That’s the blueprint when you can’t plan. They did have the other kind of chances, and I also loved how the Henry V speech explicitly set that out, explained it, revealed the technique of sacrifice: “ We’ll take the next chance, and the next, on and on until we win, or the chances are spent.” When you can’t do anything else, that is exactly what you have to do. For one, maybe tangential thing, I liked how this is structurally a completely different sacrifice than the one Sam is talking about when he says “…folks had lots of chances to turn back, Mr Frodo, but they didn’t.” The crew of Rogue One had no chances to turn back, not once after they set foot on the planet. There is just so much to appreciate about how that sacrifice was built that I’m having trouble ordering my thoughts and getting them down. The impact of that crew’s death–a death that, in itself, a direct impact of their actions–was, well, impact this. (Ideally, something beyond “my love was shut in a refrigerator so Now I Must Seek Vengeance,” of course.) (For one thing, a perfectly valid audience/reader feeling at that kind of manipulation can and will be “pissed off.”) If a character dies, it was argued, that must have some real impact on the other characters. Overall, the conclusion was that if a death is written in there in order to make the audience/reader feel something, that is Doing It Wrong, whether it succeeds or not.
In the prehistoric times, during the ill-fated, ill-advised first attempt to make Star Wars dark-and-edgy, there was a discussion on USENET about character deaths. It wasn’t sorrow that made me cry, it was joy and catharsis.īut I’m fairly certain that the next time I see it (oh yes there will be a next time are you kidding) I will be crying for the crew of Rogue One, because of course I will be. …because they didn’t have the time, it turns out, that’s why. (Red Six is Porkins.) Why is Red Five open? Granted someone was shot down, why didn’t they shuffle the designations around? And when Luke joins the Red Squadron, his callsign is not the end of the sequence he’s not Red Thirteen, but Red Five.
After the Hoth base is evacuated, everyone scatters for months before they can rendezvous with the rest of the Rebel Fleet again, and we don’t know what happened to anyone except Our Three Heroes (and Chewie, C-3PO and R2-D2) during that time. The main sequence is the saga, the legend, the places where everything is larger than life.īut many Bothans die to get those plans the second time, and we don’t get to see them, the manner of their death. The main sequence is what starts it, what gives it shape. The main sequence is of course important. The stories between the lines, the stories in the next room, the stories not told, the people not on center-stage. That is where we all went to live, where we came together. This is why my corner of the fandom even existed.”Īnd as I said those things, and wept, I was thinking of Will, and of Kristy, and of Allison, and James, and of Tim and Mike and Aaron, and of so many others. This is why I am a part of the fandom, why I took that name upon myself. This is why I am a Star Wars fan, at the very core. The friend I’d gone to see it with turned around to console me, and I told her that I wasn’t crying because of. It wasn’t what happened, not the events, happy or sad. : Rogue One cut to “Directed by: Gareth Edwards,” the Main Theme that had been conspicuously missing from the beginning crashed in, and I started crying. Inevitably, we each have lots to say, and the other just wants to hear it. : We’ll have a bit less intercutting this time around, too. : Or not, I’ll repeat that warning: You don’t want to be spoiled for this. And you don’t want to be spoiled for this. : This review will contain SPOILERS FOR ROGUE ONE. : Hello, gentlebeings, and welcome to this week’s Force Visions, wherein I’ve found where I live.
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