canofhumdingers said:

And regarding threepio’s arm, he has a line (to bb-8 I think) about needing to get his normal arm reattached. Then later we see he has done just that. I agree it’s a little awkward and not very clear, but the pertinent info IS in the film.

Correct, at the point where Leia and Han meet up facing each other, he walks offscreen with BB-8 saying “Yes, I must get my proper arm re-installed”.

It comes across as an off-the-cuff line, and it’s easy to miss as you watch Leia facing Han, but it’s there. And I admit I just never picked up on the fact that he’d gone ahead and done it in that last ‘group’ shot!

However, it still doesn’t explain ‘why’ he had the red arm attached in the first place, so if he’s got it back on at any point during the next movie, I just think it would be quite neat to actually hear the ‘official’ explanation briefly. But if he’s back to the gold one from now on, while it would still be nice to have it explained onscreen, it won’t really matter…as that little snippet of dialogue at least explains the swap by the end of TFA.

(as a little aside, there seems to be a ANOTHER protocol droid very close to C3PO and Leia during that final ‘group’ shot - a RED one as it happens…and if C3PO sticks to his gold arm in future without any kind of explanation about it in the next movie, then I might just as easy imagine that it had something to do with that particular droid, for some unknown reason!)

I return you all back to our regular ROGUE ONE programming.

ImperialFighter said:

(as a little aside, there seems to be a ANOTHER protocol droid very close to C3PO and Leia during that final ‘group’ shot - a RED one as it happens…and if C3PO sticks to his gold arm in future without any kind of explanation about it in the next movie, then I might just as easy imagine that it had something to do with that particular droid, for some unknown reason!)

Bizarre Droid Marriage Customs, are Bizarre.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Bizarre Droid Marriage Customs, are Bizarre.

If this is the new ‘canon’ explanation, that would be bizarre indeed. I’ll wait to see what the sequel brings…

SilverWook said:

I don’t think Threepio’s silver leg in the OT ever got this much scrutiny. 😉

Actually it did…as during the scene where R2 is ‘welding’ the seated one-legged C3PO aboard the Falcon towards the end of ESB, it turns out that for some reason he’s suddenly got a GOLD front shin section on his otherwise SILVER right leg…whereas before and afterwards his right leg has SILVER front and back sections as normal. 😉

I mentioned it on adywan’s ‘ESB:Revisited’ thread yonks ago, but I don’t know if he can do anything about it or not.

Tobar said:

Looks like Lucasfilm is celebrating fan creativity:
Star Wars Go Rogue | Chapter 1

Pretty well done.

I thought fan films weren’t allowed to directly use or reference specific people, places, or things from canon sources anymore.

Opps, sorry – that’s the other Star franchise I was thinking about.

The lighting in that shot of Krennic or whatever his name is looks SO seventies… I love it!

NeverarGreat said:

^^^There’s something about the depth of field in those last two photos that makes the people look like toys. Very strange.

I get what you are saying when I view them on my phone, but I didn’t think that when I saw them on my desktop monitor. It’s that miniature look. None of the background anywhere is in focus

That there’s been a composer switch is a bit surprising but the replacement choice isn’t really.

What this tells us is we’ll probably be getting a very typical JW-sounding SW score. It was also a possibility with Desplat but there was the potential with him to go a different direction. I can’t really complain with this though.

I just hope they don’t use the Force theme (since it’d be out of place with these characters) but somehow I really doubt they won’t.

I’m also hoping the Imperial March is kept to a minimum and they use the original Imperial motif but that’s kind of pie in the sky. I do expect we might hear a new theme for the new villains though, which could be cool.