saying that whatever he said is in character, it is just that I don't think it was out of character either. Often our statements are bias and nothing more, to which there is nothing wrong with that!
Neutral conversation is strange to me.
@@alexvjuz882 The out of character part that I feel is that Vader is using a one-liner that is a double entendre in a situation were he isn't celebrating.
I have not seen the animated series so I could be ignorant about some occasion but I have no memory of Vader or Anakin ever saying something similar. The line felt like a cheap MCU imitation, and even in the early MCU the one-liners were too cheap (and too many).
The end result of Vader saying the line was a disruption of my suspended disbelief. In other words: it actively hindered my enjoyment of the movie in a major way. If Vader was establish as a quips guy, then it would have been an entirely different situation, but Vader's character is serious and emotional and Anakin's is making light of things in rough situations but serious in serious settings. None of them has ever used double entendre as far as I know, and none of them is using quips to show dominance.
I remember sitting through the credits hoping for a post credit scene. Then I realized the first Star Wars movie is the post credit scene.
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This movie was a breath of fresh air to the Star Wars franchise. Interesting story, interesting characters. Amazing tie-in to canon. This movie was unlike the other newer Star Wars films that were poorly written and unlikable.
On the subject of Stormtrooper accuracy:
On the Death Star, they WANTED the rebels to get away so they could be followed to their secret base. So, they shot to miss to put on a good showing.
On Bespen, some covering fire was used to discourage pursuit by Luke, but again he was not to be harmed, on Lord Vader's orders. Later, the chaos of the panicked evacuation allowed the Rebels to escape.
On Endor, in an environment with LOTS of cover, the Ewoks had a numerical advantage, and were more skilled in fighting in that specific environment..
Meanwhile, onboard the Tantive IV and on Hoth, the Stormtroopers decimated the Rebels. This tells me that, when they are trying, they are actually very good at what they do. Even if they do prioritize the ones shooting at them over the ones accomplishing their mission...
Thats the biggest reach I have ever seen!🤣🤣
@@etheangel2220 Not nearly as far as you might think, dude.
@@etheangel2220 tell us you've never watched a new hope without telling us you never watched a new hope. Tarkin flat out says to Vader "this better work Darth, we're taking a big risk letting them go." It was their PLAN.
Why else did they only send a handful of fighters to attack the fleeing millennium falcon? Because destruction was not their goal. They wanted them to think they escaped. The death star can hold tens of thousands of fighters and support craft, why only send a few when they could have sent dozens or hundreds? Because they wanted them to lead them to the rebel base.
@@flynncarter229
Exactly! I don't think they weren't TRYING to hit them; Vader wanted them alive. First to lead them to the Rebel Base in ANH, then to lure Luke in ESB, and presumably to interrogate Leia and Chewie to lead him to the rest of the Rebels.
"And these blast points... too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise."
"They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape."
"I want them alive. No disintegrations."
"Calrissian, take the Princess and the Wookie to my ship."
@@flynncarter229 probably because he's a little short for a storm trooper. Han doesn't have any such trouble.
Artoo doesn't trick Luke into turning off his projector. He tricks Luke into removing his restraining bolt which keeps him from running away from his current owner(s). This is just another example of how crafty Artoo is.
Always suspected that R2 had the force.
A droid with the force and no one knew it....
Artoo has to be the funniest way of calling R2D2 I have ever seen
@achmahnsch It's a common spelling that is used in comics and novels. The spelled out version is Artoo Detoo. C-3PO is also often referred to as Threepio in the comics and novels. It's a little rarer to get a See-Threepio name spelled out, but it does happen every so often.
@@MrDrokkul really? Huh I guess it’s never too late to learn something. Well Artoo is still the funniest name for R2D2 I have seen
I've said it before and so did Leia, the Stormtroopers let them escape on the death star. They weren't sure who the pilot was, and having just placed a tracker on board they needed to follow them to the base.
Vader only knew Obi-Wan didn't fly the ship, because he hated flying.
It's pretty much outright said in the movie. Tho literally everyone seems to miss it.
Even Disney seemed to, as they proceeded to make movies exaggerating the ill-made joke that stormtroopers can't hit anything.
@@WhenTheSunCorrupts which sure, could be bias in universe, history written by the Victor. But the rebels lost a lot of troops compared to stormtroopers on screen.
How well did the stormtroopers shoot at the beginning of A New Hope? How well did the stormtroopers shoot on Hoth? And just ask Jawas how well the stormtroopers can shoot!
@@RandyMichigan and ask uncle Owen lmao
Leia's intuition was her Jedi Superpower. Rewatch the series thinking she's just as powerful as Rey, just no obvious powers.
Easily one of the best, if not the best Star Wars movie that has been put together.
It really seems like in production they asked 'what would the fans like?' and then gave the answers:
Compelling story.
Tie up questions A New Hope raised.
Epic space battle.
Epic ground struggle.
Makes the Rebellion actually seem like a Rebellion, essentially terrorising the empire and conducting guerrilla warfare.
Vader showing us why lore represents him as such an angry bad-ass.
It's the best Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi.
I got to meet Spencer who plays Darth Vader in Rouge one at a Fanboy convention a few years back. He said that the Vader scene was actually a last min decision. Said they really did think what would the fans want to see...........they got that right!!
@@tennesseecopperhead7874 It's not a Red One!
@@DMSProduktions Red one? I have no idea what you are talking about
@@tennesseecopperhead7874 READ what you wrote dude! Rouge = Red! (But rogues often can be red! )
Rogue One and Episode IV are my favorite. They are masterfully crafted. They both evoke an immense emotional response and the overwhelming feeling of victory and strength I felt as a 7 year old after seeing Ep IV were justified after the absolute devastation and overwhelming sadness I felt from the deaths of the characters in Rogue One. If Star Wars was only ever just these two movies, I would still think it is the greatest story ever told.
