History YMMV / FromACertainPointOfView

%%* {{Narm}}:
%%** In her story, Aunt Beru goes on for quite a bit about blue milk, and how she could've built a career serving blue cheese.
%%** "That's right boys, Fett's here."

* BrokenBase: Either a great anniversary stunt with some nice new stories and characters, or [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks a poor imitation]] of the Legends omnibus ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' with weaker writing and ''far'' worse continuity between stories. To wit, in three consecutive stories, Greedo goes from a self-pitying [[NiceGuysFinishLast nice guy]] with a grudge, to a genuinely dangerous bounty hunter people are afraid of, to a known idiot nobody takes seriously. However, it should be noted that this compilation makes heavy use of UnreliableNarrator (with the first Greedo characterization coming from his own POV as an example), hence the title of the compilation, but whether that just makes it more interesting or comes off as a flimsy excuse for lack of continuity comes down to a matter of taste.

* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Aunt Beru's final regret is that she'll never see Luke have a family of his own. This is even more tragic in light of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' where her nephew dies alone on Ahch-To, never having had any children of his own, partly the cause of his own nephew's fall to the Dark Side and with only his sister and a single remaining student to mourn him.]]
** And it's gotten even harsher with ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', with [[spoiler: Ben Solo's death. It's mitigated by Rey taking up the Skywalker name, but ''still''.]]

* NightmareFuel: The end of "Eclipse" gives us [[EarthShatteringKaboom the destruction of Alderaan]] from the Organas' perspective. It's [[Film/RogueOne what happened on Jedha]] taken up to eleven. Even worse, Bail knew exactly what was coming as soon as the sun was blocked out.

* TheWoobie: [=R5-D4=] in "The Red One". He's an old and poorly-maintained astromech droid that desperately wants to be bought so he can have a purpose and not get scrapped. Suffice to say, he feels threatened when the much more functional [=R2-D2=] is added to the Jawas' inventory.

** "The Red One" can be considered a serious version of "Skippy the Jedi Droid" from ''Comicbook/StarWarsTales''.
** This may be considered the canon counterpart of ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', a compilation of stories by different writers about the cantina patrons in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. In addition to the Mos Eisley characters, ''From a Certain Point of View'' includes side characters throughout ''Film/ANewHope'' (as well as characters that weren't seen in the film, exploring what they were up to at the time).

* SpiritualAdaptation: "The Red One" can be considered a serious version of "Skippy the Jedi Droid" from ''Comicbook/StarWarsTales''.
* SpiritualSuccessor: This may be considered the canon counterpart of ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', a compilation of stories by different writers about the cantina patrons in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. In addition to the Mos Eisley characters, ''From a Certain Point of View'' includes side characters throughout ''Film/ANewHope'' (as well as characters that weren't seen in the film, exploring what they were up to at the time).

* NightmareFuel: The end of "Eclipse" gives us [[EarthShatteringKaboom the destruction of Alderaan]] from the Organas' perspective. It's [[Film/RogueOne what happened on Jedha]] taken UpToEleven. Even worse, Bail knew exactly what was coming as soon as the sun was blocked out.

** Is the characterization of Tarkin in of Mouse-Droids and Men a hidden soft side of the villain that we never got to see before, major character derailment of the mastermind Tarkin being lovestruck by a handsome young trooper, or actively hateful by having the only gay character not only be a villain, but massively abusing his authority in textbook quid-pro-quo sexual harassment?

* HilariousInHindsight: This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI video]] depicting the post-Yavin award without the background music becomes more hilarious when "By Whatever Sun" effectively confirms that John Williams' score was playing during the ceremony InUniverse, thus avoiding a lot of AwkwardSilence[[note]]TruthInTelevision, most real-life military ceremonies ''do'' in fact have music, either from a military band or a recording[[/note]].

* HilariousInHindsight: This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI video]] depicting the post-Yavin award without the background music becomes more hilarious when "By Whatever Sun" effectively confirms that John Williams' score was playing during the ceremony InUniverse, thus avoiding a lot of AwkwardSilence[[note]]TruthInTelevision, most real-life military ceremonies ''do'' in fact have music, either from a military bands or a recording[[/note]].

* HilariousInHindsight: This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI video]] depicting the post-Yavin award without the background music becomes more hilarious when "By Whatever Sun" effectively confirms that John Williams' score was playing during the ceremony InUniverse, thus avoiding a lot of AwkwardSilence.

* EndingFatigue: The problem of having all the stories in chronological order becomes apparent when we're treated to four consecutive tales on Rebel pilots during the Battle of Yavin, all of which are incredibly similar and repetitive.

** We finally find out about the NoodleIncident that [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Vader alluded to when telling Boba Fett about "No Disintegrations"]]: two guys Boba was chasing fired at him with a [[DisintegratorRay disruptor]] only to get disintegrated themselves due [[CrazyPrepared Boba being prepared for it]], and when he tried to cash the bounty Darth Vader in person, who was the one who had placed it, refused because he couldn't identify the quarries from their ashes.

* {{Narm}}:
** In her story, Aunt Beru goes on for quite a bit about blue milk, and how she could've built a career serving blue cheese.
** "That's right boys, Fett's here."

* FunnyMoments: There's more than a few moments:

** It's brief but being as "Raymus" takes place immediately after Leia's ship barely escapes from Vader's grasp at Scarif we get a brief perspective on the absolute horror he is to the average soldier on the battlefield. Toshma Jefkins escaped from the Profundity to the Tantive IV only to watch his men get killed by Vader in the hallway. The usually steeled veteran was so traumatized by the incident that he didn't even realize at the time that it was Vader himself, only able to describe the thing slaughtering his men as a "Death Angel".

* {{Funny}}: There's more than a few moments:

* {{Narm}}: In her story, Aunt Beru goes on for quite a bit about blue milk, and how she could've built a career serving blue cheese.

* BrokenBase: Either a great anniversary stunt with some nice new stories and characters, or [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks a poor imitation]] of the Legends omnibus ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' with weaker writing and ''far'' worse continuity between stories. To wit, in three consecutive stories, Greedo goes from a self-pitying [[NiceGuysFinishLast nice guy]] with a grudge, to a genuinely dangerous bounty hunter people are afraid of, to a known idiot nobody takes seriously.

* SpiritualSuccessor: This may be considered the canon counterpart of ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'', a compilation of stories by different writers about the cantina patrons in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. In addition to the Mos Eisley characters, ''From a Certain Point of View'' includes side characters throughout ''Film/ANewHope''.

* BrokenBase: Either a great anniversary stunt with some nice new stories and characters, or [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks a poor imitation]] of the Legends omnibus ''Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina'' with weaker writing and ''far'' worse continuity between stories.