Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-31 (Saturday)

On Jun 2, 2025 at 7:47:22 AM PDT, "EGK" <memyself@null.net> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 05:23:19 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

On Jun 1, 2025 at 4:17:24 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

 On 6/1/25 4:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
 

  On Jun 1, 2025 at 2:25:17 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
 wrote:

 
       And, of course, Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa here, while Bratt plays
  him in Andor.

 
  So Felicity Jones couldn't make it back as Jyn Erso? I haven't finished the
  show yet, but I've heard about the ROGUE ONE cameos and was hoping to see
 Jyn
  again. She's always been one of my favorite female action lead characters,
  like Ripley and Sarah Connor. She's smart and capable without having to
 resort
  to the usual nonsense of watching her beat up men three times her size.

 
 Unfortunately, there would be no in-universe justification for Jyn to
 show up in "Andor" - she and Cassian had clearly never met before "Rogue
 One", and in fact at the film's open she's in jail (presumably for some
 time?).

 
Sure, they couldn't have her and Andor in scenes together, but they could
have
put together some storyline about the Rebellion discovering Erso had a
daughter and tracking her down, finding out she was going by Leeann Halleck,
trying to grab her, only to have her fight back and cause a huge public
disturbance. The Rebels get away but she's arrested and sent to the labor
camp
where we find her in ROGUE ONE. She couldn't have been there too long. She
didn't look like she'd been at hard labor for very long, if at all.

 
They only become aware of Galen Erso at the very end of Andor.  That's what
creates the tie-in to Rogue One.   I suppose they could have had a cameo of
Jyn in jail or shown her leaving Saw Gerrera's group.

They should have added this scene, too!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HYzAjUTlCMI

Tarkin is the only Imperial officer in STAR WARS canon who could give Vader
shit without having to worry about being choked out.