If that was the case then Rogue One would really make no sense. It's so completely different than ANH that you need the context of the other 5 movies to give it meaning. As just a one-off it doesn't make much sense and has no ending.
Rogue One, followed by A New Hope are the best two films you can watch in a row
@@ariesroc agreed. Zero character development and didn't care for anybody at the end.
@@glazersout4272 TPM all the way through to ROTJ are the best six films you can watch in a row.
@@glazersout4272watchin clone wars and prequels will always be my favorite combination
Great movie- one of the very few things produced by Disney that felt like real Star Wars.
Actually Tarkin was informed that a young imperial officer had found the flaw on the Death Star and he chose to ignore the issue thinking that it wouldn’t effect them. So ultimately it was also Tarkin’s arrogance and belief in their superiority that brought them down.
The soldier said that there was a potencial risk. Not that there was a literal design flaw that would destroy them
THIS
It's not a flaw. You need an exhaust port. It was an impossible shot that only a space wizard could make, and all the space wizards were supposed to be dead... plot fail
Krennic would've been sooooo happy to know that.
the other mistake was not providing tighter shielding to prevent one-man fighters even getting close to the Death Star. We see they fixed THAT mistake in ROTJ concerning Death Star II, when Lando says "The shield is still up" (because some fighters fly into the still-active shield) before Ackbar's "Its a trap!".
One little observation about "this time". Evidently Vader has had incidents involving Princess Leia before, because in between the two usages you mentioned in your video, when Vader confronts Leia, he says "Don't act so surprised, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time", implying she has used that excuse previously in order to evade being discovered as a rebel.
Exactly because darth Vader was leia father and he wiped her poo poo of her bum when he changed her diapers
Not to mention, his anger makes so much more sense.
You see in Star Wars Rebels when Leia has an appearance that she uses the mercy mission excuse to try and smuggle arms to the rebels on Lothal which presumably wasn't the only time she did something like this
Rogue one was an amazing film. Everything about it was purposeful. It's one of my favorites.
The most amazing thing about it, is how much it stands out in comparison to that fubar (fu* up beyond any repair) "new" trilogy
Do you guys think rogue one would have been a good film without vader? I don't think so.
Of all the Star Wars films, I would put Rogue One at #3, behind Empire and A New Hope. But it is an excellent movie that, as this video shows, ties up many loose ends.
Don't forget, we now know the reason Skywalker received the designation, "Red 5."
Yes. I still quite enjoy Rogue One. Yes, I'll watch again this weekend!
Thanks for the video.
New content on Rogue One is always a "fix" for me as it captures the original essence of the Original Trilogy. To me, there are now 4 Original movies.
Thanks again. Cheers!
Rogue One is outstanding! Great video. I always watch it before rewatching A new Hope
Rogue one is an absolute masterclass in making modern Star Wars it manages to tell an original story with new characters but adds a whole new level of depth and emotion to the most beloved of the films while also fixing the series most infamous plot hole
I genuinely difficult time parsing my feelings about modern star wars, as so much of it has been disappointing to me, but I love Rogue One so much. I really think it's in my top 5
Disney hit their one and only home run with the Star Wars movies with Rogue One and then a solid hit with the first two seasons of the Mandalorian. Everything else has been a raging dumpster fire.
I will never forgive them for squandering the opportunity to have Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewbacca together again onscreen in The Force Awakens.
@@peepachu Tbf Andor Series is also kinda fire but yea, they really fucked up on the new trilogy like holy shit lmao
A New Hope was Luke as well as the sacrifices the rebellion made. As we saw in the death star run, the rebels couldn't make the shot. It took force sensitive Luke to hit the exhaust. He also represents a New Hope for the Jedi.
After a few years have passed since Rogue One came out, I can honestly say I enjoy it more now than I did when it first came out. It was very well done. Same for Solo, although I'll give Rogue One the edge since it is a whole new story.
Love Rogue One, and am with you on Solo too. I don't know what people wanted from Solo, but I thought it was a solid entertaining movie.
@@jumpingjjonah8088 Agree - Solo was a hoot to watch. Friends and I loved it. Sure, it didn't really add much to the overall story, but it was just plain fun.
Solo was a bore, and Shoehorning Maul at the end didn't help ot.
@@amitypredator9385 I have to admit that as someone who, pre-Mando didn't bother with non-cinema releases, Darth Maul's sudden introduction in the final reel kind of came as something of an underwhelming surprise to me, but there was a lot of good stuff in that movie too. The legend of how Hanny met Chewie, that Imperial Officer getting vaporised, Donald Glover's Lando. It wasn't ESB but it wasn't Caravan of Courage either.
Rogue One made the opening crawl of the original move come alive!
Even though I had a pretty good idea how Rogue One was going end, it was still an amazing movie.
I was thinking all along "they need to kill all characters, but they can't kill all caracters!", then they did die and I cried. Hahahahaha.
The four-hour 'Rogue Cut' combining both films is great viewing.
I remember Rogue One catching tons of flak upon release. Since the first time i saw it, it was top 3 for me. Glad it gets it due nowadays
I remember a lifelong OT "purist" (much older guy) who came back saying it was easily the best SW film made in the last two decades, perhaps ever.
The thing that always stuck with me was that in ANH the rebels don’t have a Rogue designation. But by the time of TESB they do. You figure that the rebels adopted it to honor the memory of Rogue One.
Luke Skywalker formed and named Rogue Squadron. No connection.
