Am I the only one who just doesn't get the Rogue One love? It felt like a whole lot of unoriginal nostalgia, and not in the fun and silly "Trials and Tribble-ations" way. It was just character after character in monochromatic outfits with names I couldn't be bothered to remember, and a plan that I couldn't care about worrying over because we know how it ends and there was nothing dramatically interesting in the execution of that plan.

It should have been more of an Ocean's Eleven thing. A fun heist movie where the Rebel Alliance hatches a crazy scheme to hire a couple of thieves-with-hearts-of-gold to steal the Death Star plans. Make it clear from the start that the tone is "This plan is crazy, we are crazy, I can't believe we're actually getting away with it!" Like on a solid Farscape episode.

There's a fantastic built-in-dramatic-tension thing you could do with a mix of Alliance partisans and the hired thieves in one crew. Who will betray who? Who's going to turn out to be surprisingly trustworthy and honourable? Who might even end up joining the Alliance after the experience of doing the right thing? The actual heist isn't nearly as important as the tension between the characters. And when you already know the outcome of a heist, the fun part is bouncing characters off each other. An over-the-top heist movie with fun banter is way better suited to the Star Wars universe than any other genre because that's what most of the original trilogy was. And it worked.

But I guess Darth Vader and laser gun battles and spaceship battles do more for the dopamine levels of some.