re: Rouge One - Anyone's opinions change now that the sheen has worn off?

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The Rebel Alliance fought out of desperation through much of the original trilogy.

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I disagree.

The tone of IV is one of hope. I was listening to a podcast about the soundtrack and the musician on there talks in length about how Williams crafted the original soundtrack with lots of major keys and full notes to have that sound of hope in the background.

The tone of Rogue One is desperation. The soundtrack from Rogue One basically takes the melodies of IV and changes the keys and a few notes to sound more like desperation and eventually (at the end) bittersweet (mission successful but everyone dies.)

As far as strictly tone, I'd put one word answers as:

RO - Desperation
IV - Hope
V - Fear
VI - Triumph
VII - Rebirth