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Post #1436235

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hedgesmfg
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Date created
18-Jun-2021, 2:36 PM

The only thing I’ll say on the crawl itself is that the message from Palpatine and its general impact on the Galaxy is an important plot point for the first act that got completely glossed over/missed in the theatrical release, aside from a vague line in the crawl.

This has been partially addressed by restoring Palpatine’s ACTUAL voice message (a very good choice! better than a Fortnite promo!), but I still wish there was a way to imply that a message was influencing Kylo and others to act without necessarily spoiling the Palpatine reveal. The novel makes it very clear that Kylo and the First Order are acting because of an imposter threatening his power, and this was planned to be in the film on Mustafar but was needlessly cut down along with other bits like the Oracle/Bogg creature.

I can live with not putting it in the crawl, but if a happy medium were possible, it could help.