Star Wars Rogue One: 20 WTF Moments
11. That Shoehorned R2-D2 & C-3PO Cameo
Just as the rebels take off to mount their final assault, R2-D2 and C-3PO can be spotted for a few seconds chilling out in the hangar bay.
There are a lot of entertaining callbacks to the original trilogy in this movie, though this is one that feels just a little too pandering and forced, as though they were simply thrown in because they've appeared in every Star Wars movie to date and it'd be rude not to include them here.
It's not exactly groan-worthy (it's too short to be, really), but it was totally unnecessary and a rare moment that employed nostalgia for an incredibly cheap fan-service moment without really justifying itself. ]
There's a lot of fan-service in the film, but most of it felt appropriate, though this definitely didn't.