Rogue One: A Star Wars Story : So is there a point to this ending???? (

Spoilers obviously

The ending was completely unexpected and doesn't fit with the comic tone present in much of the movie. I didn't see a point in killing off EVERY single character. There was no reason why Jyn and Cassian couldn't have escaped at the end the way they escaped the desert planet.

So they complete their mission only to have the Death Star arrive and kill them?

They could have gone a different path, as they originally had planned.

But I think it's a most excellent story of self sacrifice for the greater good. Not unusual in a war setting when you think about the thousands of soldiers and civilians who die every day for a cause they believe in.

And then it's the obvious complaining that would occour if they had lived, about them not appearing in the original trilogy etc. And as much as I hate seeing heroes of movies die, their deaths give A New Hope a whole new emotional depth that wasn't there before.

So all in all, I think they did the right choice.

Their beliefs and their struggle against the Empire to restore hope to the galaxy was worth sacrificing their own lives.

That's the point to the ending.

How could anyone miss that?

1. The series is called "Star WARS". War is not pretty. People die.

2. Rogue one is the prequel to the original trilogy, which begins in a rather dark place with the Empire burning off people's flesh and blowing up planets for petty reasons, while the alliance is a puny group of about 30 star pilots. Rogue one shows us why the rebel alliance is so small.

3. the happy ending comes later, when the war ends in Return of the Jedi. Rogue one only served to enhance that happy ending, as it shows the alliance being able to destroy the death star brought hope back to the galaxy and thus helped them get more people to rally around their cause. (in fact, I'm actually considering referring to "Star Wars" as "A New Hope" again in light of Rogue One, not the "prequels")


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The "Civil War" in the Marvel movie is referring to the rift that forms between The Avengers, it wasn't a full scale war.


Star Wars is a full scaled war.


also, Captain America: Winter Soldier was pretty damn brutal.

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If it didn't end that way, people would be bitching about it being too "Disneyfied" or something.

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There was no reason why Jyn and Cassian couldn't have escaped at the end the way they escaped the desert planet.

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well, aside from the fact that every fan would wonder why Jyn and Cassia (two die hard rebels) would become cowards and disappear from a fight they both felt so passionately about

They had to die. There was no other option.

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I didn't see a point in killing off EVERY single character.

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"Star Wars" (ANH) established that no one in the RA knew about the pre-engineered weakness that Galen Erso secretly planted. They had to work it out for themselves because everyone who knew about it was killed prior to the events of the Battle of Yavin at the end of ANH. If any one of them survived, that would be problematic because they then should have alerted the RA high command on Yavin that the plans contained a specific design flaw that could be taken advantage of. That did not happen, ergo, all of them had to die.

I thought the point of this ending was that they did send the Death Star plans out and Princess Leia received them, and that allowed Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Star in A New Hope.

Yes its a "war movie" but even Saving Private Ryan kept one guy from that platoon alive at the end. So this movie ends in a worse massacre of the main heroes than even one of the most legendary war movies ever made. Also the tone in most of this film is rather light so the dark ending makes even less sense.

The dominant tone of the film is not light, it's dark. There is some light tone infused, but nowhere near enough to balance out the film's dark tone.

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I thought the point of this ending was that they did send the Death Star plans out and Princess Leia received them, and that allowed Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Star in A New Hope.

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That's not the point of the ending. What I posted earlier is the point. None of them could survive because of the events that were established by "Star Wars" 40 years ago. No one was left to tell the Alliance about Erso's pre-engineered flaw. They had to find it through analyzing the plans.

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Also the tone in most of this film is rather light

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Are you sure you saw "Rogue One?" Seriously, check your ticket stub because there was very little that was "light" in R1. K2SO was comic relief but this film had more graphic battle scenes than any SW film except "Revenge of the Sith." Even TFA wasn't as violent.

Exactly. Hamlet has more laughs.

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doesn't fit with the comic tone present in much of the movie

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Were we watching the same movie? What "comic tone"?

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So they complete their mission only to have the Death Star arrive and kill them?

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That's what the Death Star does. That's all it does.

Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?

Yeah one might as well say Han's death in TFA is out of tone with all those cute Rey/Finn moments throughout most of TFA. Oh wait, TFA starts with a classic Imperial massacre, and R1 starts with the death of the hero's mom.