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Post #1674472

Author
Jar Jar Bricks
Parent topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Vader's Legacy Edition (WIP)
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Date created
15-Jan-2026, 11:11 AM

Alright, through some clever re-ordering of scenes, I think I can just completely avoid Finn talking about Ochi needing to go to Jakku to find Rey. I think it’s really important to not muddy up that sequence of events any more than it already is - Ochi should never know about Rey thanks to her parents protecting her with their lives. I think it works much better if we assume Palpatine only realizes Rey is his granddaughter during the sequels themselves. So here’s how it would work:

The last scene before we go to Rey on Ahch-To is when Finn and D-0 talk about missing Rey. Finn says: “So what’s your name?” and then we go right into the Ahch-To sequence.

When we come back from there, and do the Threepio memory restoration scene, we slip in the scene where Poe promotes Finn and Finn says that D-0 has a bunch of information on Exegol. Instead of then talking about Ochi for no reason, we go right into them learning that information. Here is a rough test of how this would work:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nSoEkH1KPgiF0IE_qD9f8dUm7DBsrq9p/view?usp=sharing

I’d probably just remove the music from the scene I moved over so that it transitions into the next part more smoothly.