Threepio and Artoo being at the Rebel base makes sense if Bail Organa is there. There’s nothing to contradict them not having been to the Yavin system before.
Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba being on Jedha was pushing it. Had they simply been in the foreground or background of a crowd scene instead of calling attention to them would have been better.Exactly, and the same goes for R2 and 3PO. Calling attention to then is just a distraction from the plot to say, “Remember these guys?” I don’t mind Easter eggs, I just don’t like it when films stop in order to draw my attention to things that are exciting purely because they were in other, better films.
The problem that reared it’s ugly head there was that R2 and 3P0 were never meant to be on raddus ship but on the Tantive (and the Tantive was not part of or inside Raddus ship). It would have just had the Blockade runner receiving the transmission and going to hyperspace. Nothing too fancy.
so because of all the retro fitting it made it appear like they were just shoved in the film, when before the film was altered it probably made much more sense in the first cut of the film.
It’s pretty stupid to try and mess with films after they have been filmed in “big ways” unless you re-shoot the whole lot pertaining to the new story. A directors Vision is worth nothing to most of these studios. It’s the studios vision that matters.
But it’s also poor planning with an urge to make mega bucks quick with the needle swinging to forgettable content rather than memorable.