I think I’ve mentioned wanting to cut the medallion in here before. I’m not really crazy about some of the edits you have to make to have it work, but it is a really egregious piece of business. As if the film needed yet another mcguffin to explain.

Anyway the thing I realized too is that without it there’s kind of no reason to suspect that Zorii hasn’t left Kijimi, so the weight of destroying the planet isn’t really there. So if you cut the medallion you gotta go whole hog and cut the planet destroying weapons too, I feel. Which I’m not 100% against but personally I don’t really find necessary. So that’s why I’m saying it’d be an alternate cut.

The other alternate cut thing I’m toying with is removing “Rey Skywalker,” and replacing with “Just Rey.” The thing here is I kinda wonder if you do that, do you then need to change the title at that point. Arguably the idea that Rey is fulfilling the Skywalker legacy remains but I feel like the film as is is too messy to get that point across enough for it to be the title without this scene, if that makes sense. I don’t like changing titles, so that’s where “alternate cut” comes in. In this scenario, I’d name it Duel of the Fates to at least be in keeping with what was at one point the title of the film officially.