So I was going over the v1 changelog again. I don’t know exactly what the discussion was around this back when the change was made, but here is something that bugged me: regarding Rey’s necklace being analyzed and then the trooper identifying our gang on Pasaana.
This was changed to: random trooper yells freeze at our gang for no reason (he doesn’t identify them as resistance fugitives. I guess they don’t look like natives, but still struck me as very odd, not having established that the FO knows their whereabouts), followed by the Lando scene being broken in two by the “we’ve identified the necklace” scene. I don’t really see how this benefits pacing honestly, and it kinda makes less sense because of what I said earlier, and (a minor thing) we have two shots of our gang running that previously had the “we’ve identified the necklace” scene between them, but now are kinda awkwardly stitched together.
What are y’all’s thoughts on this?
I agree with you - it also doesn’t make sense for the random stormtroopers to be be patrolling the Pasaana party A) because it’s a random desert planet that has the festival ever 42 years (priority target, guys), and B) because it doesn’t make sense for the natives to be putting on a puppet show mocking the First Order, when the First Order is right there. I even put together a mockup of them immediately running into Lando and skipping the stormtrooper entirely; but it was rejected for Ascendant. I’m also working on a potential workaround for the necklace tracking thing, so we’ll see how that goes! (Just waiting on some sound effects…)
EDIT: Alternatively, if you remove Necklace Tracking™ and the “The First Order has patrols here” line, you could play the scene as if Kylo set a trap for them on Pasaana. That’s probably the direction I’ll go with in my edit, honestly.