Anakin Starkiller

EddieDean said:

The GALACTIC REPUBLIC is failing. As
its Senate becomes more complacent,
QUEEN AMIDALA, elected ruler of the
planet Naboo, stands as a vocal champion
against corruption.

With the Republic’s ability to protect
its worlds diminished, the greedy TRADE
FEDERATION have invaded her home system,
in an attempt to force her compliance.

The Jedi Order, mystical wielders of
THE FORCE and defenders of the Republic,
have dispatched Jedi Knight QUI-GON JINN
and his apprentice to bring the Queen to
safety on the capital planet of Coruscant.

This crawl is excellent! I’m gonna use it, but swapping the last paragraph for the one in the official cut. The Jedi don’t know they’re going to rescue the Queen yet (at least in my cut and the official one), so it wouldn’t make sense to mention and I feel like this takes too much time elaborating on what a Jedi is. I’d rather use that time to say the chancellor sent them.

A couple things I’m particularly interested in:

• Classic style starfighter UI
• Dooku

I know there’s been a lotta talk over the years about Dooku being on the Council or at Qui-Gon’s funeral, but I’d much rather set him up as already being a villain. I remember years ago experimenting with splicing together the deleted scene from AotC where he offers Padme to join him with the Queen escaping Naboo thinking it could be a holographic conversation. Really, I think it would take a lot of effort to set him up as the big bad behind this film. For one thing he’d have to replace Sidious in most hologram scenes. Idk if you guys consider that worth it.

The concept that Padme wins because of the destruction of the control ship is a really nice touch.

Wait, that isn’t how it happens in the actual film?

I’m a little confused why you’re killing off Leia early.

I disagree with cutting away right before the RotS quote instead of right after, but I’m guessing you really wanna save Palpy’s face reveal for later. Idk, it feels like a bit of an awkward point to cut away from.

Thank you everybody!

If you’re combining the Saga and spinoffs anyways, dropping the “Episode” part from the title is the absolute first thing I’d do. I’m tempted to say the crawls too, but I suppose you can keep them if you really want to. They probably help tie everything together more cohesively and explain cut or underdeveloped plot points as is often the case in edits.

I 100% expect most episodes to be around 40-60 minutes, just like Mando.

Actually, we could use Ex Machina as backstory for both Poe and Hux.

I just plowed through both reading an academic article and writing the 1500 word essay about it entirely in a day! That’s amazing!

I feel completely incapable of getting my work done. Every time I so much as try to start I feel repelled by it and get a deep urge to do literally anything else.

Also, it gives you a taste of what it feels like to be in love, but now, it’s escapism? Which one is it, then?

Those aren’t contradictory.

is straight up lying and has no intent to help me.

Keep lying to yourself then. I did not tell any lies.

Also, if that’s how you view romance fiction, then it’s no wonder you’re having a hard time finding someone.

I don’t see it as a realistic model of what to expect, it’s just escapism.

Okay Willy Wonka.

Just to let everyone know, this is the same person who posts an incessant number of Bully Maguire memes in the worst edit ideas thread.

I think I posted a single video of that once. I did not post “an incessant number”. Certainly less times then you’ve posted about this one really specific trauma without elaborating upon it in any meaningful way. Saying it won’t make it go away, nor will it make people excuse anything you do because of it. If you’re actually open to dealing with it so you can move on with your life than by all means do so but you don’t seem open to that. You can’t live in the past, as much as you might want to.

So I think it’s only fair if I ask this question: How old are you now?

I asked you first, you answer first, then I’ll gladly answer. Besides, I’m asking in an attempt to help you. You’re asking in an attempt to belittle me.

You’re crying because you can’t get a date. I’m not the one who’s being a child here.

Keep projecting, kid.

If you’re looking for something more than that from a relationship, then good! I wish more people had that mindset when dating. But don’t assume that everyone else is thinking the same thing you are.

Fair enough, maybe others are more shallow than you and I.

My friend broke up with his girlfriend of several years a while back, was real down about it, but within a month or two was already talking up girls. He just got back from going to the other end of country with a new girl and it hasn’t even been 6 months since his breakup.

I find it odd that you think those two things don’t involve bragging to people when they both involve putting your significant other on a pedestal and feeding you unrealistic fantasies about love.

Putting people on a pedestal isn’t bragging about them really. I guess it’s bragging about someone else to yourself? It’s not really what I’d consider bragging, at any rate. It’s not about inflating your own ego.

When people were reading Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey, were they not bragging? If not, then explain Team Edward.

How is rooting for a particular ending the same as bragging? I guess you could argue they brag when their side wins? Regardless, the point of romance fiction is to get a taste of what it feels like to be in love, not to get a taste of the associated status. Or at least, that’s what I’d expect from romance fiction and all I’ve ever seen from it in fanfiction.

So many people on here complaining about how hard dating is while I’m here crying over my first crush, who died in a car accident when I was 13.

We heard you the first ten times. How old are you now?

The real problem that I see is that most of you wanna brag about having someone around, like you’ve won a prize or something.

I think you’re fooling yourself if you genuinely that’s why most people seek companionship. It certainly isn’t my reason. And then the rest of your paragraph seems to fly in the face of that first sentence, talking about “the one” and harlequin books which are absolutely not about bragging to people (or at least I would assume). Sending a really mixed message here.

Pre-orders are bad.

Dating is a nightmare.

I can deduce your circumstance from your change in profile pic and I can safely you’ve made it farther than I ever have.

That would be golden, and the fangirls would be all over it.

I was just saying a context where nobody questions the morality of slavery is possible.

On the topic of slavery, I remember seeing this French video which despite knowing the title I can no longer find (presumably deleted) where they suggested the CIS was a parallel to the CSA and that in this context the slaves were droids.

Yub nub, eee chop yub nub
Ah toe mee toe pee chee keene
G’noop dock fling oh ah

Yah wah, eee chop yah wah
Ah toe mee toe peechee keene
G’noop dock fling oh ah

Coatee cha tu yub nub
Coatee cha tu yah wah
Coatee cha tu glowah
Allay loo ta nuv

Glowah, eee chop glowah
Ya glowah pee chu nee foom
Ah toot dee awe goon daa

Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
Coatee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
Coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!)
Allay loo ta nuv
Allay loo ta nuv
Allay loo ta nuv

Glowah, eee chop glowah
Ya glowah pee chu nee foom
Ah toot dee awe goon daa

Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
Coatee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
Coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!)
Allay loo ta nuv
Allay loo ta nuv
Allay loo ta nuv

I can see how that could work.

On a related note, apparently the idea of slavery being immoral was completely unheard of in the ancient world, even among people who had been slaves themselves, so you could make the Separatists the ones against slavery. Might not work as well though.

You know how we were talking about making the Clone Wars about abolishing slavery? That doesn’t really work because the Republic are the ones using a literal slave army.

God, this movie just shoots itself in the foot every chance it gets.

That’s what makes it so fascinating.

I don’t think it needs to be explained how borderline Force god Darth Sidious knows this tidbit of information. He could probably read her mind.

If you like the idea of Marvel movies to TV you check out my Spider-Man thread.

What would be the thing that leads Anakin to turn him in in the end?

In Canon the term Bendu denotes people who are between light and dark, which honestly makes more sense imo. Bogan is just a word for the Dark Side, btw.