Personally, I still really dislike the idea of a prophecy/chosen one angle for the film. Like I’ve said before in the thread, I don’t like how Rey is special because she’s a Palpatine, and how she’s doubly-special as part of a mythical Force Dyad™; if she’s triply-special because she’s a Chosen One, I may just lose it haha. (Plus, we’d have to rework it again anyway for the Rey Nobody version; so I think we should just come up with one plot thread that can be used in both edits.)
There’s also a problem with that structurally: We’d be trying to introduce a legendary, galaxy-defining prophecy in the eleventh hour of the entire trilogy, let alone the saga. It would have to be set up, explained, and resolved, all in an hour or so. Aside from the massive disconnect it would add in regards to the previous two movies, it would just be unsatisfying storytelling, imo. I see what you’re going for, jarbear; but I have a lot of misgivings about it.
I actually don’t think we need to specify Endor for Jannah to make sense:
JANNAH: Rough landing.
POE: I’ve seen worse.
JANNAH: I’ve seen better. Are you Resistance?
POE: That depends.
JANNAH: We picked up a transmission from someone named Babu Frik.
C-3PO: Babu Frik? Oh, he’s one of my oldest friends.
JANNAH: He said you’d come. He said you were the last hope.
REY: We have to get to that wreck. There is something inside there we need.
We could just recut it to:
JANNAH: Rough landing.
POE: I’ve seen worse.
JANNAH: I’ve seen better.
REY: We have to get to that wreck. There is something inside there we need.
If we really wanted, maybe we could add in a line from someone saying “We’re with the Resistance.” But I think it actually makes more sense if neither side identifies their political affiliations to strangers they’ve just met, brandishing weapons, in the middle of a war, the dumb f*cks.
Maybe we could smooth over the cut with Rey saying something like “Stop, please, we have to get to that wreck”?
I mean, let’s be honest, it’s stupid as hell anyway. Babu decides to send a (apparently non-encrypted) transmission to Ewok Moon, on the off chance that there will just happen to be people there (not just on Endor in general, but within spitting distance of the Death Star II), that those people will be sided against the First Order, and that they’ll want to help the heroes. God, I hope there aren’t any stormtroopers or Sith Cultists or Imperial supporters or bounty hunters or assassins or scavengers at this location that’s apparently still rife with Imperial technology and Voodoo Sith artifacts. Can you imagine random people scavenging Imperial relics?? Unthinkable.
Obviously Babu and Jannah have no prior association. “from someone named Babu Frik.” Babu’s on the black market, and presumably operates in secret. Why would he send a transmission??
Like, God, what was he thinking? Actually though, what was he thinking? Can we cut that out of the film regardless of its implications on the Dagger™ plotline?