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Post #1266249

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RogueLeader
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Unusual Sequel Trilogy Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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25-Jan-2019, 6:10 PM

One thing that I have been considering for The Last Jedi that I have mentioned before is the idea of showing Hux’s Star Destroyer “lock on” to the Raddus during the battle in order to track it through hyperspace. We never really know how exactly they are tracking them through hyperspace, maybe they are somehow tracking some kind of “footprint” or “shadow” the Raddus is leaving through hyperspace, or maybe they have sliced into the Raddus’ navigational computer.

Regardless, I think if we saw an image of the Raddus on one of their computer monitors, as well as some kind of loading bar (to reflect the loading bar of Poe’s booster engine), it would add a few things to the story. For one, we wouldn’t know what the loading bar was for until later in the film, so when we hear about Hux having them “tied at the end of a string” and discovering they have tracked them through hyperspace, it has kind of been set up by this graphic.

To make it work, I figured you could cut to the screen toward the beginning of the scene, again some point after Poe ignores Leia’s order and showing the bar halfway loaded, and later after the Raddus has escaped, but now we see it is complete. Basically, it would show that if Poe had listened to Leia, then they wouldn’t have been able to track them through hyperspace. It just helps shows Poe’s fallibility a little more. Also, it makes Hux seem a little more competent towards the beginning of the film, since it would help explain why Hux wouldn’t want to immediately chase the Resistance off by swarming it with laser fire or TIE Fighters and it helps explain Hux’s overconfidence later in the film as well.

Anyway, when I went back to look at the computer monitors in that scene, I noticed that in both instances we see it (the radar screen and the communication screen), they are actually the exact same shot but with different graphics and slightly different color grades.


Just thought that was interesting. Not sure if it would be better to replace one of them entirely or flip one of the shots to get a third insert for the tracking screen.