Chat corner 129: Rogue One

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week it’s time for the movies again, specifically for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It came out in 2016 and was the first non-Skywalker Star Wars movie.

A bit of Wookieepedia-sourced trivia, it’s listed as the first movie in the so-called Star Wars Anthology Series, which predates the Disney acquisitions and currently contains only two movies, Rogue One and Solo and it’s unclear whether any of the future SW movies would belong to it as well.

Anyway, Rogue One! Do you have thoughts? Fanfic recs? New perspectives caused by Andor or Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Comments

[jaded_of_mara]

i honestly think the film has pacing issues, where it takes great pains to establish some things, but then blasts through basically everything once the empire starts destroying jedha

i will say that it's really funny that rogue one tends to dominate "best star wars movie" polls on tumblr, not because of its quality, but because its fans are one unified block, while fans of the pt, ot and st have three movies to choose from. (for some reason, nobody ever pulls for solo)