I’m sorry. I’m not very good at gauging tone and tend to come off meaner than I intend. Could someone provide with an alternative wording to my earlier comment that would be considered not rude?
Apology accepted! On the face of it, without enough context or explanation, it can come off like a dumb idea for the very reason you mentioned. And in my haste to post, I probably didn’t make it clear enough that:
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It’s a Japanese-dubbed, English-subbed B&W edit of all three ST films broken into 15-20 min chapters, each with their own text prologue.
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I’m planning on using these extra prologues and massaged subtitles to help flesh out/change plot points.
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The Scarif footage plan is to focus on Jyn/Cassian/KSO’s break-in and squeeze in as much of the ground assault as comfortable & necessary for context, but leave out as much of the actual space-battle stuff as possible.
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The footage would be showing up at least halfway into the edit so I’ll have time to mention & hopefully reinforce the fact the FO is using both new tech AND Imperial-era surplus (which is where things like the Imperial-era Exegol fleet are drawn from), and Leia put together her Resistance cells using Rebel-era surplus that was abandoned, mothballed, or sold for scrap.
The Stormtrooper point is actually a good one and one I’ve thought about. For instance, I also want to put Cassian’s informant meetup earlier in the piece and the main red flag about that is the different trooper helmets. I’m hoping it will come off as if this FO detachment stuck policing a trading post is using out-dated equipment, aka old helmets. But it’s ultimately all in how the cut plays out.
And even if the ROGUE ONE footage plan doesn’t work, I would still have footage of Finn/Rose doing a similar type of enemy infiltration to do something that helps the attack on the Exegol fleet, just using the TLJ footage and marrying it with the Falcon scene from the beginning of ROTS and having Han flying the Falcon instead of Poe (which I might still do as well). But I’m trying to come up with the best reason for that infiltration (whomever does it) and I’m hitting a blank. Hence, the ask!