Any ideas on how to keep Ben alive?
“as I once fell, so will the last Skywalker” is depressingly anticlimactic considering the title of the film.
- Ben has no consequences for healing Rey, matching how the power was shown the previous times it was used.
I mean, that wouldn’t match how it was used before, at least not the first time. In this scenario you’d want to cut out Rey clutching her hand after she healed the snake and her saying that she transferred some of her life to it. I feel like the people surprised by Ben’s death must have missed this, for me I knew right away when he climbed out of the pit what was going to happen.
- Cut Ben rising out of the pit, but add him to the Tatooine scene to confirm he survived the fall.
I don’t think you’d want to cut Ben climbing out of the pit. As well, I think you’d have to have him on Tatooine even if you don’t have him die after healing Rey.
I think Option 1 is by far the best, and someone on YouTube already posted a rough edit of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYXtnsjsf0I like the idea, but I wonder if it could be executed well. Even in that video, the reused shots are somewhat obvious.
Personally I don’t think that works at all and I don’t really see the point.