I’ve been saying since the movie came out that it should have ended on the shot of Leia and the resistance standing together as Rey flies away to find Luke. Then her finding Luke could be the beginning of ep8. People around these parts seemed to get very up in arms about that suggestion at the time.
While that would somewhat ‘mirror’ the way both the A NEW HOPE/THE PHANTOM MENACE movies ended in a ‘group’ shot finale (before continuing with their respective ‘trilogy’ sequels), I ruled it out for myself as I’d prefer to include a bit more of the existing TFA end footage and music personally. However, if that’s what you’d choose for yourself Darth Lucas, then it’s as valid an option as any other I reckon.
But did you notice that the ‘group’ shot of everyone ‘waving’ was actually moving BACKWARDS in that clip I showed? Despite some of the people now running backwards(!) in 'Jyndir’s version, I can certainly see where he is coming from concerning the motion of that particular shot (which comes after the Falcon initially takes off) - and I kinda wish that J.J. had ‘zoomed OUT’ during it (just like 'Jyndir’s version shows), instead of having ‘zoomed IN’ during the shot. No biggie in the scheme of things however.
@ littlv87 - it seems that ‘Jyndir’ is intending to do his own fan edit of the whole movie eventually, which will include that ending of his. Perhaps he’ll end up uploading it at some point for others when he does.
@ DominicCobb - I remember that you pretty much loved the existing movie just as it was overall, as did many others of course. And that’s great - I guess it just comes down to individual tastes, as there’s no particular ‘right’ way or ‘wrong’ way for anyone to re-edit certain scenes for their own preference at the end of the day. I mentioned in my previous post that I’m not certain yet if I’m including Luke at the end of my version or not…but I don’t happen to see his exclusion as being any more of an as-yet-unanswered ‘cliffhanger’ than the existing ending gives us already, considering neither Rey or Luke said anything to each other!
Just to clarify, I’m looking on these new ‘Sequel Trilogy’ movies as if they’re the ‘second-half’ of ONE complete storyline, and the ‘conclusion’ of the overall ‘saga’ of Luke Skywalker in particular (whereas the ‘first half’ of the story was comprised of the ‘Original Trilogy’ movies) - and I don’t necessarily need to see Luke’s physical involvement in the first instalment of this ‘second-half’ of the overall story - meaning I’m equally content to have him just ‘mentioned’ in the initial scroll, and only ‘discussed’ by others in this first ‘Sequel Trilogy’ instalment…because we’ll eventually get to see his ongoing storyline played out to it’s conclusion across the next 2 instalments anyway, I presume.
And I’ve described my ideal ‘viewing order’ for how I’d eventually watch this whole storyline (while including re-edited versions of the prequels as a ‘flashback’ storyline MID-WAY through), on this page here recently - www.originaltrilogy.com/topic/What-is-your-personal-canon/id/50203/page/4