I saw Rogue One 5 times in theatres. It took me three views of the final scene with Vader to realize that he CATCHES a blaster bolt and releases it BACK at a Rebel trooper.

Are there any out there that happened to process that, unlike me?

I only saw it once and what I saw was Vader block a blaster bolt as he did in ESB. What actually occurred given all the bouncing framing and panning and fast edits...

You're slow...I caught pun intended) that on the first viewing.

I've only seen the movie twice. But YouTube has that Vader scene...watched it a few times more. Good times.

Vader pulls all sorts of fantastic force-moves in that scene, but yeah the blaster-bolt catch was pretty excellent. I think my favorite is him sticking the one trooper to the ceiling and casually bisecting him as he walks by.

He can catch a blaster bolt, but can't use the force to grab the plans from the Rebels...

15 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

He can catch a blaster bolt, but can't use the force to grab the plans from the Rebels...

Ironically, his Armour, being proprietary, lacks a USB slot. Unlike those Mass-Produced R2 Units.

20 hours ago, Undeadguy said:

He can catch a blaster bolt, but can't use the force to grab the plans from the Rebels...

My best guess for this is that he doesn't quite know they are carrying the plans on that giant disk.

There's a lot the Empire does at the end of Rogue One that rivals the incompetence of the two Star Destroyer officers that fail to shoot at 3PO and R2's escape pod in ANH. Still, it was a great film.

39 minutes ago, jscott991 said:

My best guess for this is that he doesn't quite know they are carrying the plans on that giant disk.

There's a lot the Empire does at the end of Rogue One that rivals the incompetence of the two Star Destroyer officers that fail to shoot at 3PO and R2's escape pod in ANH. Still, it was a great film.

Well, he did follow the Tantive afterwards, so he must know the plans are on it. Maybe he scrubbed the MC-75 and found out the plans were loaded onto a disk.

2 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Well, he did follow the Tantive afterwards, so he must know the plans are on it. Maybe he scrubbed the MC-75 and found out the plans were loaded onto a disk.

He knows the plans are on the Tantive, or deduces it by the fact that the ship escapes. But remember in ANH he is talking about a transmission, so I'm not sure Vader is ever aware they are on a disk. (The two films, of course, don't quite mesh together correctly on this point, which is the product of the probably mistaken decisions to have the Tantive inexplicably participate in the Battle of Scarif, and then claim to be a consular ship -- all the while leading Vader to the location of General Kenobi, which is supposed to be a big secret.)

3 minutes ago, jscott991 said:

He knows the plans are on the Tantive, or deduces it by the fact that the ship escapes. But remember in ANH he is talking about a transmission, so I'm not sure Vader is ever aware they are on a disk. (The two films, of course, don't quite mesh together correctly on this point, which is the product of the probably mistaken decisions to have the Tantive inexplicably participate in the Battle of Scarif, and then claim to be a consular ship -- all the while leading Vader to the location of General Kenobi, which is supposed to be a big secret.)

Considering the stupidity of all the plans in the Empire being on Scarif and only Scarif a little fudging or things not quite meshing is no big deal. While maybe not the best story decision it isn't a total upending of the start of Star Wars or suggestive of incompetence.

They might have thought they'd lost their pursuit when they'd arrived at Tatooine on the giving up Kenobi angle. As to claiming to be a consular ship... If you just got pulled over by the fuzz asking where the dope's at you're going to lie. "Dope? We don't have any dope. We're a church group on our way to the soup kitchen."

Vader's reputation had obviously proceeded him as well. You're already dead. No sense making it easy for him.

He doesn't grab and release the blaster bolt. He reflects it like he does in The Empire Strikes Back.

Noticed on first time, but what made me happiest on that scene is when he throws the rebel on the roof, that was just cruel and amazing

On 2/16/2017 at 11:15 AM, Frimmel said:

Considering the stupidity of all the plans in the Empire being on Scarif and only Scarif a little fudging or things not quite meshing is no big deal.

Its never said thats the only location the Imperials store plans and schematics. In fact in a scene with Tarkin its stated that its simply where the original Death Star plans were implying there were copies elsewhere which would likewise suggest that the Empire has another top level data archives.

In Rogue One the plans are shown, as in the original film, with the superlaser dish located squarely on the Death Star's equator rather then a hemisphere.

25 minutes ago, Forresto said:

Its never said thats the only location the Imperials store plans and schematics. In fact in a scene with Tarkin its stated that its simply where the original Death Star plans were implying there were copies elsewhere which would likewise suggest that the Empire has another top level data archives.

In Rogue One the plans are shown, as in the original film, with the superlaser dish located squarely on the Death Star's equator rather then a hemisphere.

Fair enough but what I took away from the film was that the dude who has to do the turbolaser maintenance doesn't have the drawings he needs at the turbolaser emplacement and so on. It is entirely possible I misunderstood.

On 2/16/2017 at 8:41 PM, Felswrath said:

He doesn't grab and release the blaster bolt. He reflects it like he does in The Empire Strikes Back.

That's the way it looked to me too. No less awesome though.

when he put that guy on the ceiling i was like "why'd he go and do that?" then he gutted him and speechless was I. When I watch that scene the only reaction I can have is a combo of speechlessness and uncontrollable laughter.

On ‎2‎/‎17‎/‎2017 at 11:16 PM, Xindell said:

That's the way it looked to me too. No less awesome though.

Watching it in slow mo on Youtube I don't see an incoming bolt.

Maybe give it a look for yourself. He has his hand up and clenched...then he opens it towards the Rebel. /crappedpants