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How did the Alliance know to attack Eadu? Was it because Cassian had transmitted the location from the ship after they escape Jedha? I believe so, but that makes his line about not being able to transmit a message to the Alliance about bringing back Galen to share what he knew because they were in the middle of Empirial space more dubious. Why can he transmit one message but not the other? If he was having doubts about his secret order to assassinate him, seems sharing more information with his superiors would have made sense. I guess I can reason why he would have played it close to the vest, just seems like a poor argument for others on the ship given he just sent a secret message about Eadu, but now he can't send another?

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Saw it for the second time last night. Observations:

• Jedha is intriguing. If this was their "Vatican City", what was the temple on Coruscant? What about the ancient temple where Rey finds Luke? I can see the temple on Coruscant just being another temple, think big church in NY city where all the action is, but it does seem like there would be a story as to why the birthplace of the Jedi order would be the island and not Jedha.
• How did the Alliance know to attack Eadu? Was it because Cassian had transmitted the location from the ship after they escape Jedha? I believe so, but that makes his line about not being able to transmit a message to the Alliance about bringing back Galen to share what he knew because they were in the middle of Empirial space more dubious. Why can he transmit one message but not the other? If he was having doubts about his secret order to assassinate him, seems sharing more information with his superiors would have made sense. I guess I can reason why he would have played it close to the vest, just seems like a poor argument for others on the ship given he just sent a secret message about Eadu, but now he can't send another?

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Ag Since 83 said:

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the danger about transmitting was more about the content of the message: what they couldn't risk the Empire intercepting and learning what the Rebellion knew

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There was no screenplay, there was just a story breakdown at that point, scene by scene. He got me to rip hundreds of movies and basically make 'Rogue One' using other films so that they could work out how much dialogue they actually needed in the film.

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I generally feel that force sensitive types are basically able to feel where to go and how to move so that they are not hit, and vice versa (able to hit targets that would be difficult otherwise)

I don't know that theres a whole lot of direct evidence of this (but this film certainly included a large portion of that evidence for it)

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I generally feel that force sensitive types are basically able to feel where to go and how to move so that they are not hit, and vice versa (able to hit targets that would be difficult otherwise)

I don't know that theres a whole lot of direct evidence of this (but this film certainly included a large portion of that evidence for it)

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Agreed that there's definitely a prescience that force-sensitives have, including for avoiding blaster fire. However, the scene of Chirrut walking in a straight line and not getting hit (by death troopers, not just storm troopers) as well as some other sources (i.e. Clone Wars series) infer that the Force is not just something to be used, but something with its own... mind? It was almost like it was choosing to help Chirrut. Or at least that's how I like to look at it.

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israeliag said:

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JJxvi said:

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I generally feel that force sensitive types are basically able to feel where to go and how to move so that they are not hit, and vice versa (able to hit targets that would be difficult otherwise)

I don't know that theres a whole lot of direct evidence of this (but this film certainly included a large portion of that evidence for it)

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Agreed that there's definitely a prescience that force-sensitives have, including for avoiding blaster fire. However, the scene of Chirrut walking in a straight line and not getting hit (by death troopers, not just storm troopers) as well as some other sources (i.e. Clone Wars series) infer that the Force is not just something to be used, but something with its own... mind? It was almost like it was choosing to help Chirrut. Or at least that's how I like to look at it.

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Ag Since 83 said:

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the danger about transmitting was more about the content of the message: what they couldn't risk the Empire intercepting and learning what the Rebellion knew

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This seemed pretty clear to me.

Jyn learns what her father was really up to before leaving Jedda.
Cassion contacts rebel base, confirms Death Star existence and that Gaylan is on Eadu.
Rebel general re-confirms his orders stand.
Jyn relays to Cassion what she learned about her father.
At this point, Cassion can't send that message because the content, if intercepted, would let the Imperials know the Death Star has a built in weakness.

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What was interesting about that was that we had one day right at the beginning of the process back in 2014, and Gareth and I had just done a tour of the archives at Skywalker ranch, and as we were leaving we came out of the back. And out the back there were racks and racks of film and Gareth said 'what's that?'

And they said 'that's the original reels from 'A New Hope'', and Gareth said 'can we see that? See what's on it?' And they were like 'yeah, I guess!'

And that's where the idea came from. We went through those cans of film and looked at them and it was like 'oh my gosh, we can and integrate the pilots in somehow.'

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From the article above (pretty neat):

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What was interesting about that was that we had one day right at the beginning of the process back in 2014, and Gareth and I had just done a tour of the archives at Skywalker ranch, and as we were leaving we came out of the back. And out the back there were racks and racks of film and Gareth said 'what's that?'

And they said 'that's the original reels from 'A New Hope'', and Gareth said 'can we see that? See what's on it?' And they were like 'yeah, I guess!'

And that's where the idea came from. We went through those cans of film and looked at them and it was like 'oh my gosh, we can and integrate the pilots in somehow.'

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israeliag said:

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JJxvi said:

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I generally feel that force sensitive types are basically able to feel where to go and how to move so that they are not hit, and vice versa (able to hit targets that would be difficult otherwise)

I don't know that theres a whole lot of direct evidence of this (but this film certainly included a large portion of that evidence for it)

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Agreed that there's definitely a prescience that force-sensitives have, including for avoiding blaster fire. However, the scene of Chirrut walking in a straight line and not getting hit (by death troopers, not just storm troopers) as well as some other sources (i.e. Clone Wars series) infer that the Force is not just something to be used, but something with its own... mind? It was almost like it was choosing to help Chirrut. Or at least that's how I like to look at it.

To expand on that a bit, we had seen him be one with the Force (blind ninja skillz), but only then in that scene do we see the Force be with him. Hmm.... have we talked about the Force as a character with its own arc through the movie?

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israeliag said:

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JJxvi said:

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I generally feel that force sensitive types are basically able to feel where to go and how to move so that they are not hit, and vice versa (able to hit targets that would be difficult otherwise)

I don't know that theres a whole lot of direct evidence of this (but this film certainly included a large portion of that evidence for it)

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Agreed that there's definitely a prescience that force-sensitives have, including for avoiding blaster fire. However, the scene of Chirrut walking in a straight line and not getting hit (by death troopers, not just storm troopers) as well as some other sources (i.e. Clone Wars series) infer that the Force is not just something to be used, but something with its own... mind? It was almost like it was choosing to help Chirrut. Or at least that's how I like to look at it.

To expand on that a bit, we had seen him be one with the Force (blind ninja skillz), but only then in that scene do we see the Force be with him. Hmm.... have we talked about the Force as a character with its own arc through the movie?

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By the way, what was Krennic's rank in the EU literature?

It seemed as a Moff, Tarkin outranked him clearly. So he wasn't a GAd Thrawn rank, take it?

(I have read the Zahn novels -- but missed alot of the EU -- just too massive and tangled ) since the days of the prequels. )

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What is the "Director" title that is used for him?

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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A billion worldwide is not even in question at this point. It'll do at least $100M more domestically alone.

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