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Post #1344375

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NeverarGreat
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Redux Ideas thread
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12-May-2020, 5:14 PM

So I watched TROS again a couple of days ago and took some notes as to potential edits:

  • Since Kylo is oddly communing with Vader’s mask after Palps tells him he’s been ‘every voice in his head’, it might work to place this scene right after the opening crawl. The mask could be Vader telling him exactly where to find the wayfinder on Mustafar. Cut to him slaughtering the Cultists.

  • As a benefit to moving Kylo’s mask communing scene, Rey’s training montage could be uninterrupted by Kylo. Just show her vision, preferably cut like Dom’s proof of concept. Also, have Rey merely say ‘I’m starting to think it’s impossible’ and cut the ‘contact the spirits of the Jedi’ since that is implied.

  • Cut line from Leia saying she always knew Palps was out there, especially in a Rey Nobody edit.

  • Cut Rey’s line explaining her healing powers. Show, don’t tell.

  • Obviously, Chewie’s survival reveal should be delayed or cut. I would argue for it being cut entirely since the music in that scene doesn’t work anyway.

  • Cut Luke’s line ‘You’ll take both sabers’. We see them both later anyway, and if Leia’s becomes purple then it’s obvious.

  • Shift the arrival of the Resistance until after Rey meets Palpatine.

I stopped taking notes after this point because I became violently bored and started flipping the bird at everything that was happening. I don’t think I’ll be watching this movie again in its entirety, since now even the humorously terrible things are no longer humorous to me.

I also realize after seeing it again that it’s highly unlikely any Palpatine as illusion plot would work since he is unmoored from the mechanical arm by the end.