Theodore
I gotta move
You see, that was the impression I took away from it, but not knowing there was a secondary series of films being made, it totally screwed with my head. I thought "oh, ok... so that's the agent who sacrificed themselves in order to get the plans to Leah, who then gives them to R2, to get to Obi-Wan".
And then I thought "WTF?! That doesn't make any sense, because it happened forty years before episode VII."
I was horribly confused, and still am.
So it's a "Tweener". A post-prequal-sequal?
Mind=Blown.
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