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Reading Dr Aphra In The Light Of Rogue One's Jyn Erso
Star Wars: Dr Aphra #2 came out this week. Thing is, it's probably very unlikely that writer Kieron Gillen would have or could have seen those early scenes of Star Wars: Rogue One ahead of writing this, But it will have gone through Lucasfilm , so who knows what, if any, influence that may have born.
But those beginning scenes of the young Jyn Erso and her father and mother, did seem to resonate in comparison to those of Aphra's childhood.
It does feel very much like a Jyn that could have been, if she had been taken by the Imperials instead of Galen… although her later reaction to the actions of her father seems a lot more honest and, frankly, more cathartic than Rogue One gave us.
And more importantly giving us a glimpse of O-O-O, the protocol droid deigned for torturing a thousand species to demonstrate his similarity to a Swiss Army knife.
There must be a Christmas present in that, for the toyline to merchandise, right?
Doctor Aphra #2 by Kieron Gillen and Kev Walker was published last week.