Even when you watch the battle above Scarif you see several ships that look like the Tantive IV (Corellian Corvettes aka blockade runners) The point is NO PLANS WERE FOUND on Raddus's ship, the Profundity. They were erased as soon as they had the disc made. The Imperials found NOTHING on Raddus's ship. How did Vader see the disc with all those people in front of him and why didn't he force pull it like he did their blasters in the scene? And The point of them using the Tantive IV is the ship is supposed to have diplomatic immunity. It was a bold faced lie in 1977, and bold faced lie in 2016. Hence "Don't act so surprised your highness, you weren't on any mercy mission this time." As Pablo said in tweet just hours ago. "It's that people think we don't, you know, double-check this ****."
Still the main journey the plans took was being beamed from the empires base on scarif to a rebel ship. Who cares if it was handed 10 metres along a hallway to a ship inside a ship when its main journey was to be beamed miles to leave the base on scarif.sheesh.
Was Vader supposed to say "The plans were beamed to a ship that was holding this ship,then handed from one rebel to another while I slaughtered them only to just make it to this ship before I got hold of them".
Ben
"Several transmissions were beamed to the ship that housed this ship by rebel spies..."
You guys are looking at this from a
post hoc perspective, though. I mean, yes, you can view the events on screen "from a certain point of view" that makes the words Vader says and Leia's defiance still make sense. Or, put another way, it does not
directly contradict anything. So in that sense, good job Pablo. I do believe they check that stuff to make sure it doesn't
conflict with what's already established canon.
But I also think the story group isn't rigidly restricting the filmmakers so that they can only do things a certain way, even if that way would've made more sense. It's not that Vader's and Leia's lines don't make sense now. It's that they would have made
more sense if the sequence had been shot differently, and it would've fit
better in continuity terms.
However, it would've screwed up the pacing of the film by dragging it out for another 5 minutes just to make the two points line up perfectly, and I just don't think they cared at that point.
Like I said, cinematically, what's on screen works better for the Rogue One film. The pacing's better, you're invested in the right characters, and they get to the general end point that they need to reach (i.e., Leia in possession of the plans, pursued by Vader) to tie the two films directly together.
But you cannot tell me that it wouldn't have made
more sense to have the plans get on to a ship somehow, that ship escapes, Vader pursues it out of system, it transmits (beams) the plans to Leia, and then Vader shows up, blows up the ship, and starts chasing the Tantive IV. That would've made a lot more sense story-wise than what we see on screen, although it would have come at the cost of keeping the film as exciting and fast-paced as it could be.
He's part of the story group though. Everyone said that everything SW related would be perfect now with no bad info and no bad stories.
I stopped caring about what people say is canon in about 2000 or so. I make my own canon now. I mean, I think in general that the story group has cleaned up a lot of stuff and managed the property well. I think Hidalgo & Co. have done a bang-up job overall, at least based on the material I've consumed. I just think that in this case, there was a better way to do it from a "narrative fit" point of view, if not necessarily from a cinematic point of view.
Alternatively, they could've done a sequence during the end credits and one right after. So, the battle of Scarif ends with the transmission making it to the escaping ship (not necessarily Raddus' ship), and that ship hypering away with Vader in hot pursuit, roll credits. As the credits roll, we cut to the ship jumping out of hyperspace and we cut to the bridge, where the captain says "There it is. The Tantive IV. Begin transmission immediately." and back to the credits. As the credits come to a close, we see the Avenger (Vader's ship) drop out of hyperspace almost on top of the ship that escaped and fire several massive blasts at it, destroying it. We cut to the interior of the Tantive IV, as an assistant hands the disc to Captain Antilles, who orders the ship to jump to Tatooine, hands the disc to Leia, and we have the "What is it?" "Hope" line, followed by a shot of the Tantive IV jumping out, and then a shot on the bridge of the Avenger as one of the pit crew says "We've tracked them. Analysis indicates they're headed to a remote system. Tatooine." Vader orders the jump, we see the Avenger jump out, and fade to black.
Or whatever. Like I said, there are ways that the ending could've been shot to make the Vader/Leia exchange make more sense. It's not gobblydeegook now, it doesn't
break continuity, it's just one of those kind of "eh...that could've been done better" moments that pop up in any inter-connected framework of films.