Correction: “The Rogues were originally a smaller flight group known as Rogue Flight, formed by the Alliance's Commander Arhul Narra in 0 ABY from the remnants of Red Squadron following the Battle of Yavin. Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles led a core group of pilots on various missions, and the flight's members were a part of the Rogue Group that flew against the Galactic Empire in 3 ABY's Battle of Hoth. Antilles expanded the Rogues into a full twelve-person squadron after Hoth was evacuated, and they fought in the Battle of Endor one year later as Red Squadron, where Antilles helped destroy the Empire's Death Star II battlestation.” - Rogue Squadron Wookieepedia
Well maybe it’s not “official” canon. But I like to think of it as my personal head canon. One way or another Rogue One should be remembered. They made the ultimate sacrifice. That’s as heroic as you can get.
@@maxgremln but ask yourself this: if everybody died at the battle who is around to remember them?
The rogue one team were full of nobodies and nobody even knew who they were.
Imagine between the fifty-seven years that Ripley was in hypersleep that nobody knew what happened to the Nostromo. nobody knew that the ship blew up only that it disappeared, vanished without a trace and it wasn't until Ripley was found then she told her story. (ALIEN Isolation also shows a massive coverup being done as the mystery of the destruction of the Nostromo is what kicks off the game reveals that the ship's black box had been found but was deleted)
So, if there were no survivors who is even around to tell people about rogue one in the first place?
There is no way Luke would think to name Rogue Squadron as a homage to jin, well, because nobody actually used the rogue one callsign during the scarf battle. The call sign was only used by the shuttle to lift off from Yavin and there is no way that anybody would connect the callsign of rogue one of a departing shuttle from Yavin to a group of unknowns attacking a Imp base that once on the ground never once said they were rogue one. Continuity Error.
@@peterkrochmalni673 I can understand no one remembering Chirrut, Baze, K2 and Bodhi. But Andor dedicated his life to the Rebellion. Hell he’s getting his own Disney+ series. And Jin (daughter of an Imperial officer) made an impassioned speech about fighting the Empire in front of the Alliance leadership including Mon Mothma. I don’t think anyone will forget that.
Also, Admiral Raddus referred to them as Rogue One a couple times during the battle of Scarif. So if a fleet admiral refers to your unit as Rogue One, I think that counts as an official designation. And some of the Rebel fleet did survive including Red Leader, Gold leader and Princess Leia for that matter.
And the Wookieepedia page I saw says Rogue group was named after Rogue One.
I really enjoyed Rogue One, but this video has made me love it so much more. I really appreciated seeing the way that those details enhance the entire series of events that make up the original trilogy, and put so much more context around the Rebellion, and the true state of the war at that point. Thanks for a great piece of work.
Rogue One is one of my favorite Star Wars movies. Also, how lucky was it that Leia programmed R2D2 to jettison from the ship to Tatooine, where he was bought at auction by Luke Skywalker, who brought him to Obi-Wan Kenobi where R2D2 played the message asking for help - and also by chance, Luke and Leia are long-lost twin siblings.
I would have moved the whole "thermal exhaust port plot hole" being filled thing up closer to the top of the list, if not even to #1.
It's certainly the first thing that comes to my mind when imagining what Rogue One did to change A New Hope.
(But, that's just me talking. ✌)
Rogue One also sets the precedent (also reinforced in the Rebels series) that there are Rebel sympathizing double agents within the Imperial military actively or indirectly sabotaging things,
For example: The order to let an escape pod with no life forms pass by instead of just destroying it when you're on a mission to hunt down stolen data. What at first watch looks like terrible incompetence or at least negligence could have been a deliberate act of Rebellion!
I love thinking of A New Hope as the sequel to Rogue One. The saga could just be those two films and I would be ok with it.
I totally agree with that in the same way that The Return of the Jedi is the sequel to The Empire Strikes Back.
Heresy and shame.
@@Jdporte27, you have the right to like bad movies. Rogue one is just the least bad of the Disney movies. It is mediocre while the others, especially the sequels, are awful.
.... After seeing "A New Hope" back in 1977 Rogue One filled in the all important missing gaps for almost 39 years later!
There was nothing "missing" from ANH, though. None of this HAD to be told for ANH to work in the slightest. I love Rogue One and think they did a great job filling in things that didn't need to be filled in, much better than Solo, which I also actually enjoyed.
@@grendel824 100% agree. In fact, I'd go farther and say the all Disney "Star Wars" is really nothing more than speculative fan-fiction. I enjoyed "Rogue One" too, but consider it just someone's version of events that occurred prior to "Star Wars".
I still love it. It has even slipped into the number two slot for me behind ESB despite the questionable tentacle scene and despite the epic lightsaber duel in ROTS.
Rogue one is up there with Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith if you ask me. What a film. What a climax. What a "beginning." I'm gonna go watch it now, bye.
You have no idea how amazing it was to read this. I’ve been banging this drum for over a decade. Empire and sith are my two favorite Star Wars movies and rogue one is now up there too. Revenge of the sith, rogue one, and a new hope form a perfect sub trilogy imo lol
revenge of the sith is the most over rated movie ever made
@@DIZMANofDX28 *Avatar enters the chat*
@@MasterBetty69 No one cares about Avatar anymore, it was impressive visually but that is about it. ROTS went from underrated (like the rest of the prequels) to overrated very quickly. It's pretty good after Anakin turns but before that it feels messy and weak
A friend of mine doesn’t like Rogue One, his reasoning is that, “You spend all this time getting to know these characters, only for all of them to die at the end!” My thoughts were that, that was the point. This movie shows just how far the rebel alliance would have to go and the price they’d have to pay in order to achieve victory over the empire. It makes Star Wars more of a war movie than just a sci-fi popcorn action flick. Which it still very much is, but it now adds in the gritty ugliness of war. While, yeah you hate to watch these characters die, but knowing what they died for and that it wasn’t all for nothing drives home that point. I absolutely loved it by far my favorite scene in the movie is the Darth Vader hallway fight. Like I’ve said before and like others have also said, I really wish the whole Mustafar scene had been left in the cutting room floor, then added in later as a deleted scene. That way only the hallway scene would’ve been Vader’s cameo, it’d been way more effective in my opinion, but that’s just my opinion.
