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Humby
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Unusual Sequel Trilogy Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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23-May-2020, 2:47 AM

thebluefrog said:

There may be a way to do an edit that shaves off all the extra pointless characters and mixes TLJ and ROS into a more coherent storyline.

I was actually thinking of a ST edit that removes Snoke! Well - almost. It would trim him down to just a few lines speaking only in Kylo Ren’s head. All appearances and references to him by name be cut. The First Order has no supreme leader, they are just Imperial remnant. Kylo Ren joined the First Order on his own accord and with his obsession with Vader in mind (who’s voice also speaks to him a few times).

Kylo communing with disembodied voices will kind of evolve from film to film- in TFA Kylo Ren will be guided by the mystery voice of Snoke, taunting him about not being as good as Vader. In TLJ, Kylo will still be communing with Snoke, but he will also begin to hear from the voice of Vader a few times, which sends him off to Mustafar in the end (but we don’t go there until the beginning of TROS). Then in TROS he learn the truth that it was Palpatine all along.

Obviously there would be plenty of logistical issues, for example the entire Throne Room scene from TLJ is gone automatically, Rey leaves Luke and then immediately lands on Crait to rescue the team. Those are some pretty important beats in the flow of that movie, so there would be a lot of collateral damage that would need mending.

But overall I think a big change like this, which would force plenty of smaller changes and cuts, could really help to clean up the story without asking the audience to roll their eyes any more than they already are with the official releases.