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Post #1365685

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jarbear
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
27-Jul-2020, 3:33 PM

JakeRyan17 said:

jarbear said:

Hal 9000 said:

Eh, we just start the scene with the Palpatine message already playing, concluding right before Rose asks, “Do we believe this?” The audience doesn’t need to be told it’s Palpatine; we met him already.

It feels like people are getting all hooked up on the resistance not hearing something or having something played for them? Palps has been revealed to the audience, does their need to be some like … more confirmation of that? The resistance is already surprised by this and can’t believe it … do what’s the issue? I’m trying to follow this rational but don’t quite get it.

Because he was revealed to the Audience, not the Resistance. There are a lot of things that get revealed to the audience but not the heroes, such as Chewie’s survival. If it’s a major foundation to the motivation of the heroes, it should be in the film.

They decode the intel and Poe says “Palpatine is alive.” They learn of his “survival/revival” from the message. So … it is revealed to them. They get intel from a spy and then tell their group what it says, in which Palps is alive. So … yeah. It is revealed. Both sides know he is alive without them literally having to hear and/or see stuff with the audience. Again. The audience knows, they know it by confirming it on screen.

At the moment it feels like the idea is to shoe horn something in that is not necessary and using a goofy line to be honest.

We also do need to know this is a movie and “the visual and audio reveal” has happened. There is no need for both sides to get the same treatment on screen. They both acknowledge learning of it. No need to keep driving the point in.