I really like your thoughts on the matter, Sherlock!

Instead of the father saving the son, you would have the son save the mother.

I agree that IX would’ve been more interesting to focus solely on Kylo trying to be the big bad as everything fell apart around him. I feel like this could still be accomplished somewhat in a “Palpatine-less” edit, like joshuabri’s edit. I think simply removing Palpatine’s influence naturally gives Kylo a lot more agency in the film. Hopefully joshuabri’s work can lead to more edits that are even more polished.

If I were to do it, I think I would have Kylo not kill Rey out of a brief moment of self-reflection, rather than Leia calling out to him to basically say, “Don’t do that.”

Has anyone done an edit where Leia lives? I’m not really sure how you would manage to do it, though.