You can still have that and still have one or two survivors of the team. It’s not like having Jin and Caspian survive would have any bearing in the Battle of Yavin since neither of them are Starfighter pilots. And since they are battered up so badly they be spending the whole of A New Hope in hospital. ‘Cause maybe you never heard of M*A*S*H
Having them all die at the end comes off as a major cop out.
@@jesterprince4949 but Ryan did survive.
I remember way back watching a video where a guy predicted who would die, and jokingly said at the end they all would. I was like "there's no way they'd kill all the main characters". Boy was I wrong
Your friend has really bad movie criticisms lol
I think the film was stronger because of the characters all dying. Not only did it show how high a risk they were taking and how immense the stakes were, but it gave us something unusual in Star Wars: a stand-alone movie. If you think about it, only Rogue One and A New Hope work as a stand-alone film (except maybe Solo, ugh). Sure, the context comes from the bigger picture of the overall story, but not having Rogue One be an 'episode' meant that the filmmakers could do whatever they wanted with these characters. (Not to mention that since A New Hope now functions as the 'sequel' to Rogue One, they couldn't leave notable Rebel heroes alive that didn't appear in the originals). I think the story was more dramatic this way, and made the sacrifice they made for the Rebellion all the more poignant.
I don't know, I always thought that the opening crawl made it pretty clear that "A New Hope" referred to the Death Star plans. It flat-out says that the Rebels won their first real victory against the Empire, and in doing so stole the plans, and that the plans are the key to destroying the Death Star and restoring peace to the galaxy. Sounds pretty hopeful to me. Even the original 1977 crawl, lacking the episode number and subtitle, says the same thing.
Luke is clearly the new hope. He's the one that through the Force destroys the Death Star. Rogue One is a nice film but it's saying that the Death Star was sabotaged is ridiculous. A sabotage that doesn't work until someone makes an impossible shot isn't a sabotage at all. Save for that it could go on destroying planet after planet. Even the Imperials studying the attack in ANH say there is a danger and does Tarkin want to abandon ship? This literally makes no sense as they don't know about the "sabotage" so they are just going by the attack plan thinking the Death Star is 100% functional with no sabotage. If they knew about any sabotage then they wouldn't have attacked anything until they fixed it.
@@ariesroc You do realize that the only 2 people who knew about the sabotage are dead before Tarkin even found out or even suspected? Do you think Tarkin would have suspected sabotage after Rogue One? Probably not. No one is going to check the Death Star for sabotage 24/7 for no reason. How is it so hard to believe that they only found out about the sabotage during the Battle of Yavin? When they analyze the Rebel attack. Hell, the officer that tells Tarkin to evacuate literally says they analyzed the attack and noticed a danger which was the sabotage.
@@thephoenixxm4160 Completely unbelievable because Tarkin wasn't notified about any sabotage but about the Rebel attack plan which they analyzed and realized it was about targeting the shaft that goes straight to the reactor! He didn't say anything about sabotage which as you yourself pointed out they couldn't have known about anyway and would be unbelievable since they already destroyed Alderaan plus the blasts that wiped out Jedha City and the Scarif base. What kind of a sabotage is one that doesn't sabotage anything? BTW who sabotaged the reactors on the droid control ship in TPM and Death Star II in ROTJ? This is what makes R1's sabotage just plain silly because then reactors must be sabotaged to be destroyed. They should have stuck to Erso just telling the Rebels about the Death Star and where to get the plans to find a weakness.
@@ariesroc Galen's work was not sabotage. Sabotage is the act of damaging a machine so that it cannot fulfill it's function. He designed a weakness that could be exploited by others. I guess if you stretch it, you could think of it as "sabotage by proxy." lol
@ariesroc: Sorry, that was directed at the previous text.
It even describes why it took 20 years for the half built death star we see at the end of revenge of the sith to be completed
EASILY my favorite Star Wars movie!
Yeah, I'm guessing you aren't old enough to have seen the original trilogy when they were first released in theaters.
Great video! Covered some good connections and insights between the films that makes me have a deeper appreciation for Rogue One and it’s importance in the overall story. 👍
Rogue One: the best Star Wars film ever made. There, I said it. Fight me on it. I’m prepared to die on this hill.
A bit extreme?
@@minicle426 well, I anticipated more resistance initially; nope, so far so good! 😋
Caravan of Courage is the best Star Wars film. IDST.
Battle Beyond The Stars is the best star wars movie!
@@B-A-L Lol! In that case, “Galaxy Quest” is the best Star Trek movie; change my mind! 😂😂😂
I watched them back to back and it's worth it . It's almost like a 4 hour movie .
I'm loving it even more and want to watch it 10 more times
Rogue one is one of the best star wars
It's 5th place at best. It's definitely the best of the Disney era though.
@@kejarebi I would disagree. It's easily the best outside of the original trilogy.
Hands down way better than the sequels, prequels, and Solo. Only the OT can be argued as better, but honestly, I think R1 is even better than Empire.
@@The_Bad_Guy. No, you're ignoring the prequels.
@@turtlevader What? No. ROTS is better.
It’s hard to admit that it’s your favorite when you’ve been a fan since 1977, but it’s my favorite.
This is such a great list. Thank you, Josh.
Love it, but the Stormtroopers on the Death Star missed on purpose to let them escape to track them back to Yavin IV
It's why Leia says their escape was so easy.
