Anakin Starkiller

This is absolutely fascinating. Definitely saving this!

Z6PO said:

You’re a fascist. (Did I hit you hard enough?)

Anyway, I don’t see this becoming an issue in the show itself. As much as I hate woke culture, I have yet to see any Star War content embrace it. Any problems with the series’s recent output have nothing to do with some “political agenda”. It’s mass media for general audiences, so it’s kept as apolitical as possible. At most you get the hilariously pitiful passive progressive bits like the infamous lesbian kiss in TRoS. I’m all for gay representation but that was just insulting. I guess you could argue there’s merit in treating it with subtlety in the long run to destigmatize it, but it didn’t come off that way.

I can’t wait for release dates and trailers to start rolling out. This is going to be a great year for Star Wars fans (Acolyte is 2023).

I can’t help but think back to that video someone linked in the Rangers of the New Republic thread about how every announced project is a Schrodinger’s Cat until they start filming. Then again, I suppose casting is a good sign.

And you say this is going to be a great year then specify that The Acolyte is next year? I’m a little confused here.

https://youtu.be/EPcNc4eHh_I

Well if we’re gonna do that, might as well go all the way and split the Saga into a 25 season television show.

Can they give us something delving into all that Whills deeplore? That’d be nice.

Rodney-2187 said:

I find very few youtube channels I enjoy listening too regarding Star Wars. Star Wars Explained is one, and sometimes Hello Greedo. The rest are tiresome and I refuse to reward their click-bait efforts.

Have you tried Mr. Sunday Movies? Pure charisma and good laughs all around, never too serious. Obviously not a Star Wars centric channel but they do cover it.

Amandla Stenberg goes by both ‘she’ and ‘they’, is lesbian, and is an outspoken feminist

I’m very glad to learn a little bit more about the series as it’s one of the upcoming projects I’m most intrigued by

Me too, but did we really learn anything here besides the lead actress?

Fang Zei said:

Anyone else remember when Labyrinth of Evil came out right before the final episodes of the Tartakovsky clone wars and we basically got to see the EU contradict itself in real time?

See this is why Doctor Who doesn’t do canon.

Do you guys think Lucas had any intention of ever making a Sequel trilogy between 1983 and 2010?

It seems to me like it was something he abandoned with RotJ and only started exploring the concept in the lead-up to the buyout thinking if they were gonna do it anyway might as well do it right. I mean, this article makes it clear he hired someone else to write, something he never did on the Prequels (besides a bit of help from Jonathan Hale on AotC, which I somehow doubt helped much). Also worth noting that his Sequels seamlessly evolved into the ones we got through a standard pre-production process.

So yeah, in summary, I don’t think there ever really was a “George Lucas Sequel Trilogy” so much as there was George Lucas as a creative consultant during the pre-production for TFA.

That article’s great, btw. Very comprehensive.

Perfect.

have Anakin’s Dark Deeds playing in the background

I just watched the Raimi Spider-Man films, so my instinct is to play the black suit theme.

Include tear-jerking flashbacks of baby Greedo being hit in the face by Anakin. A victim of the Sith his whole life.

Oh I love this.

Why did you need to redo the lightsabers? Can we at least what they look like now in comparison?

Why was the word “retarded” removed? Did you consider offensive?

How can you not? It’s satisfying! Or at least it is when you’re the one crunching. I guess it’s more the feel than the sound.

Mrebo said:

I did this quick edit just to see the gag but I think it’s too jokey. I’m on the fence whether to keep that single Jar Jar moment at all, in its proper place, but definitely cutting the first tongue shot. I go between not liking the antics and thinking a Gungan creature is not theoretically a bad idea that can work if toned down.

https://streamable.com/mhwxv4

Okay that is brilliant.

uplifting , motivational music

Try this.

You guys cut rathtars? Man, you guys are lame. 😀

The “sith” translation scene can totally be redone with new lines, add a filter to it (to kinda match what we saw in the movie if need be) and just wow.

That sounds like the perfect way to skip over the nonsensical Raiders of the Lost Ark scene with the dagger and the Death Star. I kinda want him to recite a rhyming riddle but Idk if the fact that C-3PO improvises a translation that rhymes is a bit too convenient. Nonetheless, a riddle of some sort could be interesting. It would even retain the treasure hunting aspect of the original dagger extension scene without the plot holes.

Really though, is the 3PO voice necessary for that? The movie gives him a different voice when his eyes turn red, and I think that makes more sense.

My thoughts exactly. It’s not Filoni regarding it as fanfiction, it’s Lucas.

Hal 9000 said:

• Add to Rey’s Force vision several overt mentions that she is Palpatine’s granddaughter.

Won’t that spoil what’s supposed to be a twist in TRoS?

Master Lawdog said:

These memes need to become their own thread at this point.

Mission accomplished.

Feel free to repost clips from the Ascendant thread or any other thread where these were shared.

CaptainFaraday said:

Eyepainter said:

Change the official logo of the resistance to a swastika, and digitally add one to the sleeve of every member of the resistance.

We may have just topped my Israel-Palestine idea for the actual worst edit idea in this thread.

No, Israel and Palestine is worse because it’s:

A) Current

B) Not an overused internet punchline

Replace the holographic tables from the war rooms in AotC (Geonosis) and RotS (Jedi Temple) with 2D ones like the one used in ANH for the Battle of Yavin.

So you’re saying it’s possible?

Would it be possible to eliminate the jitteriness in Obi-Wan’s lightsaber in ANH to make it look like the Prequel glowsticks? How 'bout the reverse and make Anakin’s in RotS pale and jittery? Would make for greater contrast and consistency. I guess it’s not worth the effort.

I am curious about the addition of the Force ghosts in the final scene with Rey and Palpatine. I sort of missed Mace (it would have been poetic justice for him to be there during the final defeat of the person who killed him) and Qui-Gon.

I don’t think Mace is an appropriate inclusion since he’s essentially an antagonist. Qui-Gon however I agree should be there, as he’s a major character in the film he appears in and would help tie the films together and make this Part 9/9 instead of Part 3/3.

I think this TikTok Text-to-Speech thing might just be the most worthwhile breakthrough we’ve had since the invention of the NLE.

What is NLE?