Here’s another ‘Inspired by’ change: https://youtu.be/BD5mLw0A8vI?t=876
He says that Rose should have been in charge of gathering reinforcements for the final battle. So would this be possible? As far as I can remember she is just hanging out at the Resistance base the entire movie, but could it be possible to insert some dialogue to indicate that she is busy calling up leaders of the core worlds and have them Rendzevous in some place? Then Lando could lead these gathered forces to the final fight.
Just watched this video! I had two ideas for this.
- We could potentially change Rose’s dialogue with Finn to where she could say she needed to contact more worlds to join the cause. This would probably require redubbing. Or some OS dialogue from the later briefing asks about reinforcements, and we cut to Rose and some kind of dialogue ties her to that objective.
- Could we potentially generate new scenes where Rose either speaks to other worlds through hologram or voice message, maybe? Or if we could imply she is going on a mission for Leia, then we see her board a ship and then that ship travels to different planets during some kind of montage? It is hard to say without having this film burned in my memory.
Geez, the stuff he mentions about Kylo’s arc bothers me. I don’t think TLJ ended necessarily with the implication he was beyond redemption, though. I think RJ left enough room so that the next director could go either way. But if you were going with redemption, I really do feel it would have worked better if his turn came earlier in the film, like the end of Act 1 or beginning of Act 2. Maybe the First Order leaders try to depose him but he survives (thanks to Leia somehow) and he has a come to Jesus moment and meets up with the heroes. Then we could see Ben Solo, not Kylo Ren, interact with Rey, Finn and Poe and have more dialogue beyond “Ow”. But, that’s another story.
I do wonder if dialogue for Kylo could be altered to make it appear his heart is not completely in it even before his redemption moment. I really feel like a flashback scene with young Ben Solo could’ve helped create even more sympathy for his character. Either a scene of him leaving to go to Luke’s temple, or of him being manipulated by Snoke/Palpatine through dreams from a young age. The latter would be great as a reminder to the audience that he has been groomed since childhood to turn to the dark side. It would’ve had a bigger impact on the story than a brief flashback of Luke and Leia training…
I think his FinnPoe thoughts are pretty fair, and it makes me want to remove any blatant indication of other romances for Finn or Poe (with Zorri, Jannah, or even Rose), so it would be still open for interpretation.