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On Jun 2, 2025 at 7:47:22 AM PDT, "EGK" <memyself@null.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 05:23:19 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2025 at 4:17:24 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>  On 6/1/25 4:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  
>>>>   On Jun 1, 2025 at 2:25:17 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>        And, of course, Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa here, while Bratt plays
>>>>>   him in Andor.
>>>>   
>>>>   So Felicity Jones couldn't make it back as Jyn Erso? I haven't finished the
>>>>   show yet, but I've heard about the ROGUE ONE cameos and was hoping to see
>>>>  Jyn
>>>>   again. She's always been one of my favorite female action lead characters,
>>>>   like Ripley and Sarah Connor. She's smart and capable without having to
>>>>  resort
>>>>   to the usual nonsense of watching her beat up men three times her size.
>>>  
>>>  Unfortunately, there would be no in-universe justification for Jyn to 
>>>  show up in "Andor" - she and Cassian had clearly never met before "Rogue 
>>>  One", and in fact at the film's open she's in jail (presumably for some 
>>>  time?).
>> 
>> Sure, they couldn't have her and Andor in scenes together, but they could
>> have
>> put together some storyline about the Rebellion discovering Erso had a
>> daughter and tracking her down, finding out she was going by Leeann Halleck,
>> trying to grab her, only to have her fight back and cause a huge public
>> disturbance. The Rebels get away but she's arrested and sent to the labor
>> camp
>> where we find her in ROGUE ONE. She couldn't have been there too long. She
>> didn't look like she'd been at hard labor for very long, if at all.
> 
> They only become aware of Galen Erso at the very end of Andor.  That's what
> creates the tie-in to Rogue One.   I suppose they could have had a cameo of
> Jyn in jail or shown her leaving Saw Gerrera's group.

They should have added this scene, too!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HYzAjUTlCMI

Tarkin is the only Imperial officer in STAR WARS canon who could give Vader
shit without having to worry about being choked out.