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PostPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sutehp wrote:
It was indeed Wedge who said that the shot was impossible even for a computer.

It was "Fake Wedge" who said that.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Fake_Wedge#Behind_the_scenes
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is neat. Check this out.

If Rogue One and A New Hope were seamlessly connected....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6miDu-IPtQ
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wajeb Deb Kaadeb wrote:
This is neat. Check this out.

If Rogue One and A New Hope were seamlessly connected....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6miDu-IPtQ

Neat. One part I don't get is the "Scour the far reaches of the galaxy, find the Rebels..." There was no time for scouring. They had to figure out Leia's ship went to Tatooine quickly to be right behind them when they got there.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also, Leia saying “it’s Vader” while the ship was still in hyperspace, even though it’s established that ships in hyperspace are very difficult to track (at this time.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the radio drama Vader does track the Tantive IV, whether through the Force or maybe they just followed their hyperspace vector.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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In the radio drama Vader does track the Tantive IV, whether through the Force or maybe they just followed their hyperspace vector.

I’m aware. My point is that Leia should have had no way of knowing she was being tracked until the Devastator dropped out of hyperspace behind the Tantive IV at Tatooine.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah. You’re light years ahead of me.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The very first short story in the new Star Wars 40th Anniversary anthology From A Certain Point Of View was "Raymus," which takes place directly from the end of Rogue One and leads directly into the beginning of ANH. It was established in the novelization of RO that the Tantive IV had suffered battle damage from an earlier mission and that's why it had to be carried in the Profundity's docking bay; Raymus and his crew were desperately trying to get the Tantive IV spaceworthy again on the way to and during the Battle of Scarif. They had only barely managed to juryrig the hyperdrive when Darth Vader boarded the Profundity and since repairs to the hyperdrive weren't complete, the Tantive IV left a "hyperspace wake" behind them as it left Scarif. That's how Vader and the Devastator managed to track the Tantive IV to Tatooine. In fact, the Tantive IV's hyperdrive finally gave out a few parsecs away from Tatooine, giving the Devastator just enough time to catch up.

If the hyperdrive had held out just a second or two longer, the Rebels would have come out of hyperspace right above Tatooine and would have had time to scuttle the ship, get to the escape pods and gone to ground in Mos Eisly without the Imperials ever finding them. Leia would have contacted Kenobi and gotten both him and the Death Star plans to Bail Organa on Alderaan. Whether Kenobi would have opted to bring Luke along to Alderaan with him is an open question, though. It's unlikely as Uncle Owen would almost certainly have refused to let Luke go since Owen wouldn't have been murdered by stormtroopers in this scenario. And without Luke, the Death Star wouldn't have been destroyed....
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sutehp wrote:
The very first short story in the new Star Wars 40th Anniversary anthology From A Certain Point Of View was "Raymus," which takes place directly from the end of Rogue One and leads directly into the beginning of ANH. It was established in the novelization of RO that the Tantive IV had suffered battle damage from an earlier mission and that's why it had to be carried in the Profundity's docking bay; Raymus and his crew were desperately trying to get the Tantive IV spaceworthy again on the way to and during the Battle of Scarif. They had only barely managed to juryrig the hyperdrive when Darth Vader boarded the Profundity and since repairs to the hyperdrive weren't complete, the Tantive IV left a "hyperspace wake" behind them as it left Scarif. That's how Vader and the Devastator managed to track the Tantive IV to Tatooine. In fact, the Tantive IV's hyperdrive finally gave out a few parsecs away from Tatooine, giving the Devastator just enough time to catch up.

That works. Thanks for sharing the short story details.

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If the hyperdrive had held out just a second or two longer, the Rebels would have come out of hyperspace right above Tatooine and would have had time to scuttle the ship, get to the escape pods and gone to ground in Mos Eisly without the Imperials ever finding them. Leia would have contacted Kenobi and gotten both him and the Death Star plans to Bail Organa on Alderaan. Whether Kenobi would have opted to bring Luke along to Alderaan with him is an open question, though. It's unlikely as Uncle Owen would almost certainly have refused to let Luke go since Owen wouldn't have been murdered by stormtroopers in this scenario. And without Luke, the Death Star wouldn't have been destroyed....

"Infinities" speculations can be fun. I have to say that Obi-Wan may have been able to destroy the Death Star. He only died when he did for the sake of Luke seeing him disappear yet still hearing his voice to demonstrate the power of the Force. But would Obi-Wan have gone with Leia and left Luke behind on Tatooine? Maybe since the Empire had a planet killer he would have, and then went back to Luke after destroying the Death Star. But without Owen and Beru dying, Luke may have stayed there at least another season. But Luke already wanted to join the Rebellion and maybe he would have wanted to train as a Jedi if he had been told his father had been one. Maybe Obi-Wan would have begun training Luke as a Jedi, and maybe Leia would have been sent to Yoda. Leia may not have wanted to go to Yoda but maybe if Bail were still alive he would have talked her into it. Or, maybe Leia would have wanted to train as a Jedi as a path to the power to help her destroy the Empire, and would have been a danger to cross over to the Dark Side in the quest for that power. Maybe Yoda, Obi-Wan, Luke and Leia as a group could have take on Vader and Emperor separately and defeated them both. But maybe if Alderaan hadn't been destroyed, a lot of planets wouldn't have been inspired to join the Rebellion and it would have been doomed.
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2018 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This video has a pretty good explanation of how the U-Wing from RO made the jump to hyperspace from a gravity well....

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Girl Reacts To The End Of Rogue One

The video really captures the essence of fan reaction to Rogue One.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very creative hobbyist film editing though.

As for the woman reacting to R1... that was pretty much me without the tears. And shorter hair.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TauntaunScout wrote:
As for the woman reacting to R1... that was pretty much me without the tears. And shorter hair.

That's me every time I watch Rogue One or this video, tears and all. But shorter hair. And I'm a dude.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the end fight with Vader, how does he kill the guy right after the one he TK'd into the ceiling? He levitates/chokes the ceiling guy and finishes him off with a flick of the lightsaber. I'm asking about the next rebel trooper. After Vader kills the ceiling guy he still has his left hand in a fist. He then extends that hand toward the trooper in question, there's a flash (which looks like it originates from Vader's hand - tough to tell) and the trooper falls, apparently shot.

Ok, how did Vader kill him? Did he reflect a blaster bolt from his hand into the trooper, or was this something new like a Bolt of Hatred?

Here's a video of the scene. The kill in question occurs at 1:12. Thoughts?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say it's a Reflect variant of Absorb/Dissipate (in fact, if you watch closely in ESB, you can see the bolts from Han's blaster are actually being reflected off of Vader's glove, not absorbed).

Also, a neat trick for linking YouTube videos: if you right click on the screen, it will give you the option of linking to a url with that time stamp, like so:

https://youtu.be/wxL8bVJhXCM?t=52
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