Having just watched the film on blu-ray, I must say I really am very happy with it the way it is. One of my few complaints is about the score. And by that I just mean I think it should be much louder at times. Unlike a lot of people here, I think the score itself is fantastic.

One thing that did catch my eye, though, is the line in the crawl: “With the support of the REPUBLIC, General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE.” Is that really the case? The relationship between the two was admittedly ambiguous in this film. And that’s something I’m less critical about after considering that the state of the senate is similarly mostly glossed over in the first Star Wars film.

However, the deleted scenes and novelization and various other canon sources were painting a picture of the Resistance operating below the Republic’s radar. And in fact, the Republic was well on its way toward corruption to the point that Leia considered it too dangerous to visit the senate in person. So I had to re-read that crawl line twice to make sure it didn’t say “Without the support of the REPUBLIC,”. What gives? Were they just trying to simplify things?