Sea Skimmer wrote:Saw it today. Bunch of lame. The entire first act is one giant plot hole of nobody notices the death star...in orbit of a planet with rebel activity,
Tarkin ordered the Jedah target in response to that jumpy defector Imperial pilot.
The Death Star was originally 'parts unknown'
and the rest of the movie is super slow moving action that was amazing bad.
The first act was clunky as Hell, it picked up momentum and by the halfway point was quite good...the ending was awesome.
And that's not even touching on the space battle where apparently everyones plan was just not to open fire.
Too much of the space battle was offscreen, I agree. They focused on the fighters and never showed the ISD's and MonCal slugging it out. If they had it'd give better context for why Raddus decided to have a Hammerhead play Jem'Hadar
And how the shit to AT-AT walkers sneak up on people in broad daylight.
That's actually possible. in the old canon AT-AT's were said to be deceptively fast. It's a psychological thing, their massive size makes one perceive they are slow and lumbering....the walkers can actually haul ass.
Throw in that, their launch point was probably nearby, and the beach soil not carrying their 'thud' until they were very close
That said, it did build up the universe in non useless ways, though it also doubled down on the Empire must be 1 billion percent inept at everything crap.
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SKariff is the only part to clearly indicate that perspective.
Only counters are that...
1: most of the spacebattle was offscreen
2. No one was expecting a raid on the planet
3. Because of no one expecting them, Rogue One was able to make their plucky little band look like an Army (blowing up stuff across the whole complex, sending false radio reports, etc.)
Less Imperial slapstick, more like 'Space Pearl Harbor'
As far as Krennic being ignorant of Galen's subterfuge, internal corruption. Tarkin had all the information but chose not to share and instead keep Krennic in the dark...until it benefited Tarkin.
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- PeZook
