Quote of the Day, Must. Not. Talk About. Rogue One Spoilers. edition.

What Tycho is saying here is so maddeningly true:

There is a lot to like about Rogue One, but it’s true; you can’t actually talk about Rogue One.  Not meaningfully; it’s very Fight Club.  Unless you and the person you’re talking to have seen it, virtually everything is a spoiler.  I’ve heard it said that this is the first movie to take the franchise heritage as a document of War seriously, but that’s what you write when you want to “start a conversation.”  In truth, this movie isn’t even in the same genre as the tentpole Star Wars films, which explains practically everything about the change in tone.

I’m shocked by how well people have been managing to keep out the details from this movie; possibly last year’s donnybrook over The Force Awakens spoilers taught some valuable lessons.  Which is frankly bizarre to contemplate, but there you are. I figure that I ought to let people who have scheduled Christmas break to go see the film go see it, but sometime next week there WILL be a spoiler-laden post on the subject.  Fair warning.

7 thoughts on “Quote of the Day, Must. Not. Talk About. Rogue One Spoilers. edition.”

  1. It may also be that since the overall plot of the film is more or less known implicitly, there are fewer plot details that can qualify as truly spoilery. So, what counts as spoilers now is stuff like “Did character you care about appear in a cameo role? Gotta watch to find out!” That kind of stuff is easy to stay silent about. The ending qualifies, (endings usually do), but even that seems like something that’s easily kept silent, as it’s not a SHAMALON TWIST. I guess, what I’m saying is that it’s a film you can easily talk about without ruining anything, because the fun is in the watching not in plot details.

  2. > sometime next week there WILL be a spoiler-laden post on the subject. Fair warning.

    Any time Tuesday evening or later would be fine by me.

    2. Those were the films of the dark times .. before the Empire (of the mouse) ..
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      Having now seen Episode VII and sidecar-story Rogue One .. I’ve decided the mouse has no choice but to either disavow Phanton Stupidity .. or to out-Lucas George Lucas and *somehow* fix them..
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      Mew

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