Topic: Rogue One Post Release Thoughts
I loved it! While other people moan and groan about the alleged lack of character development let me remind you that this movie does cram a lot of events/situations into 2 hours and 13 minutes and it's all awesome! I just read on Vulture.com that the reshoots for Rogue One beefed up three of the characters, Bodhi Rook, Captain Cassian Andor and Jyn Erso. In the original version of the movie you see a young Jyn and then you see her being interrogated by the Rebels on Yavin 4, but in the reshoots they have some Rebels busting her out of prison on Wobani which I think is a really cool scene. Bodhi is introduced earlier in the theatrical version being led to Saw Gerrera on Jedha. And finally Captain Andor is introduced earlier on shooting that informant in the back on the Ring of Kafrene Trading Post which is a pretty strong scene and pretty much sums up the complexity of his gray area character. The writers of the reshoots then goes on to say that even if you do watch the deleted scenes there isn't a whole lot to them. People we got an awesome, spectacularly fun film and I'm extremely happy with it!