Whether you agree with all of Edwards’ decisions or not, you have to admit that Rogue One succeeded in giving us lots of new angles on Darth Vader.
All these little details flesh out the character and give fans more to mull over, and possibly serve as a tease for a future Darth Vader anthology film.
It’s also interesting to see inside Edwards’ visual thought-process and realize some of the weird inspirations behind some of the images in Rogue One.
Another moment later in the same scene, when Vader makes a bad pun, showed yet another side of the character we hadn’t thought about.