@@seanj3667 not this ship, sister
I just love Felicity Jones, wouldn't mind seeing more Jyn, I'm sure she has done plenty before getting arrested. Of course I still don't know how Saw lost his feet becoming poor little tink tink lol 😝
Perhaps Vader should've gone down to get the plans himself, but he doesn't like sand, so he told that Commander to see to it. Too bad Bail Organa made it home, not that we ever saw him crying out in terror and suddenly silenced. . . .
Carrie Fisher thought the CGI Leia was deleted footage she forgot about, if you can't trust Carrie Fisher on digital Leia, who can you trust. Not sure how Peter Cushing would feel about Tarkin, but his family were okay with it
the Battle of Scarif is by far the best star wars space battle OF ALL TIME
The moment they exit hyperspace and you hear the "here they come" music cue, always gives me goosebumps.
Awesome for sure
@@badhareday7509 I cheered & teared up at that! And when Admiral Raddus calls for squadron leaders to sign in: Blue Leader, we knew; but then we hear & see Gold Leader as the Y-wings bob into view! Followed immediately by Red Leader! 🥲
...and knowing that as great as are the sacrifices in the Battle of Scarif, these two veterans (and their squadrons) will follow suit in the Yavin/Death Star battle...
@@motoman2WH3 Yes! 👍The grunts used to be background cannon fodder to make the Jedi look good.😁But in Rogue One they dished out as much as they took and showed us who really carried the rebellion. And the sheer scale of the engagement, with actual tactics being used. Take out the shield generator, use ion torpedoes - I've always wanted to see something like that.
Great film. I hope one day they go back and update the Tarkin and Leia cgi to the same as Luke in the Mandalorian
Rewatched Rogue One just a few days ago, love it! Thanks for this video, time to rewatch A New Hope 😁
Not bad, for a movie based on a scroll text, and a few opening lines. Definitely the best prequel.
The ending of Rogue One, although the whole movie is about HOW the Death Star plans are stolen, ties into the beginning of A New Hope pretty flawlessly
As someone born in 1977, I take great pain at you referring to it as "nearly 50 years ago"!
I loved it. And enjoyed your show very much too. Very nicely done.
1. I like to think because the Stormtroopers in “Star Wars” were ordered to let the prisoners escape and were fanatics, they were willing to die for the Empire rather than disobey orders and kill Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie aboard the Death Star.
2. The odds of hitting the Death Star kill shot were “1 in a million”, and without Force guided torpedoes it probably doesn’t get destroyed (plus Chewbacca’s well aimed shot on the TIE fighter to breakup Vader’s formation).
3. “Rogue One” leaves me with one major question: How did Vader know the Tantive IV was going to Tatooine? In “Star Wars”, Vader said he intercepted communications between the ship and the Rebellion, but it sure doesn’t seem like Leia had time to inform anyone of her plans to detour to Tatooine, before jumping to hyperspace in “Rogue One”. From “The Empire Strikes Back” tracking the trajectory of a ship, when it jumps to hyperspace is damn near impossible. So how did Vader know to intercept the Tantive IV at Tatooine? I don’t think Leia went straight to Tatooine, as the video suggests. I think she tried going to at least one other planet, but the Empire put all points bulletin out to any space port to impound that ship. Leia had no choice but to inform the Rebellion of her change in plans and seek out Obi Wan Kenobi.
4. From the novelization of the OT, Obi Wan reveals that he had an agreement with Bail that if Leia’s involvement in the Rebellion became too dangerous, she should seek out Obi Wan on Tatooine.
I know conventional wisdom is the Death Star’s a dumb waste of resources, but the number of things that had to go right for the first Death Star to be destroyed is mind boggling.
In “Rogue One”, while Vader was leisurely killing the rebels he trapped, only one person heard the guy with the Death Star plans cries for help and turned to try to open the door. If Vader was a step faster he could’ve killed the guy with the plans before he handed them off.
In “Star Wars”, the gunner who didn’t shoot the escape pod R2 and 3PO were on because no life forms were aboard set the stage for some fortuitous events for the Rebellion. Luke being too lazy to put R2’s restraining bolt back on, after seeing part of Leia’s message is one example. The red R2 unit Owen originally bought having a bad motivator is another. So many little events had to go right to get the plans to the Rebellion, the odds were really stacked in the Empire’s favor with the Death Star being able to control systems through terror.
The Death Star is a dumb waste of resources. If you can build a ship that can travel faster than light, then you can destroy planets...easily. At lightspeed, even a fucking Volvo hitting Earth would be like an ostrich egg shot by a 9mm.
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That said, while planet-killers are NOT effective military weapons...they would, ironically, be very useful for mining in uninhabited systems. Pick a planet, blow it apart, then go in and get the good bits out of the remains. All the really good stuff is deep down inside, after all. Much faster and simpler than trying to dig at it.
also in empire strikes back, boba fett tracks the falcon to bespin with very little effort. hell he basically just eyeballs it. one of the many reasons book of boba fett really nukes the character of boba fett.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 That's why the light speed of star wars doesn't work that way. Which is why the sequel trilogy was dumb to include a hyperspace ramming maneuver. Kinetic hyperspace missiles would be the main weapon in Starwars, not lasers.
Even then, the Death star was a bad idea. It makes them less flexible. Yeah they can attack planets, but that doesn't stop resistance cells that span all the planets. It keeps the governments in line. But they could have just as easily parked 4 Star Destroyers around every planet with the amount of resources they spent building the Death Star.
Butterfly effect
I mostly agree… however, as for the inaccuracy of the Stormtroopers, this can be explained by orders from the imperial command, who wanted the Millennium Falcon to escape and lead the Empire to the Rebel base.
