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

The Force Awakens was a critical and commercial success, getting a great many things right, including the tone, which the prequels completely squandered.

That said, the film borrowed extensively from the original trilogy, considered a soft-reboot by many, myself included. In both cases, an inexperience, wide-eyed youth – abandoned on a desert planet, and forced to stick around out of obligation – is thrust into a galactic struggle, tasked with transporting a droid containing vital information to the rebellion, and combating a sinister organisation with villainous intentions along the way.

Granted, there were numerous alterations, but the basic structure was identical, which is exactly what audiences were expecting, anticipating – to some extent – a nostalgia trip, because the series had been dormant for such a considerable amount of time. Rogue One by comparison, needs to innovate, to show us something we haven’t seen before, surprise us without relying on characters, images and quotes from the original trilogy, or else audiences might be ultimately disappointed.