![]() ![]() Did the movie originally have an entirely different ending where they escaped? Or, at least, had met a different end? Perhaps they met Krennic outside of the base and had a different showdown, which I suspect I might have liked more. As ScreenCrush has pointed out, there are scenes in trailers for Rogue One that not only aren’t in the finished movie, but don’t even make sense in the context of the finished movie, including Jyn and Cassian out of disguise, running through both the Imperial base and also the fight on Scarif’s surface. But, when it comes to the ending, I wonder how many of my problems with the ending stem from the now-infamous reshoots, which reportedly changed the ending significantly. ![]() McMillan: That’s a really good point I was very conscious of the kids in the screening I was at, not least of all because they seemed disinterested until the second half of the movie. If anything, Star Wars does need to be kid-friendly, so striking a soft enough tone was key. Anecdotally, a friend told me his young daughter liked the movie - and I think that might not have been the case had the deaths been any darker. Bodhi’s death was the weakest to me, but when I watched the movie a second time, I felt the other deaths even more, including K-2SO’s. They’d done their duty - and it was OK that they were going to die. I’m not sure what I expected, but it … wasn’t this … ?Ĭouch: I appreciated that Jyn and Cassian felt peace at the end of their lives. ( Chirrut and Baze OTP of the movie, I think everyone can agree, right?) Bodhi’s death seemed rushed, K-2SO’s felt unfinished (am I the only one who felt like Alan Tudyk needed to have one last line as we saw his eyes flicker into darkness?) and the apocalyptic hug for Jyn and Cassian seemed like an unearned cliche. A large part of my problem was that I didn’t really feel anything about any of the deaths with the exception of Chirrut’s, and that is mostly because of the great scene Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen had as Baze watched him die. ![]() McMillan: I really didn’t, and it’s not just because I’m dead inside and can find no joy in anything. But I’m sensing you didn’t get as much out of our heroes’ sacrifices as I did? With Alderaan, millions of voices cry out, but we don’t see them - and the Starkiller Base in Force Awakens destroys multiple planets, but we don’t really know why we should care other than that it destroyed multiple planets. The ending also gives us the best understanding of the consequences of the Death Star. Plus, the shot of Krennic seeing the terror of his life’s work instantly became one of my favorite Star Wars images. I joke that you are grouchier than me when it comes to these matters - so I thought you’d be thrilled all of the heroes died! We predicted it, but I didn’t actually think Disney would have the guts to kill off its characters - and the way they did so was quite beautiful. ![]()
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