Star Wars is a fairy tale story, and one of the hallmarks is taking figurative things and making them fairly literal. I complain about TROS seeming to lose nuance, but at its core that’s sort of how these things go. Maybe I’m hypocritical on this point at times. I just don’t want to feel dumb, which is subjective. Maybe that’s why I’ve always preferred crafted stories to gaming, video or otherwise.

I hear both the ‘thousand generations’ and ‘you have everything you need’ as figurative and substantial beyond their technical plot meanings.

Also, here’s how the added line would sound, fully implemented as nicely as I could get it. I used reversed footage for the Rey shot, but ideally interpolated frames would help further. Again, this change merits an extreme “meh” from me, but I mocked it up and we’ll see what you guys think: