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shoud Jyn have lived?


they obviously wanted that Deep Impact/Pompeii ending but maybe Jyn didn't need to die. her mother, father all her friends all her team.. and Jyn?.. ...

they could've had her get away (her buddy sacrificing himself so she can get off the planet).

then they could've had Felicity Jones back in a SW movie at some point..(she was ok wasn't she?)

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She was only okay though, a pretty unremarkable performance of a pretty clichéd character.

I like that they were brave enough to kill off everyone, but I was irritated that I didn't care more when they died (barring the gay robot guy, he was the best character in the movie).

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I don't think so. It would have been difficult to explain her absence in the original trilogy. She would have been declared a hero by the rebels and a major face for it. I liked that all the main characters were killed off as I thought it was a better story.

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I've never liked the standard Hollywood ending, where the only survivors of the team are the two attractive heterosexual leads, who then presumably live happily ever after. I probably would have thought less of this film, if they'd gone with that.

So the ending to Jyn's story was very moving, as was the fact that the story went on without her. It was an unusual and non-cliche'd story structure, which was actually the right way to feed into the story of "A New Hope", because that's how wars go. People die, they die heroically or tragically, and the war doesn't stop to mourn them.

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I would have saved Jyn and Donnie Yen's character. They could have done a sequel set between V and VI where they worked with the Bothans to get the data on the second Death Star.

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that woudve worked nicely. and a R1 sequel could've made another billion as everyone really dug R1

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No.

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