Via Whatculture.com:

There are a healthy number of Star Wars fans who aren’t on board with upcoming spin-off flick Rogue One for the simple reason that it’s a prequel.

Set to recount the gritty tale of how a group of Rebels managed to steal the plans for the Death Star out from under the Empire’s nose (thus enabling Luke Skywalker to destroy the moon-sized weapon at the end of the original film), they see Rogue One’s aim to fill in this particular gap in the mythology as an unnecessary endeavour.

We already know how the story ends, after all; we know that the good guys are going to ultimately prevail, nab the schematics and send them across to Princess Leia kicking the original trilogy into action.

What the naysayers have failed to see, however, is all the ways in which Rogue One could enhance the Star Wars mythology; ways in which this prequel could lend a lot of weight to the films that follow on from it chronologically, which – in turn – could actually serve to make the classic Episodes even better…

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