3:24 I had the Star Wars vinyl record when I was a little kid and listened to it enough times that I memorized it. In this scene you speak of the line is not 'There will be no one to stop us this time' but instead 'There will be no one missing'. So, I suggest that the line is much more likely a product of them trying different lines there in the film and deciding on the one that sounded best instead of any greater meaning.
Krenic didn't know about the flaw, he only knew they wanted something from the archives, not even specifically what they wanted. I just rewatched it today.
Hmm, I'm starting to think that Rogue One might be the perfect entry point for newer/younger viewers to get into Star Wars. New enough to not be campy but does an amazing job of setting up the events of Episode 4 to where the viewer probably won't care any more that they're watching a 45 year old children's movie.
“Don’t act so surprised, your highness, you weren’t on any Mercy Mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies.”
Newer/younger viewer after watching rogue one tilts their head in confusion - “Daddy, what does Darth Vader mean by that?”
Now they can wonder why Vader doesn't come right out and tell Leia that he actually saw her ship leaving the battle above Scarif.
Anachronistic editing paradox?
Interesting addition of the Force for the aim of the Stormtroopers. I’ve heard that Leia’s line of letting them off so easy so they could track also explains missing shots. Though ofc they did not need everyone to survive for the tracking to work But, still.
I'm a huge fan of Rouge One, but after watching this video I have come to appreciate it even more. Thank you!
“Don’t act so surprised, your highness, you weren’t on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies.” - retconned by rogue one since it never happened.
“Until this battle station is fully operational we are vulnerable.” - “The final check out is completed, we are now operational.” - “I would like you to join me in a ceremony that would make this battle station operational. In a way, you have determined the choice of a planet that would be destroyed first.” - retconned by rogue one now since it shows an already fully operational Death Star.
“I only hope that when the data is analyzed a weakness can be found.” - retconned by rogue one since Jin had informed the entirety of the Rebel Alliance that there is a weakness.
In addition to all the items on your list, I really love how Rogue One gave me a much deeper meaning for Luke’s naming his squadron, Rogue.
Actually Rogue One didn't change the thing with Tarkin, the Empire had found out about the weak spot during ANH apparently. The tech engineer reported it to her CO, who was one of the officers who we see in the Battle of Yavin. He goes around the station, presumably on his way to Tarkin (the station is moon-sized after all), and I believe he does speak to Vader in the battle, or maybe it is a different one. Either way, he arrives in time to tell Tarkin to evacuate, but Tarkin says no. Mere moments later and officer and a mouse droid hurry to the command deck, the officer wishing to show the droid that the rebels who killed his friend (one of the troopers who boards the Falcon to check on the scanning crew) as well as all the rest of them will pay for all of the people they have been killing. The door opens in time for them to see Tarkin's iconic pose and then the station is destroyed after the gunner at the controls has a quiet breakdown (listen for someone shouting 'standby alert' to Tarkin next time you watch ANH).
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What in the world is this nonsense you typed?
An officer walked up to Tarkin and told him they THINK there might be a reason for the attack based on what they were attacking. They had no clue if it was legit or not. However a full blown attack like that meant they Rebels thought it was legit so the officer had to take it seriously. But Tarkin didn't see that level of info. He just got a single line of warning in the movie and that was it.
@@randallsanchez3161 That at least made sense.
@@randallsanchez3161 They knew it was legit because they ran a diagnostic and found the weakness, and Darth Vader and Tarkin were already suspicious of Galen Erso.
Episode IV: A New Hope is still the best. The reason is a bit unfair to the other movies.
When IV came out it changed the movie world and most significantly Science Fiction movies forever. The special effects were like nothing seen before. The characters were very well done, for science fiction movies. It had space battles that were filled with tension and exhilaration. Star Wars broke so many molds when it came out. It was mesmerizing to a young child and amazing to a teenager. People went back to see the movie multiple times. Unfortunately, no matter how good the sequels and prequels are, there can only be one "break-out" movie stat started it all.
Lightening in a bottle ...force lightning in a bottle you might say.
Watching that with my father in the theater when it came out is probably my favorite memory
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That is true. I saw ANH in 1977 when it came out in LA. The line went around the theater twice, but the wait was worth it.
That whole fulfilling your destiny thing is pretty clever sir... pretty clever
I enjoyed this countdown. this was my favorite "off-shoot" films of the franchise and now I have some more reasons to like it best. Nice job, josh.
In other words the intrigue and mystery that the original film offered has been ruined by people who need everything spoon fed to them - once the curtain has been lifted it's all just Ho-Hum
100%
Great video my guy. Prefect explanation.
wow you just made these better which i didnt think was possible
About the claim that stormtroopers can't the side of a barn. Well, remember when Vader let our heroes escape the Death Star because he put a tracker on the Falcon? The entire pursuit was set up. This was realized by Leia. Most people overlook that little detail.
When episode IV was released, it was merely 'Star Wars'. There was no episode number, no "A New Hope" title, and Han clearly shot first.
To this day, I refer to the Original as "Star Wars." No episode number, no subtitle. It is the OG, without which none of the others--sequels, prequels, sequel trilogy, series, comics, books--would exist.
This is your best Star Wars video in my opinion
The one thing it didn’t explain is why the one imperial officer decided not to fire on the escape pod that had no life forms.
The gun he was manning was either an ion gun or grapple. He didn't want to waste a shot on what might have been a decoy when another escape pod flies off while he's engaged with the first.
Why a non-lethal gun meant to capture escape pods rather than destroy them?
"Commander, tear this ship apart until you find the plans. And bring me the prisoners-- _I want them alive!"_ --Darth Vader
You do _not_ go against orders when Vader's the one giving them.
