Yeah i don't get why you guys expect these movies to be some kind of epic narrative. The writing in SW has always been pretty generic. SW has always been about the ohhs and ahhhs.
Episode VIII was cool to look at but thats about it.
Much like the rest of the SW movies. Cool to look at but beyond that there isn't really anything special or unique about the story telling.
Star Wars is note for note another version of "the hero's journey" and it was no accident. Lucas straight up used that as a storytelling guide. It's always been a little cheesy, campy and cliche. It's not that unique of a story. None of that is the problem with rouge one.
Story wise it did nothing. It added very little of value to the SW universe.
We already knew Vader was a bad ass, so the best scene in the whole movie, cool as it was, did nothing new. Overall we learned the back story of a ship builder who made the plans to a death star that was blown up on film 20 or 30 years ago. Pointless. At least The Force Awakens, while basically being a nostalgic soft reboot, still fleshed out and developed a few new characters. It took existing characters, added some new ones, and progressed the story some.
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Star Wars is note for note another version of "the hero's journey" and it was no accident. Lucas straight up used that as a storytelling guide. It's always been a little cheesy, campy and cliche. It's not that unique of a story. None of that is the problem with rouge one.
Story wise it did nothing. It added very little of value to the SW universe.
We already knew Vader was a bad ass, so the best scene in the whole movie, cool as it was, did nothing new. Overall we learned the back story of a ship builder who made the plans to a death star that was blown up on film 20 or 30 years ago. Pointless. At least The Force Awakens, while basically being a nostalgic soft reboot, still fleshed out and developed a few new characters. It took existing characters, added some new ones, and progressed the story some.