HUMOR I'm just rewatching A New Hope and...

Actually, they did have cgi in the 70's, lots. They had to invent it too.

Look again at the Millennium Falcon vs TIE fighters scene. You'll see TIE's on the Falcon's main gun targetting computers.
In the Yavin 4 pilot briefing scene, the Death Star animation is cgi.
Death Star control room. "Orbiting the planet Yavin. The moon with the Rebel base will be in range" visuals are cgi.
Trench run scenes, targetting computers in TIE's and X-Wings all contain cgi.

 

I'm glad the gap to ANH has been filled.

 

Not perfectly. Some details have been changed by Rogue One. The Death Star plans WERE actually beamed to the Tantive IV, not handed to them on a "floppy disc". Go listen to part 3 of the official Star Wars Radio Drama version of ANH which was made in 1981. The actual 'beaming' of the plans is dramatised.

Or listen here if you don't have it:

 

Is that radio drama canon? Interesting post.

 

No, it's not, only the 2011 version of "A New Hope" is.

 

Fair, but transmissions now could mean patches to the plans downloaded onto the Profundity. I'd like to think that while the signal was mainly directed to the Profundity, other ships too had some parts of the plan, and whatever couldn't be downloaded to the disk as the Rebels rushed off the profundity were later beamed to finish up the plans. Wishful thinking, but I think that works. Also, part of the transmissions could be the location of Obi-Wan, etc.

 

If they ever re-re-re-release ANH with any more changes - they need to put this in, along with an updated DeathStar destruction:




I don't know who did this or where it's from, but YES!

 

I like the current explosion, but it does look much like immediate vaporization of most of the planet, whereas Starkiller base, with the power of a star, breaks apart planets. I would like something more in line with Rogue One and TFA, but it's just a wish over a need.

 

I think what's amazing is that they were able to predict what Tarkin was going to look like in Rogue One way back in the '70s.

Joking aside, I'm glad Disney did this with Cushing's family's blessing, and did so rather tastefully. Personally, I think that he would've been proud to be part of the Star Wars legacy in yet another way.

 

To be honest ANH has had enough retouches to last eternity.

The "less is more" priniciple as well as KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid works fine for ANH and the rest of the OT.

 

Yes I also thought that Tarkin looked amazing. Same goes for young Leia.

 

I agree, the facial rendering is amazing. The only thing I regret a little is Tarkin's skin color : in ANH "Cushing's skin" is very pale (and that is a significant part of his threatening appearance), in RO I find the "CGI skin" a little bit too much "red".

mmmmmmh, I probably don't understand what you mean [please don't blame me], otherwise I dont agree
According to me : all the ships around Scariff receive the same thing the Profundity does - they do not receive "only parts" while the Profundity would receive "all" - [that is what I understood from your post - I acknowledge I may be mistaken].
According to me, that behaves like TV or radio signal : when such a signal is aired, in fact, all the receptors around the antenna receive the same thing at the same time.
Thus, the plans are not beamed "only to the Profundity" : they are beamed, PERIOD and all the ships around are able to receive 100% of the data (and not just parts), including Empire ships who can check what have been actually beamed.

 

Yeah me to.