It is kind of odd that construction of the Death Star took so long and was started so early. Even George acknowledged that it didn’t quite make sense for it to be under construction already at the end of RotS, but he included it because he wanted to tie the story neatly together and to convey what sort of regime the Empire was going to be, and the Death Star was a perfect symbol of that. But the more they flesh out the first Death Star’s construction and build up to its completion, the more abrupt the second one feels, by comparison.

I’ve always wanted a Star Wars movie or show with a nonhuman protagonist, so I’d be down for a Bothan spies show.