Ah, #2, The Stormtroopers intentionally allowed them to escape in order to track them.
Tarkin's line to Vader,
Leia's line to Han,
the actual Death Star having tracked and followed them to Yavin 4,
Can't find the rebellion's HQ and stamp them out once and for all if you allow your Soldiers to just kill them during their escape.
Which again; even the 1977 movie addresses, several times.
The storm troopers didn't miss their targets.
They deliberately aimed to avoid hitting.
The original reason for the Stormtroopers missing their shots in A New Hope was because they were ordered not to fire killing shots so that the empire could track the Millennium Falcon.
Though I do love the video, good stuff
i was going to say just that.
That wouldn't explain the other films though...
It seems that the Force *did* cause them to miss certain people because the force was trying to restore a balance which had been tilted into the Dark's favor.
@@d0nKsTaH Disney took the "Stormtroopers can't hit anything" joke and ran with it in the new films and shows. Maybe the force having an effect on their aim has an effect on troopers in the new canon - but that doesn't explain little gags like in the Mandalorian with the two stormtroopers failing horribly at target practice.
My comment still stands, as I said the *original reason - not whatever new canon Disney has concocted.
I'm not guessing or theorizing, it's straight up said in A New Hope that they were allowed to escape in order to be tracked.
At any rate, sorry if this was long winded. May the force be with you.
@@WhenTheSunCorrupts I mean just look at them when they aren’t fighting main characters. They are shown to be very deadly soldiers. It’s just Star Wars has the largest example of plot armor ever.
@@JohnWilliams-wl9px Disney truly abused this franchise.
When Luke, Han, Obi-Wan, and the droids were on the Death Star, Darth Vader ordered a tracking device installed on the Millennium Falcon to track them back to the Rebel headquarters when they escaped. That plan worked. We saw it work. But it would not have worked if they had all been shot dead by storm-troopers, or re=captured. Darth Vader deliberately let them escape so that he could follow them.
That having been his plan, nothing could be more natural than that Vader had ordered the storm troopers on the Death Star to herd the heroes towards their ship and let them escape, and not on any account to shoot them. So the fact that stormtroopers on the Death Star did not shoot the heroes there is not evidence that they were bad shots. Rather, it is a clue as to what was occurring in the plot.
One of the best of the Star Wars movies. Just great all around movies it had everything, even darthvaders cameo was amazing
I love Rogue One, especially for all that it did.
I've seen every Star Wars movie when they first came out. I think it's at the top of my list
Rogue One did not change a bit of ep IV. It just gave more depth.
Rouge One is my favorite piece of Star Wars content since Return of the Jedi. I may even like it more then Return of the Jedi, but that movie being the culmination of the trilogy gives it an edge. I was so worried about it when I heard about the re-shoots, but watching it in theaters made me feel like I was alive well before I was born, witnessing the magic that people felt watching the original Star Wars in 1977.
Okay, yes, good job on this one. It actually did give me a kick to go rewatch Rogue One.
Rogue One + Star Wars IV is without question my very favorite dual-film arc of all time. Further, I also tack on SW5: ESB in this group, as the full package of the greatest multi-film story arc in Sci-Fi film history. For me it's simple - SW IV rocked me to my core, as I grew up with that one as a kid. I was there in theaters in 1977; it literally changed the world overnight. Yet Rogue One was done so damn well, it always makes me cry. Every single time. I watch this entire film arc at least once per year. I prefer re-re-rewatching these over watching new films I've never even seen. For me, it's therapy. I know, I'm pretty pathetic.
I don't think your pathetic: Just a fan.
Rogue One is the best Star Wars film and you cannot change my mind.
I doubt anyone really cares about changing your mind. 🤷♂️
Rogue One blew me away as its everything I'd ever wanted a Star Wars film to be.
There's no movie called Rouge One.
i love rogue one and this is a very good video. good job
I absolutely love 💘 this movie 🎥😍
I put it up there with the original trilogy. I thought Solo was great as well, but it's because I read all the books, so they were brought to life in a way. My opinion lol
The best of them all, good performances by a talented cast, a tight script and a film I rewatch regularly. The only thing I don't understand is why they think Cassion Andor should get his own series, rather than Jin. Felicity Jones is simply superb. Compare and contrast, Solo. Well named a film to watch once. (if you have to)
Jen Erso only had one mission, while Cassian had many as a Rebel operative. That's why he would be more likely to get his own story arc.
For me, Rogue One is part one of A New Hope. A must watch.
I fell asleep during R1 but that last scene! OMFG. I absolutely LOVE how Vader chilled out AFTER Episode IV. He was 100x more chilling once he stopped yelling
I'll tell you what, after Rogue One premiered, I watched A New Hope again and it elicited an emotional response like it never had before. Rogue One put all of the original trilogy into sharp and clear perspective. Great movie.
I saw it in the theater the second weekend after it opened. It was so much to take in, that as I exited the theater, I turned around a bought a second ticket, another bucket of popcorn and large drink and watched it again.
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10- Actually it leaves the problem of how did Vader track and locate them, let alone arrive before them when the Star Destroyer is not faster than the CR90 in hyperspace?
9- the initial weakness made more sense: there was one vent out of many that was a problem and it was missed -it's one of THOUSANDS of 2 meter holes on a construct the size of a MOON... easy to miss. Compare that to "we killed this guy's family and now he's willing to oversee our most important project! Yay! Let's not check his work!"
Sorry, Rogue One makes it make less sense.
7- R2 tricked Luke into removing the restraining bolt so he could leave, not to turn off the projector.
6- Tarkin was told there was a weakness. So Rogue One doesn't change it at all. Tarkin was arrogant and believed he could not lose. Factoring in 9, Rogue One actually makes it make less sense.
