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Post #1379883

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sade1212
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Redux Ideas thread
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9-Oct-2020, 9:16 AM

Just got back from seeing the brand-new Star Wars sequel in the theatres - you know, The Empire Strikes Back? It was fine and all, but I really didn’t understand how Luke got his lightsaber out of the snow. I don’t remember Ben ever saying anything about telekinesis being a force power, so I was very confused. And then Darth Vader used it later in the film to throw stuff at Luke! Why didn’t he throw stuff at Ben when they were fighting in Star Wars? Plot hole! They should’ve gotten me to write the sequel.

On a more relevant note: editing Palps’ lightning to be red when he’s zapping the fleet would require a lot of work, since there’s a few shots of it lingering on the ships, and Exegol’s so blue that you’d have a hard time trying to limit a hue adjustment to just the lightning without doing a bunch of manual masking/rotoing. I chose the shots with Rey for my test since they’re composed such that all the lightning is on one side of the screen and bunched together, making it more straightforward to work with. I am a total amateur though; perhaps some VFX God like Jonh could pull it off.

Palps’ costume change is pretty weird; the rest of his appearance makes sense as him being juiced up on dyad energy, but it’s not addressed why or how the fabric of his robe turns red as a consequence of that. To some extent, this further justifies not needing to explain the red lightning. TROS runs very heavily on ‘rule of cool’ and I think leaning into that with Jonh’s force ghosts, red lightning, fanservice rescores etc. works better than trying to edit around it. You could rather straightforwardly black out the red bits, but it’s not that big of a deal. The opposite - adding red to his earlier costume - would be much more work.

Edit: It has come to my attention that the official Rise of Skywalker teaser poster features red lightning, meaning it is actually more canon than the movie itself, since the poster came out first. /s