GreasenUSA said:

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AGC said:

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veryfuller said:

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I mean, as someone who is actively trying to figure this out to introduce to my kids, I think perhaps maybe you are UNDER thinking it. Rogue One is very accessible to even a casual Star Wars fan but I think if you are coming in cold, its not really as inviting as you are thinking it is.

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ANH is the way to go. You get to watch it our family when you turn five. Basic primers of the force, good and evil easy to understand and see, plus you get to wrestle at a basic level with a good guy you care about dying in the process.

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Seriously. Start from the beginning. Anything else is overthinking it.

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TCTTS said:

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veryfuller said:

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I mean, as someone who is actively trying to figure this out to introduce to my kids, I think perhaps maybe you are UNDER thinking it. Rogue One is very accessible to even a casual Star Wars fan but I think if you are coming in cold, its not really as inviting as you are thinking it is.

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I genuinely don't understand what's not accessible/inviting about it...

- Obvious bad guys (the Empire), who very clearly rule the galaxy with "terror," need a scientists to finish building their super weapon. In the process they kill the scientist's wife, then take him, leaving his daughter orphaned.

- The scientist's daughter grows up an aimless criminal, but ultimately finds purpose (along with a sense of focused revenge) when she's recruited to join a band of rebels who are trying to take down the Empire.

- The rebels aren't Boy Scouts by any means, but they're clearly on the right side of history, and accomplish their very-sympathetic/very-easily-explained goal in the end.

Overall, it's an insanely simple plot to follow, one that sets up the stakes/overall dynamic of the galaxy in beyond obvious fashion. And then any questions left dangling in that regard are answered in the very next movie.

Otherwise, what else do we need to know? How could someone who's never seen a Star Wars movie be confused in any *significant* way during the events of Rogue One? Sure, at one point maybe they're wondering what, exactly, the Force is, or who this Darth Vader fellow is, but both are basically in the fringes, neither question makes the movie unaccessible/uninviting by any means, and again, any necessary context for both is addressed within a half hour of the next movie.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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GreasenUSA said:

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AGC said:

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veryfuller said:

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I mean, as someone who is actively trying to figure this out to introduce to my kids, I think perhaps maybe you are UNDER thinking it. Rogue One is very accessible to even a casual Star Wars fan but I think if you are coming in cold, its not really as inviting as you are thinking it is.

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ANH is the way to go. You get to watch it our family when you turn five. Basic primers of the force, good and evil easy to understand and see, plus you get to wrestle at a basic level with a good guy you care about dying in the process.

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Seriously. Start from the beginning. Anything else is overthinking it.

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But Phantom Menace is the beginning...

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fig96 said:

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Aggie Dad 26 said:

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TCTTS said:

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veryfuller said:

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I mean, as someone who is actively trying to figure this out to introduce to my kids, I think perhaps maybe you are UNDER thinking it. Rogue One is very accessible to even a casual Star Wars fan but I think if you are coming in cold, its not really as inviting as you are thinking it is.

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I genuinely don't understand what's not accessible/inviting about it...

- Obvious bad guys (the Empire), who very clearly rule the galaxy with "terror," need a scientists to finish building their super weapon. In the process they kill the scientist's wife, then take him, leaving his daughter orphaned.

- The scientist's daughter grows up an aimless criminal, but ultimately finds purpose (along with a sense of focused revenge) when she's recruited to join a band of rebels who are trying to take down the Empire.

- The rebels aren't Boy Scouts by any means, but they're clearly on the right side of history, and accomplish their very-sympathetic/very-easily-explained goal in the end.

Overall, it's an insanely simple plot to follow, one that sets up the stakes/overall dynamic of the galaxy in beyond obvious fashion. And then any questions left dangling in that regard are answered in the very next movie.

Otherwise, what else do we need to know? How could someone who's never seen a Star Wars movie be confused in any *significant* way during the events of Rogue One? Sure, at one point maybe they're wondering what, exactly, the Force is, or who this Darth Vader fellow is, but both are basically in the fringes, neither question makes the movie unaccessible/uninviting by any means, and again, any necessary context for both is addressed within a half hour of the next movie.

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You're too nerdy. That's your problem. Not everyone who sits down to watch Star Wars is on your level

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That statement is likely offensive to the actual Star Wars nerds on this board.

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fig96 said:

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Aggie Dad 26 said:

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TCTTS said:

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veryfuller said:

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I mean, as someone who is actively trying to figure this out to introduce to my kids, I think perhaps maybe you are UNDER thinking it. Rogue One is very accessible to even a casual Star Wars fan but I think if you are coming in cold, its not really as inviting as you are thinking it is.

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I genuinely don't understand what's not accessible/inviting about it...

- Obvious bad guys (the Empire), who very clearly rule the galaxy with "terror," need a scientists to finish building their super weapon. In the process they kill the scientist's wife, then take him, leaving his daughter orphaned.

- The scientist's daughter grows up an aimless criminal, but ultimately finds purpose (along with a sense of focused revenge) when she's recruited to join a band of rebels who are trying to take down the Empire.

- The rebels aren't Boy Scouts by any means, but they're clearly on the right side of history, and accomplish their very-sympathetic/very-easily-explained goal in the end.

Overall, it's an insanely simple plot to follow, one that sets up the stakes/overall dynamic of the galaxy in beyond obvious fashion. And then any questions left dangling in that regard are answered in the very next movie.

Otherwise, what else do we need to know? How could someone who's never seen a Star Wars movie be confused in any *significant* way during the events of Rogue One? Sure, at one point maybe they're wondering what, exactly, the Force is, or who this Darth Vader fellow is, but both are basically in the fringes, neither question makes the movie unaccessible/uninviting by any means, and again, any necessary context for both is addressed within a half hour of the next movie.

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You're too nerdy. That's your problem. Not everyone who sits down to watch Star Wars is on your level

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That statement is likely offensive to the actual Star Wars nerds on this board.

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TCTTS said:

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(That said, as far as I know I'm the only one here ever employed by The Force.net, which has to count for something.)

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TCTTS said:

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My level? The entire point of my post was to show how straightforward Rogue One is for anyone with two eyes and a brain.

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