Rogue One questions

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- Mon Mothma didn't know that General Draven had ordered Cassian to kill, rather than extract, Galen Erso, did she? Why would he go behind her back like that? She seemed to value Galen's importance; if Cassian HAD killed him and she found out, she'd be pissed...

- What eventually happens to Draven? He's not around in ANH...

- In the scene with the rebel council, is General Dodonna (from ANH) there? There's a man who looks like Dodonna (we see him talking to Jyn), but he's not wearing any rank insignia.

- Why does Captain Antilles wear an Admiral's insignia? (five blue pips)

- We finally hear Rebel personnel speaking with UK accents. Has the reverse ever happened? (meaning, Imperial or First Order personnel talking American)

- Why does the Empire destroy their own base at Scarif? The battle had pretty much ended by that point, hadn't it?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

There were a couple of Imperials in season 2 of The Mandalorian with American accents. I can’t recall if there were other instances before that though.

 

[The Wormhole]

Why would he go behind her back like that?

He sees a practical need for Galen Erso to die and knew that Mon Mothma would disapprove.

What eventually happens to Draven? He's not around in ANH...

In the comics, he continues to be around in the ongoing series, though he doesn't live down the fact that Rogue One was right and he was one of the more vocal ones against them. He eventually tries to redeem himself by taking on a Stormtrooper special ops team to buy enough time for everyone else to escape, and is killed in the process.

In the scene with the rebel council, is General Dodonna (from ANH) there? There's a man who looks like Dodonna (we see him talking to Jyn), but he's not wearing any rank insignia.

Yes, that's Dodonna.

Why does the Empire destroy their own base at Scarif? The battle had pretty much ended by that point, hadn't it?

They wanted to prevent anyone else from stealing the schematics of the Death Star, so they destroyed Scarif to do so.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They wanted to prevent anyone else from stealing the schematics of the Death Star, so they destroyed Scarif to do so.

I hope they had backups for all the info they had stored there...

 

[fireproof78]

Mon Mothma didn't know that General Draven had ordered Cassian to kill, rather than extract, Galen Erso, did she? Why would he go behind her back like that? She seemed to value Galen's importance; if Cassian HAD killed him and she found out, she'd be pissed...

Galen was too much of a risk to keep alive if he could not be extracted. If he revealed the weakness the Empire could repair it before the Rebels could exploit it.

In the scene with the rebel council, is General Dodonna (from ANH) there? There's a man who looks like Dodonna (we see him talking to Jyn), but he's not wearing any rank insignia.

He is,

Why does Captain Antilles wear an Admiral's insignia? (five blue pips)

He may be an admiral in rank, but addressed as captain due to commanding a ship. However, his rank insignia has always been that before the actual interpretation of the ranks was established.

We finally hear Rebel personnel speaking with UK accents. Has the reverse ever happened? (meaning, Imperial or First Order personnel talking American)

I think Biker Scouts on Endor did, though I could be misremembering.

I hope they had backups for all the info they had stored there...

Probably not.

 

[The Wormhole]

I hope they had backups for all the info they had stored there...

They probably didn't.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think Biker Scouts on Endor did, though I could be misremembering.

And most of the Stormtroopers speak American as well. I forgot about them.

 

[JD]

Didn't John Boyega do an American accent for Finn?

 

[David cgc]

- Why does the Empire destroy their own base at Scarif? The battle had pretty much ended by that point, hadn't it?

Aside from preventing any Rebels on the ground from transmitting or escaping with the plans for the Death Star, Tarkin also didn't mind seizing the excuse to kill Krennic even if it was no longer fully necessary to destroy the base to deny it to the Rebels. It's also been theorized that the strike was aimed to minimize infrastructure damage; the superlaser goes straight through the main transmitter, but the actual impact point on the planet is some distance away, and under water. It could be that while it incinerated anyone on the surface and within the tower, some amount of the actual data might've been salvageable.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Didn't John Boyega do an American accent for Finn?

He did, but IIRC Finn had already gone rogue by the time we actually hear him speak.

 

[Maurice]

And most of the Stormtroopers speak American as well. I forgot about them.

Terry McGovern (original voice of Launchpad McQuakck) did the voice of the "These aren't the droids we're looking for," trooper and he sure as heck has an American accent...I know because I know him.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Admiral Motti (General Motti in the end credits) has always sounded American enough to me, and Richard LeParmentier is as American as they come.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just thought of another one:

When the stolen Imperial shuttle is at the Yavin IV base, why is it unguarded? If no one's allowed on board, why are the Rogue One members able to just waltz in and steal it?

 

[Reverend]

Yeah, the general pattern was that the Imperial & First Order officers all had English accents, while the troopers all had American accents. Don't know if that was a deliberate choice.

 

[fireproof78]

Just thought of another one:

When the stolen Imperial shuttle is at the Yavin IV base, why is it unguarded? If no one's allowed on board, why are the Rogue One members able to just waltz in and steal it?

Captain Andor has the Intelligence clout to get aboard, and shooting down a leaving ship isn't going to do wonders for morale of the fragile alliance.

Yeah, the general pattern was that the Imperial & First Order officers all had English accents, while the troopers all had American accents. Don't know if that was a deliberate choice.

I wonder if the troopers were due to where sound mixing was done?

 

[Ithekro]

The Imperial Officers are meant to be upper class. Sometime Core world born citizens. The Troopers and other enlisted tend to be Rimward or lower class citizens and conscripts. That mixed with a lot of the shoots for Imperial ships and base being done in England, while location shots of planets were their would be joe troopers or such would be anywhere else on the planet (and sometimes requiring a due over in post....in California), that makes sense, that the officers all tend to have British accents (typical Royal Navy officer types or probably more likely, British non-German accents for Nazi officers), while the voice overs are whatever Lucasfilm can get for a dub in California, so Americans.

 

[Reverend]

Accents in Star Wars never made total sense. I mean, Jedi are supposedly all raised not just on Coruscant, but all *in the same building*, and yet many of them have wildly differing accents. I mean really speaking, Aayla Secura should not sound French/Rylothian. Supposedly the Coruscanti accent is supposed to be British RP, and yet none of the native humans we've seen (Letta Turmond and the Martez sisters) either sound like that or even alike!

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, the general pattern was that the Imperial & First Order officers all had English accents, while the troopers all had American accents. Don't know if that was a deliberate choice.

At the very least, Finn's American accent was because John Boyega felt that accent best suited the character.

 

[Shawnster]

He may be an admiral in rank, but addressed as captain due to commanding a ship. However, his rank insignia has always been that before the actual interpretation of the ranks was established.

What were his previous appearances /depictions?

 

[fireproof78]

What were his previous appearances /depictions?

Well, his first appearance was in A New Hope as the captain of Leia's ship. He was also in Revenge of the Sith but not in a Rebel uniform for obvious reasons. His rank insignia appears to be the same in A New Hope as in Rogue One.