First off, I’ve always loved the idea that Geonosis is a dead planet now. I think it was an interesting step to take to completely erase an entire species from the galaxy, especially one that we know so well. Usually people are afraid to do that, but I like that they went for it. Geez, I was actually feeling bad for them. Poor Klik-Klak. I like that he’s probably trying to say “Death Star” with his writings, but there are several items consisting of “circles within circles” in the episode. It’s a shame having read Vader beforehand and knowing what happens to the queen as well, heh. Poor guys can’t catch a break.
“He’s no Skywalker” is a great line, and it’s neat to see Kanan really moving more into the Force as well. That bridge is the biggest thing we’ve seen moved with the Force in awhile, I think.
They did a good job capturing Forrest’s likeness as Saw (bringing him back for the voice helped a lot), as well as bridging the gap between the Clone Wars Saw and the Rogue One Saw. It’s interesting to see him with the fire and the passion he had during the Clone Wars. You can really see where he develops the fanaticism and extremism and distrust of the other Rebels they talk about in Rogue One, and it’s neat that they acknowledge that not all Rebels are created equally.
A sandstorm “clogging the barrels” of the Ghost is pretty spurious, but whatever. Sabine’s line about it was a nice little grin moment, too (but I could have gone without the reuse of “that’ll end this debate real quick” - okay, we get it. It’s Star Wars. =P)
The Rocket Troopers were neat, but I’m a bit miffed that they didn’t just go with the design from Battlefront. They’re pretty much the same thing! Sabine is getting to be pretty cool herself too.
I also noticed Hera the same dots on her shoulder as Cassian does in Rogue One so I assume the two vertical green dots are for captains in the Rebellion rank system.