This is probably a stupid question, but... What is the significance of the pink R2 unit seen at the rebel base? I seem to remember that was some kind of easter egg reference but I forgot what it was.
There was a pink R2 unit at the end of TFA; it might've been in R1, too. It was a tribute to the young daughter of a big figure in the Star Wars cosplay community who died of brain cancer. Wookiepedia has the full story:
I don't remember the pink R2 being in TFA, but it was definitely in R1 (at the Yavin IV base, before the rebels all take off for Scarif).
Two pink astromech droid were in The Clone Wars. R2-KT (the one built for the young girl) was part of the 501st Legion and later was part of Leia's Resistance more than five decades later. The droid left D'Qar before the First Order attacked that base. QT-KT (done that way to not have two droids that could be called "R2" for episodes at a time) was Jedi Knight Aayla Secura's droid and was assigned to missions from time to time, including one depicted in a four episode arc in the fifth season of The Clone Wars.
She's in 2 blink and you'll miss it shots I don't remember any Pink R2 units in Rogue One. The only droid of any significance I can recall other than R2 himself was Chopper.
Most likely the dumbest question I have yet asked in this thread, so bear with me here... Chirrut is in fact Force sensitive, isn't he? I mean, obviously he doesn't have formal Jedi training, but it seems clear that he is attuned to the Force on some level. Not just because of his considerable fighting skill, but also (in Jedha City) he can sense the fact that Jyn is wearing a kyber crystal around her neck long before she gets anywhere near him. And of course Chirrut managed to perfectly dodge all that weapons fire when he was trying to reach the master communications switch on Scarif. I don't see how he could have done that without some Force awareness...
It is highly likely that he was Force sensitive, but probably too low a count for the Jedi to have noticed, or the Jedi were not exclusive on Jehda, and he was taken by others who did not teach the Jedi ways. He was blind after all. And while there are martial arts and training with ones other senses that can allow for such things, he was a bit more than most martial artists might have while blind.
And says something like "The Force moves darkly around one who is going to kill," about Cassian taking Bohdi Rook to find Galen Erso. So, yeah, I don't think there is much doubt.
Chirrut is probably my favorite character in the film. I love how totally chill he is. And I'm all when he died...
I'm going to argue that Chirrut wasn't "sensitive," in the sense people use it of sorting characters into box A or box B. At the time, there was an idea percolating of going back to the way it appeared in the original Star Wars that anyone could learn to feel the Force, that it wasn't just boilerplate that it was a part of all living things. And an awareness of the Force wasn't just making rocks float and controlling people it was, for instance, bobbing and weaving through an asteroid field without being smashed and then finding the exact one with a giant space-worm in it. Chirrut would never have been taken by the Jedi as a child, but he could still learn the ways of the Force. Quiet his mind, trust in its will, but it was the result of study and work, not natural talent or being born different.
I wonder if Jyn having a kyber crystal originally had a function in the story? I loved the "How it should have Ended" version where Chirrut uses it to build a lightsaber.
Hi, it's me again! This time it's about that crashed X-Wing in the middle of Jedha City. Assuming it belonged to Saw's men (judging by its "black & white" markings), it sorta begs the question - how did it get there? How did Saw's men even get ahold of an X-Wing in the first place, and why would they be flying it around inside the city? There is smoke rising from the wreckage, so it seems to be fairly recently crashed... did the set dressers just think it would be cool to have a crashed X-Wing just sitting there, and didn't give it much thought?