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Anakin Starkiller

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#1480330
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If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place
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Eyepainter said:

JackNapier said:

I’m going back to work, which means more stress and less time to build relationships.

Not sure what your situation is like, but I managed to make a few friends on Discord, and I’ve found it immensely helpful! If you can find some people who are willing to invite or DM you on Discord, I highly recommend it! 😃

Discord is indispensable for day-to-day socializations, but our monkey brains were not meant for the Internet. We still need in-person relationships.

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#1480205
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Nindroid243 said:

Is there a way to recolor Snoke into more Gray? I think he looks a lot better in TFA and the way he did in TLJ.

Only manually, I’m afraid. He’s the same color as the humans and the background (red). You could use EbSynth to facilitate the process, put it’d still be largely manual labor.

EddieDean said:

I would really, really like to see an attempt at a communitywide saga edit, where we consider the franchise holistically.

Bad idea. No one would agree on anything so we’d end up with a middle of the road answer for everything and no one would be happy. Your community focus threads are the closest we’ll come and they’re honestly fantastic.

NeverarGreat said:

I imagine that it would be an entire saga edit using an expanded form of the process of Restructured or Ascendant, where people would submit ideas but one person (or in this case some evil council) decided what ultimately made the cut.

Yeah probably.

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#1480202
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Community Focus Thread 2: Return of the Jedi
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Speaking of pacing, one thing I noticed with the beginning is how there’s little connection between the opening scene with Vader, and then with R2 and 3PO approaching Jabba’s palace and the rest of the Tatooine sequence. With ANH and ESB, I think the audience can feel this plot baton being passed along from one scene to the next. Sure, we do cut back and forth between our heroes and our villains, but by that point their stories had already been connected in the narrative. I think something that helped this problem originally in ROTJ was the deleted scene of Vader trying to commune with Luke on Tatooine. I assume this scene was cut because they felt his introduction was better served during his entrance to Jabba’s palace, but I do think there are some benefits to restoring it. But obviously an issue with using the deleted scene is the quality not being super great. This wouldn’t be an issue as much for an edit using something like '83 Grindhouse or Puggo Grande (which I’m personally planning to do), but not might work as something that could be shared with other editors wanting to keep the material they use consistent.

What if we just skipped Vader’s scene and went straight from the crawl to Tatooine? I think that would probably flow much better. That scene always felt so tangential thrown in at the start like that. Maybe put it back in later before Dagobah or something.

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#1478531
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Tbh these things don’t really need to be explained, but this could be pointed to for those who needed that kind of question answered.

You’re right that they don’t need to be explained, and the people asking for explanations for that will also want explanations for how the Holdo maneuver only works in that one particular circumstance and who Snoke is where Maz got Luke’s lightsaber and a billion other useless bits of visual dictionary filler.

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#1478529
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George Lucas's Sequel Trilogy
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Lucas said “balance” was removing the Sith.

It is 90% of the time, and then that other 10% it’s the Mortis arc of TCW where balance is pretty explicitly an equal amount of Light and Dark.

thebluefrog said:

From a narrative perspective, Lucas introduced the Midichlorians and Darth Plagueis in chapter six.

No, he introduced midi-chlorians in chapter four.