Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Redux Ideas thread — Page 148

Would be too hard to see probably

The red is so much more stimulating.

Blue lightsabers on a red background give a good “last flame of good in the environment most representative of bad” vibe.

I’m really against red lightning though, I don’t think we need a colour change to represent a higher power level like in a videogame.

If anything along those lines, I’d lean into the green mist which implies new, weirder magicks.

sade1212 said:

I love orange Exegol a bunch, but you’d have to do a lot of masking to being back the blue engines, blue lights on control panels, whatever colour lightning, etc. Ditto for the red lightning, which I’ve fiddled with myself in the past - very cool but a lot of masking needed to perfect it.

I’m trying to figure out if it’s easier to mask the red LUT lightning or just redo the effect like I’m doing with the crackling Saber. I’m willing to put the work in as I feel it really adds to this ending. What are your thoughts?

LepidusIII said:

Red Lightning absolutely has to stay. Not only does it work aesthetically, but it shows that Palpatine is at his strongest and “all the Sith”.

But, respectfully, I’m kind of arguing that “I’m even MORE strong” doesn’t really up the stakes. Just like “Starkiller base is even BIGGER than the Death Star” didn’t either. It didn’t add any emotional value for us.

What’s the more emotionally powerful moment- the massive fleet of strangers showing up at the end of TROS or Han returning to shoot Vader away followed by Luke’s one-in-a-million shot? One’s bigger, one features two great character beats that wins the day.

A starship that can destroy whole solar systems is not more exciting than one that can blow up planets, and a monster who can lightning a fleet isn’t more exciting than a monster who can lightning a person.

Emotional stakes come from relevance to the characters we care about, not from power levels. The relevance of this scene is Rey’s conflict with the temptation of darkness, and her need to protect her friends.

I’d propose that “I am all the sith” be removed instead, because it’s emotionally meaningless to add a new complexity to sith lore at this point that doesn’t add any value beyond power levels. It feels like an attempt to set up Rey’s “I am Iron Man” moment, which doesn’t need to be spoken when using jonh’s wonderful Jedi spirits shots.

The things that WOULD add value are anything which helps explain Palpatine’s return beyond “unnatural somehows”, for example putting Palps in the tanks instead of Snokes, and for my mileage, hints of unfamiliar magics (preferring green for the Nightsister angle).

Health bar is an easy addition. 🤣

Well, here’s the options. (Anything is possible) but in the animation just the lightning is red, obviously, it would be a nightmare drawing all the light reflections in the room etc. With live action should the lightning just be red or should it turn the whole surrounding area red?

My thoughts are when Palp hits his “ultimate power” that it turns everything red until Rey hears the voices of the Jedi. Then when she ignites the Saber it turns to just the red lightning as if the Saber is absorbing the power? That way I can do the cinematic red, blue, purple for the finale I explain here 22:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWy5RtoQMMc

Skenera has done an amazing LUT so it’s just a matter of knowing where to mask. I’m really split so any input would be Great?

EddieDean said:

The thing is we’ve already seen the real Palpatine get defeated by Vader. This is a Cloned version, yes he has taken power from the dyad but it still feels like a rehash. Adding red “ultimate power” lightning indicates a much bigger threat and this is why Rey needs both Sabers and the force ghosts to defeat him.

In the version I’m trying to create, It’s Leia’s purple lightning that finally kills Palps which is pushed by the force of “All the Jedi”.

Is it a clone? I thought it was now canonically Palpatine’s spirit inhabiting a Palpatine clone body? So, functionally the original Palpatine reborn.

It’s moot anyway I suppose, I think there’re two valid schools of thought here.

It is a clone, both canonically and in legends, its a clone body with Sidious’ soul inside trying to build to full strength. So, mentally it is Sidious, but also not cus cloning of force sensitives is extremely unstable.

Extremely crude example but shows how you may see the lightning affecting the surrounding area.

1. Does the light reflet into the whole room
2. Just red lightning like the animation series?

ThisIsCreation said:

Movies Remastered said:

I’m surprised they allowed him to post that on star wars reddit. I always get my stuff removed.

Not sure if he’s using a low quality source as there’s a lot of pixel distortion on my screen.

Red Exagol seems to be so much more dramatic. That’s kinda the effect I’m going for during the battle sequence. Nice!

They let him post it because the star wars section on reddit is now full of people who parrot each others opinions and seeing him “fix” the “shit” movie is why they allowed it.

It seems to be one rule for one and different rules for another. I’ve stopped posting on Reddit other than the fanedit page because of so much hostility and trolling.