I’m becoming concerned that this isn’t going to be as stand-alone as I’ve been hoping. Star Wars, under and because of Lucas, has long since become a convoluted, shrunken universe, incestuous mess. That’s what turned me away from the film/Lucas franchise and into the Daley and Zahn EU. New characters, new storylines, new worlds.
I understand Rogue One can’t be completely free of 1983-2005, but it now looks to be shaping up as some sort of Kumbaya for all the fractured fan bases.
It looks like it’s becoming the new episode 3. In that the resolution is mentioned in the crawl of episode IV and it seems to belong more to the world of the OT without totally dismissing the prequels.
It’s strange you should say this as it’s been a thought that is on my mind this whole not having an opening crawl business and also Episode VII how the hell will the crawl be for Episode VIII with that weird cliff hanger ending?
Are we seeing a new tradition beginning to unfold in the spirit of those old TV Serials (Last Week on Star Wars…)?
Will opening crawls now tell us what happened in last weeks episode?
Episode VIII does not seem to be able to do anymore in it’s opening crawl than recite what happened in Episode VII and Episode IV tells us what happened in Rogue One.
Just Saying The original films always left a gap to ponder but it seems no more gaps now. And Rogue one if it does not have a crawl then we don’t get the important back story.