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Maybe so with the CGI re-touching. Certainly there are lots of facial similarities between them and their body sizes and heights are nearly identical, and certainly she would have been more convincing than the full CGI once her mouth and face started moving.

Yes that's it exactly, the darkness hid the flaws when animating Tarkin. Animating humans believably in films has been the holy grail of CGI for at least three decades now, so I'm guessing it'll take significantly more than just a few years to master it.

It's exaggeration in the extreme to describe the CGI as looking "nothing like her." Can you tell it's CGI? If you're familiar with the qualities of CGI and realize that it often falls apart once it starts moving, then yes, you can absolutely tell. Did they match her facial characteristics? They're identical. Full-size comparison image is in the spoiler.

If it is that bad of a wound then how was he able to do any fighting at all? I would say it was the force. We don't know because they've never made it clear what damage the blaster shots do. In the original films when you took a blaster shot, you just fell over with no apparent damage. When Kenobi shot Grievous multiple times in the chest his organs burst into flame, however that happened. At the start of Force Awakens we see blaster shots causing bleeding for the first time when Finn gets blood on his helmet when another stormtrooper who was shot rubs his hand down his face as he dies. Chewbacca takes a shot to the shoulder and they just bandage him up. Kylo takes a shot to the shoulder and you can't see much, but later you see him bleeding in the snow. Just can't tell, but it's clear we're meant to assume he's weakened.

Me as well! Disney's avoidance of 4K has caused me to boycott their discs for now. I'm not buying now and then again later just to line Bob Iger's pockets an infinitesimal amount more.

Minor injury? They showed how effective Chewbacca's bowcaster rifle was several times in the movie ... Yea, there's no way you'd ever call it a minor injury. If it were a bullet from a gun, it would be a MAJOR injury to get hit in the shoulder below the collarbone. You'd likely live, but any expectation for continuing to effectively swing a sword is gone. If we are to assume that laser blasts do more damage than bullets, then it should be even worse. Certainly they showed a potentially-fatal amount of blood loss from the amount that was dripping when he stood still for just a few seconds in the snow.

Yea, the hierarchy isn't clear. Vader and Tarkin treat each other as peers from everything shown so far.

I suppose, but then again we saw little of the relationship between Father/ Daughter. We saw a little, but not enough to elicit any empathy when he was killed. We all know what paternal relationships are like--even if we don't have them. The fact that she was still wearing the kyber crystal pendant he gave her as an adult tells you that she still values the lost relationship.

It doesn't make sense for Vader to take on grunts as second in command in the Empire no matter how you analyze the situation, but I don't care. I loved seeing him mow through a crowd of people.

Wouldn't say we saw no character development for Jyn. Going from self-absorbed criminal to sacrificing herself for the rebellion to fulfill her father's legacy was quite an endearing development.

Why does Saw just give up and not try to escape the Death Star ray's blast radius with the others?

Seems like the rise of the Rebellion is fertile ground for a story. Just from watching Episodes III and IV, all we know is that the Empire started and then suddenly there was a strong rebellion fighting them twenty years later. I presume they're all ex-members of the Republic, but I don't really know. Rogue One didn't cover their rise at all. And wow do I suddenly want that story told to see Vader in his prime as a Sith.

What does the Force do to help deal with injuries?

Yea, he wasn't developed well. He was created to be the Alliance version of Darth Vader, ferocious in battle and mostly robotic now, but instead of turning to the dark side he stayed light. The occasional use of the oxygen mask was another touch to allude to Vader. But they didn't convey any of that well enough to pick it up easily or for that to make him compelling. He implied that the tentacle creature would cause that guy to lose his mind, but he wasn't particularly crazy, was he? He acted a little loopy at first but it seemed to fade fast.

That black outfit made him look slim, but he's 6' 2", 190 pounds, and relatively muscular out of it which I only know that because they showed him shirtless on HBO's "Girls" a lot. He's bigger than most Jedi or Sith from the films.

And Liam Neeson may have been the best guy to yield a lightsaber other than Ray Park. Particularly loved how he meditated in the middle of those force fields separating the two of them during the battle. Their fight was spellbounding, and I have many times re-watched only that fight from the movie. That's my only gripe about Force Awakens--the Kylo v Rey battle was interesting, but just not at all epic since Rey clearly only had any chance at all because Kylo was wounded. I generally enjoyed Force Awakens more, but that one Vader scene killed any action sequence from Force Awakens. Kylo Ren is a bad-, but so far he has no peer. I'm guessing his only match is Luke, so it'll be interesting to see what they do to jazz him up from what the 32-year old version of him did in Return of the Jedi.

I'm still fine with the original sequence from Episode I. Ray Park is the best person to ever pick up a lightsaber, and Maul is the coolest Sith alien design in all of the movies. Odd that the very best villain and battle sequences--aside from Maul getting too-easily punked by Obi-Wan at the end--were in the very worst of all the movies.

I knew I had seen Krennic before, but I just now realized he was in Dark Knight Rises as the rich guy who Bane kills by doing something horrible to his head we're not shown.

So where'd the most memorable line from the first trailer go where Jyn is talking to Mon Mothma about her troubled past and says "This is a rebellion, isn't it? I rebel."

Even when I was a 9-year old I wasn't impressed with Vader. What doesn't fit is that guy from Episode IV being one of the most infamously bad- guys in the galaxy, but this Vader fits with the originals in actually earning that reputation for the first time since we saw Anakin in action in the prequels. The old Vader's stiffness and simple lightsaber technique is particularly striking when compared against Darth Maul or any random Jedi from the arena fight scene in attack of the clones or even the similarly-stiff Dooku who at least used his force telekinesis during combat, something Vader rarely and rather lamely did during the originals. Yes, I wanted that scene to continue for TEN minutes, and I hope we get more content between episodes III and IV to have that happen, which is eminently possible given that several decades passed between those films. I had heard he had more than a cameo but nothing else specific, so I was wondering if it would be him who would show up and go after Jyn and Cassian...that certainly would've been more dynamic than the management dude Krennic weakly going after them.

It's the opposite--he should have moved like this in Episode IV, it's just a shame they couldn't do more at the time and I'm glad they did it now.

I want to see a clear picture of Vader's new style medical chamber. Has it been said who the actor was playing him there?

Yea, BIG time. Movie was entertaining, but that scene was just awesome. Not as exciting as when Yoda opened up his can of whoop- in Episode II, but pretty close. I wasn't expecting it.

I like Michonne better than her. But I might just like the character better and that's biasing my view of the actresses themselves.