Rogue One came out in 2016, next year it will be ten years since its release.

When I first saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, my mind was reeling with questions afterwards.
It wasn't lost on me that we entered the story in the middle, and I was hungry for backstory, and one of the things I wondered about was the events that allowed the Rebels to get the plans for the Death Star. I thought it would make a great movie, but then I remembered that everybody involved died while stealing it, and a movie where all the heroes die is never going to be made.
So I was shocked decades later, when Rogue One was released to tell that story after all.

The scene where Jyn tells Cassian that he's basically a stormtrooper because he's willing to kill her father for the rebellion frames her as correct and it's such 2016 lib shit that it actually damages the 'evergreen' or 'timeless' quality you want in a fantasy movie
- Andor makes her look like an idiot so good job Andor
  
  Is Jyn in Andor?
- Its also an last minute addition by gilroy. OG mads mickelsson dies because draven sends in bombers because he believes the mission has failed.

I actually kinda like Rogue One but the main thing I remember about the movie is that when they properly introduce the blind monk character, Chirrut Îmwe, it's in the middle of a fight and he shows up to knock out stormtroopers with his walking stick. And at first it's sort of cool, but then it goes on forever, and it starts to feel silly, and you can feel the cracks in the choreography because you start to think "surely one of these guys would just shoot him in the back" and then the character is just there and basically doesn't do or say anything of significance until his death scene. Sort of the problem of the entire movie in microcosm. Lots of interesting ideas for characters that don't get much to do or say. Even the best fleshed out character, Jyn, feels contradictory and ultimately thinly characterized.
As I always say, the novelization is much better.
- The whole knocking Stormtroopers out with melee attacks looked so silly to me. Even if they were canonically wearing the movie set armor that would at least protect them from blunt attacks

https://watch30rockonline.cc/ is one of my favorite website, I like just clicking random episode and watch 30 rock out of context. However, whenever S1 episode came out and it says "18 years ago" it feels depressing

Astonishingly odd move to be honest to not have originally built up the characters with the Andor series before doing the events that happened there. Harder to care for characters you just meet in an already big universe.
- tbf, the whole media landscape was way different back when Rogue One came out. it wouldn't be for another 5+ years that cinematic universes connecting tens of movies and multiple tv series would be the norm. Mandalorian was the first live action star wars, and it only started in 2019
- Marvel was still in his infancy with their breakthrough of the bazillion tie-in movies and media, where to understand that movie you need to watch 20 others first.
  
  They'd already released 15 of the MCU films by that point

And its still a piece of shit
- The trailer vs the end product is truly something. They almost cut all of the expansive beach battle they spend months filming in the maladives.