Star Wars: First Reactions To Rogue One Hit The Internet

12/03/2016 04:43 pm EST

A select audience had the opportunity to take in about 28 minutes of footage from the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and their reactions are have started piling up on social media.

Fans started to worry when news of extensive reshoots and conflicting visions started making their out of the studio, but if these reactions are anything to go by, those fears might have been unwarranted.

Highlights of the footage include a scene-stealing K-2SO (played by Alan Tudyk) and a much more visceral type of action not seen in the earlier films, with terms like violent, tense, and fierce used to describe it. You can find the reactions that have made their way out so far included below.

More will surely follow, as other screenings at Lucasfilm are set to take place later today.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits US theaters December 16, 2016. Directed by Gareth Edwards, it's the first of the new standalone features from Lucasfilm and Disney, which take place outside the core "Skywalker Saga" of films noted by an Episode number. Rogue One tells the story of the small band of rebels that were tasked with stealing the plans to the first Death Star. The story spins directly off the opening crawl from the original Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. In that crawl, it read: "Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet."

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