Since you reminded me, I went ahead and replaced the DOTF snippet with the actual OST in higher quality. I put it in place where it was, and extended it backward to the beginning of the track.
What do you guys think? Too heavy?
Haven’t responded in a while, but just wanted to say I really liked this here. Anyone arguing Sequel music would fit better thematically for Rey and Kylo’s final duel than a Prequel reference is totally fair, but if you’re okay with “it’s a reference to the cancelled IX script” or “the chronological final duel rhymes with the chronological first duel” or even just “I want to hear DotF dang it,” I think it works really well here. It’s dramatic and menacing and different enough from the Phantom Menace version that it doesn’t feel like… well, a fan just ripped it from another movie and threw it in. And as for “too heavy,” I think it wasn’t heavy enough in v1. Now it’s long and loud enough to leave an impact, where as in v1 it was so quiet and short that I wouldn’t have noticed it was there if I hadn’t been following this thread.
Also, watching/listening again, I think this new music helps in a way I hadn’t considered before: it’s so full of dread, it feels like the whole fight is just something bad happening, rather than a battle of good vs evil, which I think works. If you could say that music is “from a character’s perspective,” this music is from Finn’s perspective, thrown back violently and helpless forced to watch as Rey gives in to hate.