Octorox said:
By removing it, you’re also robbing the movie of the only significant action setpiece in the first act (and arguably the only unique or visually interesting setpiece in the entire movie), which makes it feel like a bit of an exposition dump for the first 20 minutes or so. RoS as-is isn’t much more than a pretty roller coaster ride. I wouldn’t try to rob it of one of the few elements that works.This would be my counterargument for keeping it too, but if the rationale is “I just don’t like it and I think it sucks” there’s really no way to talk someone out of that, haha.
Beyond that I actually think the biggest wound that will be felt in edits that cut the scene out is that with the music building up and the TIEs chasing after them, cutting there really feels like you’re abruptly cutting the sequence short.
Apologies for my contributions to this thread becoming less “Hal’s prospective edit” thread and more like the unofficial replacement “general edit ideas” thread, but I guess that’s one of the side-effects of so many very talented people congregating in here and making “what ifs” into mock-up reality at lightning speed. Forums are sometimes like that - you put up guardrails but when everyone at the party notices there’s a bunch of really cool stuff happening in the living room, people will crowd in there and start spilling drinks while they dance 😃
again, apologies. Thanks for hearing us all out and being so patient.
I’m sure Hal would be the first to admit that he’s encouraged and enabled these sorts of discussions. And some great stuff has come out of them too. I just think out of respect for Hal and thread cleanliness in general, once he says he’s pursuing a certain idea, it’d be better to move further discussion of it to the general thread.