Oh I agree. Personally I’m leaning more towards IIFaneditor’s concept, except I would change the dialogue so that it goes like this.
“what’s the message?”
-holographic/transmission sound-
“At last the work of generations is complete, the day of victory is at hand, the day of sith.
Send the fleet to the galaxy…let it burn.
The Final order begins”
“Yes my lord”All that transpired regarding the rise and fall of the repulic is addressed as the work of generations. Same reaction shots, more context to the story. Spy plot is teased. Best of ALL, no half arsed introduction from Poe.
A few birds with one stone, if you ask me.Sounds great on paper! Any option that drops “Somehow Palpatine returned” is a welcome change.
+1 Hard agree here.
While I sit firmly with the majority in having a rather colourful opinion towards a good chunk of TROS’ narrative choices - particularly with how villain-of-the-week Palpatine’s role ultimately ends up being - I still can gladly accept the base story that we were given and try to go along for the ride with it.
But man - that line… Perhaps it’s only me that has as an extreme aversion to it, but every time I get to that point I always without fail get pulled out of the film. It just… doesn’t work? It feels so “real-world” and un-filmic.
As I pitched a few pages back, even just making the line “…It confirms the worst… [Pause] Palpatine.” It would tame how jarring it feels at least partially (not fully, mind you).
But honestly, I’d be happy with just about anything that keeps the moment from feeling like a script editing intern accidentally labelled one of the screen directions as a character line but nobody higher up noticed until it was way too late into production to feasibly fix.
This is really my only major gripe against what will otherwise assuredly be my definitive version of TROS. Seriously amazing work Hal and everyone else involved.