As one of my professors in graduate school said: “Anyone who thinks they have made something completely foolproof has totally underestimated the ingenuity of a complete fool.”
No, I distinctly remember seeing the film in the theater in the summer of 1977 that “Episode IV: A New Hope” did indeed appear in the opening crawl, where the backstory was briefly summarized, and I remember briefly wondering what the heck that was all about. That said, the title of the film was simply “Star Wars”, and remained so until the original trilogy was re-released to theaters in the late 1990s, with updated special effects, ahead of the prequel trilogy, at which point the original films got numbered episodic titles to match the later ones. All that said, I agree that “Rogue One” was easily the strongest of the later Star Wars releases. I’m surprised it hasn’t had its title updated to “episode 3.5”
I have about 2,000 ebooks on my Kindle account, but I haven’t read them all. The ones I have yet to read have yet to see any expenditure of energy—literally or figuratively—from me, and thus have arguably made zero environmental impact to date. I have no clue the impact the hundreds of physical ‘dead tree’ books I own have had, but a significant number of them were acquired second hand. How, exactly, do we calculate their impact? Is it all on the original owner’s environmental footprint and do I thus get a free pass for buying a used copy? or does it divided among the environmental footprints of multiple owners, past, present, and possibly future, making the footprint of each owner a little shallower, albeit wider?
It’s an old cop trick. Act like you know and then let the suspect’s reaction confirm your suspicions.