Star Wars: Rogue One - 10 Niggling Concerns No Fan Wants To Admit

7. The Inevitable Lack Of Closure

This may be a subjective point, but a good story should necessarily have an ending, something – happy, or sad – which creates a much needed sense of closure or resolution. Return of the Jedi was particularly disappointing because its ending was unsatisfactory, the final confrontation reduced to an elongated skirmish in the woods, the Death Star resurrected out of sheer convenience because creating something original was apparently too much effort.

Rogue One is disadvantaged by its standing as a prequel, because the overarching narrative cannot be resolved within the context of the movie. The Death Star – despite its function as the primary threat of the film – cannot be destroyed, which somehow defies everything we understand about conventional storytelling. Instead, the destruction of the supreme super weapon – again, which the entire plot revolves around – is depicted in an entirely separate movie, released in 1977.

This inevitable lack of closure might prove disastrous, especially because nothing of the same scale can possibly take its place.