yoshif8tures said:
i would also cut the pep talk he had with the imperial tech before he stole the fighter since it didn’t really add anything important.

I think the scene itself is fine just to show how he got there (he had an insider). I would even leave, just a SMALL portion of the pep talk in there, like the “was it worth it?” line. That was okay. But yeah, it was like 2 to 4 minutes? I’ll cut it to 40 seconds. I think in a way, it also shows Cassian’s nature. He is giving her the pep talk so she does her job. But if it became clear she was threatening the operation, I think we all know what he would do.

Also cut the imps showing a retro video since it was too on the nose n@zi. Yes we know the imps are space versions, but flat out copying them is just too earthy for me.

Agreed, cringe. I could barely watch. I liked the rest of the meeting sequence otherwise.

I think almost all portrayals of “media” in Star Wars have been pretty much failures. I suspect there is a good reason Lucas DIDNT show us equivalents of TV/radio/etc. Star Wars doesnt NEED those things, even if people think they make sense in context. There isn’t one instance i can think of where an author or screenwriter has portrayed media in SW a way that isn’t cringy and unimmersive.