"There is a weakness"
"Impossible. This is our ultimate construct"
Vs
"There is a weakness"
"Impossible. The man who we pressed into service after killing his family in front of him says this is his best work, and clearly that would have no double meaning"
5- The Rebels were fighting initially against an Empire willing to kill and destroy everything. Plenty of reason and needed no "improving" (not that any was given, all this did, even by the video's commentary, was show they were about to give up recently)
4- the Rebel fleet was supposed to be small because they were rebels in hiding, not a huge army. It made sense before.
3- Fans have debated for years over how bad stormtrooper aim is, given Tarkin admits that the Falcon and Leia were allowed to escape.
2- The Death Stars destruction held plenty of meaning already, and that meaning didn't change. So again, what was added, wasn't needed, and wasn't some improvement or anything.
1- Personally I was sick of hearing the word "hope" by the end of Rogue One.
Yes. Some valid points of criticism here. My hats off to you.
Also i'd like to add, that you would double check plans after they are finished by the man, who you forced to work with you.
No disrespect, but i think i just found a Rogue One hater. Which in my opinion makes no sense since i prefer it to some of the OT and Prequels and all of the sequals.
Lol I get it, you don't like the movie. Now let's rip into Empire. Why do the ships leaving hoth choose to fly straight towards the waiting star destroyers? Why do the empire waste time sending imperial walkers when they have tie bombers and can even destroy the shield generator and/or base from space. Why doesn't the millennium falcons sensors detect Slave 1, why doesn't lando and luke get sucked out the top of the falcon when you see it pull away from cloud city at about mach 1 then a scene of them lowering into the falcon... Oh yeah a belt clip. Why can't vader use the force to stop the falcon taking off, why can't they force pull each others light sabers about and switch them on and off for a laugh...
@@robertward5047 Well if you pay attention and dig some lore from Expanded Universe - you will find answers for all of that questions, most of which was considered canon by our grandmaster Lukas.
So, yeah. Try it out.)
@@thatwolfensteinguy8954 So, being a bit critical - is being hater nowadays?)
I was one of the few who did not love this movie but I can not argue the importance of this film
Out of the entire Disney Star Wars canon, Rogue One was the only movie which I truly liked and can't nitpick about.
Overall, Rogue One is my second favourite Star Wars movie after Revenge Of The Sith.
I really loved rogue one. It felt like a war movie, and that final battle was beautiful. It's too bad Disney isn't making anymore films
I literaly cried in the theater ... was the closer I've ever felt to my childhood watching a movie since the 80's.
So much love, so much respect in the making of it ... How could Disney make this masterpiece and also the piece of trash that were the sequels?
Different directors and also they weren't making a new story in a new timeline, they simply filled in some gaps in the story between ROTS and ANH and added to the OT.
Rogue One is the most Star Wars movie to have been released in some time. It did a genius job of showing the events right before A New Hope.
I loved Rogue One and enjoyed your details very much. Thank you. I entirely agree with you on every one.
I honestly think rogue one is the best star wars film of the lot, it put the last trilogy to shame, it wasn't full of shouting, whooping and political correctness. It was a story worth telling and was told in a mature but action packed way. JJ Abrams and that other idiot could have learned a lot from this. The protagonist were fallible, not so perfect like Ray that it made her unrelatable and unlikable..I've watched rogue one a few times and it's still enjoyable, just like the original films. I don't even want to watch the rise of Skywalker for a second time or ever again. The same for the other 2. Shame. rogue one, well written, well acted and special affects to rival the original. It's everything a star wars film should be and everything the last trilogy wasn't
Don't put all the blame on the directors. They can only override so much of the writing for the sake of 'direction/directing'. Directors tend to get either too much or too little credit. Yes they bring the composition of the movie together, direct the scenes and make them run until they're right. (Or as right as budget/patience will allow *Coughs in Throne room garbage show*) Directors can do great things to make bad writing better, or terrible things to make good writing worse. But you can only go so far one way or the other before you're locked in by the script. Finality is down to the writers and produces, not the directors. Unless the director is also a writer or actor for the movie. But that's an exception, not a rule
@@Meravokas JJ and Rian Johnson wrote their installments in the sequel trilogy so in this case we can blame them 🤣
If the sequel trilogy actually focused on being politically correct, then it might be a better movie series
@@juliank6793 Care to explain?
@@StrappingYoungLadam no
A New Hope came out right after I graduated high school. I remember friends telling me I absolutely had to see this movie, and right fully so. When, a few years later, I saw a preview for Empire, I was simply enthralled. The movie itself was, I think, successful and amazing because it has a strong sense of elegance.
Having now seen all of the movies, I would rank Rogue One as my third favorite, for the multitude of reasons already cited in this video as well as in the comments.
I do disagree, a bit, with the notion that Ep. IV is called a New Hope because of the reasons stated. The review suggests that the new hope was not Luke. But in Empire, when Luke takes off to save Han and Leia, Obi Wan says, "that boy was our last hope." He reiterates this in ROTJ when he says, "then the Emperor has already won; you were our last hope."
So, a New Hope can certainly still be Luke himself.
Rogue one is becoming my favorite over time. A new hope narrowly ahead. Together they make a mega super hero
Rogue One became my third favorite Star Wars movie (after A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back). After watching this content I love it even more. I was unaware of how many plot holes it filled in the original Star Wars movie.
The plitholes still exist, and this creates more.
Even though people would hate it, I would love to see a remastered version of A NEW HOPE.
It would be so cool to add that next level of emotions to the scenes, and really make it feel like there is something at stake, rather then the lighthearted feel of the original, just my thoughts.
Plus you could have ewan mcgregor play obi wan and the final fight between him and Vader could carry so much more weight. It would be a legendary remake I think