Isn ' t abortion illegal in Ireland ? <| sep |> My experience is that casual fans understand it , they just don ' t understand why Disney decided to jump back in time . And I don ' t understand it either . Why did this specific story need to be told ? Did anyone really care how the Death Star plans were obtained ? It was probably the least inspiring spinoff idea available to them . Especially after Starkiller literally made the Death Star look tiny they actually showed us a visual comparison for goodness sake . This is why I sympathised with the Jyn Rey ' s Mom speculation . That wasn ' t just idiot fanboys feverishly making connections for no reason Finn Calrissian , anyone ? . It came out of a desire to give Rogue One a legitimate reason to exist . It would provide a storytelling justification for leaping back decades in time . This is our new heroine of mysterious parentage and now we reveal her mother . And then , in Episode 8 , we reveal Luke to be her father . Her parents were the two heroes who destroyed the Death Star . So neat you could tie a bow around it . Anyway , I ' ll still be first in line and I hope it ' s brilliant , and I hope that it racks up a huge total at the box office so we can get more interesting spinoffs in future .