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In the movie "Rogue One" (A very excellent Star Wars movie) they have a scene where they go into a data vault and get the plans, and have to use a giant robot to retrieve the tapes.  I thought it was an awesome homage to the original movies mention of "stolen data tapes".

Isn't Rogue One mostly the same people from Andor?  It's been years since I saw it, but didn't it lack the Force and light sabers and all the stuff you don't like about Andor?  

Hulu has it right now.  Might need to rewatch it.  I remember enjoying it, while thinking it was fairly forgettable. 

I know, I know.......the TV/movie thread is over there --->

I'm not going to go into any detail beyond what's been publicly announced (for obvious reasons), but I think tech nerds would be interested this...

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So, someone's finally trying to reproduce what Superman was doing nearly 50 years ago?

Isn't Rogue One mostly the same people from Andor?  It's been years since I saw it, but didn't it lack the Force and light sabers and all the stuff you don't like about Andor? 

Andor is a prequel to Rogue 1.  What it lacked in Force wielding and light sabers (it had them) was made up for with a really awesome Space Battle, some of which was original footage from the 1977 original that didn't make it into that movie.  

I generally liked the Force Awakens, but I hated the next two.  And as they've aged, I've hated them more. 

Lots of people feel that way.  Probably most people feel that way if I had to guess, at least, among people that even liked TFA at all.

Personally I thought the next two were fine.  They lacked a coherent story arc due to all of the director/script shuffling at Disney, which is a shame because that should have been requirement #1.  Disney certainly approached the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a much more deliberate way, and there's no reason they couldn't have done the same for Star Wars.

But overall I still felt like each of them had the necessary story elements to be a proper Star Wars movie.  If nothing else I think the writing and dialog were better than most of the first 6 movies.  And it probably helped that 7-8-9 are, to my kids, the same as the OG trilogy was, to me.  This is their Star Wars, and watching it through their eyes, was a lot of fun for me.

But in general I've found I'm much kinder to 1-2-3 and 7-8-9, than are most folks.  And I'm fine with that.  The movies are supposed to be entertainment, they're supposed to be fun, and I enjoyed them all for what they were.

Yeah, the kids of the early 2000s-- which include my nephews-- absolutely loved the prequel trilogy.  My youngest nephew born in 1990, was a huge Jar Jar Binks fan.  Had the action figure, the plush stuffy, the PJs, the whole deal.

And my kids liked the prequels just fine, and really grew up with 7-8-9.  They were 7 and 9 when The Force Awakens came out. 

I just roll me eyes at all of the gate-keeping canon-invoking dipshits who insist on hating everything that came out after The Empire Strikes Back.  Not sure how they call themselves Star Wars fans when they don't seem to actually like any of it.