Star Wars Fan Edit Discussion Thread

Basically, this is a thread specifically for talking about, for example, any positives or negatives of any specific Star Wars-related fan edit. Discuss…

I am kinda against explicitly foreshadowing Palpatine’s return in any of the first eight movies (Palpatine’s immortality interest, Vader’s “Death Star’s insignificant next to the Force power”, the music, Snoke’s similarities to Palps, and “Show me AGAIN, the power of the darkness” don’t count as “explicit foreshadowing”).

The whole point of TLJ is, by the end of the movie, that hope has been reignited, that the First Order will be destroyed, Luke even inspires the galaxy with his return, having come to terms with his legacy. The broom boy ending shows that Luke’s inspired hope, and the boy himself is hopeful, even in slavery.

If Palpatine had been set up in TLJ, it would take that way, that hope would all be meaningless since we would know that Palpatine is just going to come back and ruin everything.

EDIT: I think I’m on the verge of changing my mind. TLJ was always going to have a sequel, and it’s literally Episode VIII. It could never have been an Episode IX. Plus, I think this criticism might be hypocritical enough to be applied to the Marvel movies and such.

I haven’t seen any of Adywans edits as of yet as by the time I had even heard and got into viewing the fanedits he had already started his Revisited-HD.

Over the last couple of months tho I have been very fortunate to be able to view edits by Hal9000, Captain Faraday, Eyepainter, Digmodification and Poppasketti and I will say that what they have done and achieved is nothing short of remarkable, After buying the Blu Rays I honestly felt let down and annoyed but after seeing what the fans have done🤯 it has totally renewed my interest in Star Wars again.

To revisit my thoughts on hinting at Palpatine’s return in TFA or TLJ. I’m leaning in the middle, whether it does (as if the Death Star II were slapped at the end of ESB despite it being hopeful) or whether it’s otherwise.

However, I do want to see your guys’ thoughts as to whether it would ruin TLJ’s theme of hope or otherwise. As in, if it does, could you explain why? Or if it doesn’t, could you explain why?

Whether it does what?