{"id":201,"date":"2016-12-16T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-12-16T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T10:11:17","slug":"rogue-one-a-star-wars-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Poster-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Poster-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Poster-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-Poster.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>It was all that I was expecting from a non-Saga <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie. \u00a0Hell, this is the kind of <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie that I would have made, if I were as talented as Gareth Edwards or J.J. Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>It hit all the right buttons with me, from the characters to the effects, to even the cameos, which surprised me in a couple of spots.<\/p>\n<p>There were some scenes in the trailer that were obviously cut from the film, possibly for dialogue, or some other reason.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I was so focused on the second paragraph of the original <em>Star\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wars<\/em>&#8216; opening crawl, that it never dawned on me that the <em>first<\/em> paragraph would happen as well. \u00a0Go read it and you&#8217;ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I do recommend the book <em>Catalyst<\/em> by James Luceno, if only to give some background to stuff that maybe should have been mentioned in some sort of opening crawl (spoiler: there is none for <em>Rogue One<\/em>). \u00a0Do you know what a Kyber crystal is in the Star Wars universe?<\/p>\n<p>My favorite of the films is still the original.<\/p>\n<p>But if I were to rank them?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A New Hope<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rogue One<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Force Awakens<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Return of the Jedi<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Phantom Menace<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Attack of the Clones<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Two big thumbs up from me. \u00a0Go see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved it. It was all that I was expecting from a non-Saga Star Wars movie. \u00a0Hell, this is the kind of Star Wars movie that I would have made, if I were as talented as Gareth Edwards or J.J. Abrams. It hit all the right buttons with me, from the characters to the effects, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rogue One: A Star Wars Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6,9],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-rogue-one","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}