Hi again Acbagel, and once again thank you for sharing your ST edits with me. Like I previously mentioned I haven’t seen or read any of the legends material, so what you may be trying to achieve with your edit I might not see or realise why you made that change.
OK out of the 3 ST this one is the hardest mainly for me personally because I have only seen the theatrical version once (I do own the Blu-ray, but have only seen this movie in the cinema) the other times I have viewed TROS have all been fan edits so some of your changes I may have missed (which should be a good thing as this means everything has blended and flowed smoothly).
So I’ll start with the good.
😬Ummmm…
Haha yikes! Would you say the theatrical release is better than this cut then, or just that you don’t like the original or this attempt to fix it?
Ok things I wasn’t a fan of or didn’t like (this is just me personally and only giving my personal thoughts and opinions)
- We see Kylo drop the decapitated head of the alien spy on the table during their briefing with commanders, Later we see the same Alien giving Poe and Finn info about the first order. I think I know what you are trying to achieve with that cut but for maybe a first time viewer it may be a bit confusing.
If you re-watch and actually compare the two scenes you will see that the two aliens you are talking about actually have different color skin tones. However, I don’t think that even matters too much because in Star Wars many species appear nearly identical to a human eye. Imagine looking at two of these Bith and trying to tell them apart https://www.starwars.com/databank/bith . Either way, I do understand from a storyteller perspective that when a new alien species is introduced in these scenes that it could potentially be confusing to people who aren’t used to processing this type of thing, but from a large plot picture point of view it isn’t really a plot hole at all and I’m okay with people having to stop and think after the movie to put two and two together here.
- The end Kylo lives, I appreciate the work you did to achieve this but for me personally it just didn’t work, especially when we see him boarding the falcon, I was like WTF 🤷 lol.
By “just didn’t work” what do you mean exactly? Didn’t work from a story-telling standpoint, from a graphic effects standpoint? Some more info would help here, just not sure what you mean to say.
I’m sorry I haven’t left anything positive for this edit, I know it is a mess of a movie to begin with but the major changes that were made just didn’t work for me personally.
No worries, I understand it’s nothing personal! Do you have any suggestions on how a fan editor would possibly fix the movie? Have you seen any episode 9 edits that you think improved upon the original and what did they do better than this cut? When I get around to releasing final versions of my trilogy next year I want to make sure I release the best product possible so any ideas from viewers are helpful. How can we take what Disney released and transform it into something that works with my Legends cuts?
I honestly and truthfully enjoyed and love your TFA and TLJ edits and am looking forward to seeing the full finished edit but for me this one is a big miss.
Thank you once Acbagel and please take care.
Thank you for your time with my trilogy and writing all of your reviews. I look forward to completing this project in the future and your feedback has been helpful. Glad you really enjoyed the first 2 at least!