Cut Moff Gideon survival reveal scene and added as post credits scene.
doesn’t this sort of blow the whole “classic Star Wars” vibe you’re going for all by itself?
It seems sort of jarring to adhere so strongly to main saga convention and then make a Marvel gimmick the last thing anyone sees.
Not at all. It’s removal means that the end scene is Much more like a classical Star was movie with a long, music driven closing scene. I was originally intending to cut it completely. Putting it at the end is just a way of keeping it in the movie In some form. When I view it I’ll be ignoring it.
I would cut it completely or move it earlier. The post-credit scene is just too un-Star Wars. You could put it immediately after he crashes, or just not have it. To me, it’s nice to know the villain survived, which is pretty classic Star Wars. Just move it before the scene with the heroes and music swelling. Or let him pop up, miraculously surviving, in the next movie for season two without that scene.
I’d argue that it’s more “Star Wars” to not know whether the villain has survived or not… Darth Maul, Boba Fett, The Emperor
Moving it earlier just doesn’t work for the ending when you view it as a whole movie… it feels like the ending of a TV series.
All three of those examples are retcons. If you look at Darth Vader in A New Hope, Boba Fett and Vader in Empire Strikes Back, Sidious/Palpatine in Phantom Menace, Dooku and Palpatine in Attack of the Clones, Vader and Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith…
There was almost always a final shot of the villain ensuring we knew there was an ongoing threat just before the heroes reunited and had the hopeful look into the distance shot with swelling music before the circle-wipe transition to the credits.