Can you imagine the day when we can all sit back and watch the complete revisited OT and these sequels as one huge marathon! š
I actually started doing that with some friends of mine a few months ago when I discovered these edits. I somehow just assumed by the time we got to TROS that thereād be a Rey Nobody version complete or close to it. I hadnāt considered at that point just how much goes into making these things, even before scope creep set in.
And yeah, I think the past few weeks have been a visual representation of that scope creep. A lot of really intense argument over single lines that just donāt matter all that much except in isolation. And hey, I did it too, Iām not pretending to be innocent here. But likeā¦okay, I like MRās āWeāll always be with youā, right? But in the theater, I canāt say the lack of that line or a line like it was what I thought the movie was in dire need of, you know?
Maybe I just respond better to big visual changes (actually scratch that, I certainly do), but a lot of these minor dialogue squabbles read as kind of silly to me in a series where Lukeās final pivotal character moment has him say āIāll not leave youā in complete earnest.