As far as stylistic format departure goes we now are heading for “Like any other movie would do it” bog standard so if you want / need labels on stuff. To me it’s not been thought through well enough to convey the information well enough to avoid the labels. It’s a small but very significant loss in how one should tell a Star Wars Story.
Whats next? “Memento Star Wars” tell it in reverse chronological order?
When they said Rogue one won’t have an opening crawl they should have also added it will have captions for the planets do away with the wipes and the the format will be nothing like how Star Wars is normally. Get rid of A long time ago in a galaxy far far away while you are at it. Do we really need the end credits also?
You really need to calm down. It’s a stylistic choice, plain and simple. I bet you anything if you removed those planet headers it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. Putting the word “Jedha” on the screen, for instance, isn’t going to tell you jack shit. All the necessary information will be conveyed otherwise, I’m sure.
As with the removal of the crawl (which, wait a second, the crawl is all about conveying information with text? at least be fucking consistent in your complaints) and the absence of wipes, this is a pure presentational change that will do much to give the film a different feel. I’m sorry that you can’t handle it but the fact that this film will be a huge stylistic departure from the saga films has been advertised since day one. Maybe you’ve had your fingers in your ears for the last couple years, but this has always been the case. Hope you can get over yourself in time for the film’s premiere.