Spoilers Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Grading & Discussion
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Kinda agreed. I don't hate the place names but they weren't necessary or anything. You had the overcast planet, the desert planet, the rain planet...
So, Star Wars staples then.Kinda agreed. I don't hate the place names but they weren't necessary or anything. You had the overcast planet, the desert planet, the rain planet...
Fun fact: for the longest time I thought "Dantooine" was also a desert planet.
Hmm. I don't remember seeing Dantooine in R1 or any other movie. According to Wookieepedia, it never made it into R1, or into any other movie, other than in dialogue. How do we know what it looks like?
Strictly speaking, we still don't.
However in the EU I think it's always been described as some variation of "windy grasslands type planet." The earliest depiction I'm aware of is here in the old 'Tales of the Jedi' comic, in which it's shown to also be mountainous and replete with old ruins.
The other two prominent places it showed up was in Kotor, (which had it as being pretty much the McQuarrie concept art version of Alderaan/Aquilae (later used as the inspiration for Lothal), and the Clone Wars microseries which uses more or less the same idea.
I think if it ever ends up being depicting it'll probably still look more or less the same. I would note however that the idea that it's inhabited by farmers around the time of ANH should be nixed. Since SWR's second season the Rebellion have made a point not to establish bases on inhabited worlds. Doubly so considering Leia gave the planet up and the idea that she'd sacrifice innocent lives on the vain hope it'd spare Alderaan just isn't in character.
My preference is for it to be an abandoned world like Yavin 4, with old ruins and maybe even an ancient Jedi temple as a nod to KotOR.
Indeed! If her smile of relief struck me as a bit too cheerful, and a bit out of character, condemning an inhabited planet to save her adopted homeworld would be A LOT out of character.
This would have the added bonus of being supported by canon, since there was a mention in TCW ('Brain Invaders' IIRC) of Windu being off fighting on Dantooine.
There's a couple ways to approach it, the simplest being that it's a remote, otherwise unimportant world that happens to have been in a good strategic position during the war. Like one of those random desolate hills in wars throughout history that generals expend hundreds of lives to secure because it's somehow vital to the larger strategy, but as soon as that campaign is done it's abandoned and goes back to being a patch of dirt in the middle of nowhere.
Another is to say it was once home to a small farming colony that was wiped out and/or forcibly relocated in the Clone Wars due to Separatist action. If one wants to go the whole hog then I'd say why not also throw in the long abandoned Jedi Temple and some mysterious pre-Republic ruins?
Incidentally, I found a more representative panel from the Dark Horse comic.
Possibly, but I honestly doubt such a one exists in this particular case.
"I'm a leaf on the wind!"
"all too easy!"
I'm sure this is old news for some, but I find it funny that they accidentally revealed no suit Vader in a Rogue One featurette a couple weeks before it hit theatres. I wonder how they missed that, or they didn't care lol. Hes just in the background, not the focus of any of the parts of the featurette.
From this video
Have some concept art for him too
https://i.redd.it/mm5aow93khky.jpg
From this video
Have some concept art for him too
https://i.redd.it/mm5aow93khky.jpg
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