Having Chirrut be the first to notice the AT-ATs was perfect.

I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned or thought of this yet and I also could have posted this a lot earlier, but I just wanted to share something that I realized about the moment Chirrut hears the AT-ATs approach.Having Chirrut be the first to notice the AT-ATs was perfect, for the simple fact that he’s blind. As we start to hear the stomping, he doesn’t react to the first two, because I guess he thinks they might be explosions. Only at the third stomp does he realize that they’re actually the footsteps of an AT-AT and immediately gets up to warn Baze and tell him to run.He has never seen them, but he knows what they are. He knows what they can do and what those footsteps represent. He’s not just reacting to them visually as any other character would (because he can’t), he’s actually drawing from his memory and from the impression that they left on him.This all adds so much more credibility and realism to the Star Wars universe, which is why I think this was a brilliant move by Edwards. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2srUpdw