actually imagine the rogue one crew being honored in the same way han and luke were at the end of a new hope. imagine a big ceremony with the princess and mon mothma and all the soldiers and they just lay forty medals on the steps, one for each rebel who died and for the strays they picked up on the way
imagine luke being there and seeing the force ghosts of chirrut and jyn as they are laid to rest finally, and he’s there to honor their sacrifice and understand that it wasn’t him who really took down the death star that it was the original rogue one that he is their legacy
han can sense the presence of the force ghosts but doesn’t know what it means. it’s that moment, looking at those medals given to the dead rebels that he really understands this cause is worth dying for
leia knows who these people are and has seen them leave for missions and return only this time they left and didn’t come back and to her the only way to truly honor that sacrifice is to see the last remnants of the empire destroyed which is why she is still fighting the first order in the force awakens
just imagine the rogue one legacy
the squadron named in their honor
old pilots telling the new recruits why there’s no “rogue one” that flies under rogue leader
While Rogue One was being promoted (and protested) as a female-led sci-fi blockbuster, its trailers remained noticeably male-dominated. Now, we can confirm it features the worst gender imbalance since the original Star Wars trilogy.
We counted seven women among the dozens of speaking roles in Rogue One, massively outnumbered by armies of men. There’s the main character Jyn Erso, obviously. Then there are two minor supporting characters (Rebel leader Mon Mothma, and Jyn’s dead mother), and four more with a couple of lines of dialogue each.
By comparison, there are eight or nine male characters just in the main cast, filling the entire Rogue One team and all of the villain roles. On top of that, there’s at least another 20 male rebels, politicians, and Empire officers with speaking roles in the supporting cast, plus significant cameos like Darth Vader and Bail Organa. Even the background extras are men, exceeding the typical 17 percent ratio for women in Hollywood crowd scenes.
I love that they showed so many ways to rebel against a fascist Empire, both in the sense that it was a realistic portrayal of the things that people do in desperate situations and in the sense that it showed you all the ways you can resist like
You’re a brilliant scientist being told to do horrific things? Run the fuck away. They track you down and threaten you and your family? Pretend to give in and then find a way to blow it all to shit from the inside. Do not collaborate. Do not collaborate.
Rebels who do dirty things to win and have been doing dirty things their whole damn lives like happens in real life
Rebels who have lost their way and become extremists like people do in real life
Very real infighting about how to fight back, what chances to take, whether to fight or wait
You’re just a fucking cargo pilot (or a Stormtrooper) and a nobody and maybe you’ve been given orders but you are an individual with a moral conscience so when you see a chance you take it you do not continue to collaborate
You think it’s easy to ignore the suffering if you keep your head down, it’s easy to see the Imperial flag flying if you just avoid looking at it, and maybe you’re disillusioned or hurt but that’s not an excuse and you realize this is a cause worth fighting for, worth dying for
You know you’re about to die a terrible death in a fucking hallway but you still get the intelligence out because the cause is bigger than you
The thing that truly kills me about the scene where Baze prays to the Force as Chirrut dies is that the whole movie we’re shown that Baze doesn’t not believe in the Force at all he even rolls his eyes at every mention of it but as soon as Chirrut express the possibility that they might see each other again trough the Force, Baze starts believing…
