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Post #1422863

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CaptainFaraday
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Unusual Sequel Trilogy Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
8-Apr-2021, 8:45 PM

Has anyone tried to imply DJ was always the Master Codebreaker Maz was sending them after in TLJ?

My reasoning: we’re told there’s only one man with that set of skills, which is why they have to go to this one specific place which was highly inconvenient for them… then they happen to find a second man with the exact same set of skills by absolutely coincidence in a place they randomly end up in nearby. It just strains credulity past breaking point for me.

My two ideas of how to achieve it:

  1. Somehow add a red plomme bloom to DJ’s introduction in the prison cell. Maybe he uses it to pick the lock instead of the hairclip thing he uses. Then, you can dub in Finn and Rose yelling “The Master Codebreaker!” to each other when he leaves the cell (their faces are luckily obscured in the wide shot where they turn and speak excitedly to each other).
    Pros: you retain everyone saying the phrase “red plomme bloom,” which I find funny and endearingly Star-Wars-y, especially when Finn and Rose declare it with such gusto. It’s a less intrusive change to the rest of the movie.
    Cons: would require at least one VFX shot from one of the visual wizards here to add the plomme bloom brooch in place of the hairclip/key/thing.

  2. Remove reference to the red plomme bloom, the Master Codebreaker is just someone they have to find on Canto Bight.
    Pros: relatively simple to implement.
    Cons: you lose the “red plomme bloom” references, and requires cutting the movie more intrusively. You’d also have to find a way for them to declare that DJ is the Master Codebreaker to each other when he breaks out of the cell.