Everyone Dies

Seriously. Straight up fucking DIES. Everyone.

Since this film takes place immediately before Episode IV, we’ve already had four sequels to this film. We know that we never meet any of the characters from this story in the future. We know that their part of the Star Wars canon is complete, in this one film and, because of that, it’s completely fine to just obliterate the shit out of them for the sake of a very real war film.

Buncha cool ass dead people

This film actually has some of the most interesting characters that Star Wars has ever presented. They’re far more flushed out than anyone we meet in A New Hope. These are the people that are the backbone of the actual rebellion. It’s not about people like the Princess, or the unwilling savior — the war against The Empire is about people. People willing to make sacrifices. People who believe in the cause so much that they are willing to die in order to advance it. We never see these people again in any of the films, but we know that their sacrifice was worth it because the information that they get off the planet is what allows Luke to destroy the Death Star. They never get to witness it though because, like actual war, sometimes our heroes die before they get to see the real difference their sacrifice made.

And you thought The Empire was a downer...

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