A good compromise.
It would be amusing if the final version of the plans was small enough to be broadcast through the shield gate in RO, but the designers just had to include all 17 revisions.
Well, that makes no sense.
Surely a facility like this is able to send very large data packeges with one short burst.
In which case, it is either the data goes through or doesn’t. Does not matter how small it is.
If the shield is up that blocks the carrier wave, it doesn’t, no matter how small the data package is.
On a personal note, it is a broadcast, so every single ship recieves the data, which means there is no need for the rebels to run with that thingy in their hand. 😉
But that Vader scene at the end makes that kind of who cares. Let’s just pretend it wasn’t a broadcast, and was aimed at only one ship. Somehow. For some illogical reason.
I don’t think that the original movies should be updated and changed every time to accomodate a new movie. The new movie shall be fixed IMO.