It can still be a moment like that, the music that plays just frames what Kylo said immediately prior as a big revelation when we already sort of know the info he’s saying in this version. I think putting a more subtle track like Kylos theme or maybe a slower imperial March cue could work there instead. The I am your father scene had a similar score instead of the big buildup reveal cue that TROS has.
I suppose so. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I think it’s best to play to the strengths we have throughout the saga for an edit like TROS. That was my mindset going into this whole process. It’s like a puzzle, and we just had to find the right pieces and arrange them in such a way that respects as much as possible from what came before. Without playing favorites to any particular episode. Hopefully we’ve already accomplished this.
It’s so much easier to simply delete everything that you don’t like in editing - to delete everything that contradicts that middle chapter in our case. I think that sort of defeats the purpose of there even being another film set after it in the first place. TLJ ends in such a way that doesn’t leave a whole lot open, after all, besides moving on to a new saga. Which is why I strongly believe Rian Johnson should have directed Episode IX, not VIII.
Therefore, I feel any edit of TROS is obligated to extend beyond what was presented in TLJ in term’s of Rey’s origin/destiny. She had clearly already accepted her inner conflict in that movie, that her parents were worthless nobodies. In the interest of making the entire saga feel like one big story, her purpose in life really did deserve a second look. But JJ and Terrio went about it in the wrong way by giving her the same blood as the overarching villain, instead of linking her directly to the Skywalkers - who this is all about.
All that being said, what you have posted there for a Rey Nobody edit is pretty good. It’s giving Rey a predetermined fate beyond being a nobody that she needs to rise above. But the main reason I could never get behind the Rey Nobody edit is it cannot hope to explain why Rey has a comparable power level to a bloodline created by the Force itself. Yes, normal people give birth to powerful Force users all the time in the Star Wars universe, but none THAT powerful. Yes, Palpatine himself was one of those born to normal people that becomes obscenely powerful, but even fully engulfed in the dark side he admits that Anakin has more potential than him and Yoda in ROTS. Rey taking on the Skywalker name in an edit like this cements this awful idea, for me at least, that her character is purely wish fulfillment. I’m hoping that the alternative backstory we’ve collaborated on is enough to make both her level of power and her taking on the name of Skywalker feel deserved/warranted.