{"id":4651,"date":"2016-08-22T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2016-08-22T23:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:11:42","slug":"stand-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/stand-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rogue_One,_A_Star_Wars_Story_poster.png#\/media\/File:Rogue_One,_A_Star_Wars_Story_poster.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d4\/Rogue_One%2C_A_Star_Wars_Story_poster.png\" alt=\"Rogue One, A Star Wars Story poster.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy Source, <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rogue_One,_A_Star_Wars_Story_poster.png\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50076808\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50076808<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite feeling burned and scammed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars#Prequel_trilogy\" target=\"_blank\">prequel trilogy<\/a>, then underwhelmed by the first of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy\" target=\"_blank\">sequel trilogy<\/a>, I&#8217;m finding myself watching and rewatching the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogue_One\" target=\"_blank\">Rogue One<\/a> teaser and trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I returning to this franchise after so much disappointment?<\/p>\n<p>One, it&#8217;s directed by <strong>Gareth Edwards<\/strong> whose <em>Monsters<\/em> and <em>Godzilla<\/em> balanced big-creature spectacle with believable characters and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Two, it has a scrappy band of rebels that includes <strong>Forest Whitaker<\/strong>, <strong>Donnie Yen<\/strong>, and <strong>Jiang Wen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And three, we know how it <em>ends<\/em>. The teaser and trailer have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dirty_Dozen\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dirty Dozen<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wild_Geese\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wild Geese<\/em><\/a> vibe so it&#8217;s not so much the destination but the <em>journey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wji-BZ0oCwg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hell yeah, I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Source, Fair use, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50076808 Despite feeling burned and scammed by the prequel trilogy, then underwhelmed by the first of the sequel trilogy, I&#8217;m finding myself watching and rewatching the Rogue One teaser and trailer. Why am I returning to this franchise after so much disappointment? One, it&#8217;s directed by Gareth Edwards whose Monsters and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/stand-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stand Alone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[1208,1206,182,1204,1073,1207,1205,1203,1202,1209],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","tag-dirty-dozen","tag-donnie-yen","tag-forest-whitaker","tag-gareth-edwards","tag-godzilla","tag-jiang-wen","tag-monsters","tag-rogue-one","tag-star-wars","tag-wild-geese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}