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Delpheas said:

Very excited to watch this and HttF, and really intrigued to see how you fix TRoS’ mess of new material and badly done Legends references.

Excited to see how my cuts change the experience for you, for better or for worse!

One of the reasons I’m taking a bit of a break before starting TRoS is one, to rest after putting nearly 100 hours of work into TFA and TLJ, and two, to take time to watch other Ep. 9 edits and gather my own ideas. I think TRoS has less potential for Legends fixes than TLJ did, so while I have some big picture ideas for my next edit, I still have a lot of research and planning ahead before I even open my editing software.

In TLJ I was able to flip character motivations and arcs, but in TRoS it’s going to be more about managing the saga/lore destroying themes… I have plans for Leia, Kylo and Rey, but there’s still a lot I need to process. Ep. 9 is my least watched Star Wars film at only 3 completions, so I need to get a better grip on JJ’s story before trying to transform it into my own.

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May I also get a link to both your versions of TFA and TLJ?

Thanks in advance!

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ObiOneKanoli said:

May I also get a link to both your versions of TFA and TLJ?

Thanks in advance!

You’re welcome, have fun!

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Acbagel said:

Delpheas said:

Very excited to watch this and HttF, and really intrigued to see how you fix TRoS’ mess of new material and badly done Legends references.

Excited to see how my cuts change the experience for you, for better or for worse!

One of the reasons I’m taking a bit of a break before starting TRoS is one, to rest after putting nearly 100 hours of work into TFA and TLJ, and two, to take time to watch other Ep. 9 edits and gather my own ideas. I think TRoS has less potential for Legends fixes than TLJ did, so while I have some big picture ideas for my next edit, I still have a lot of research and planning ahead before I even open my editing software.

In TLJ I was able to flip character motivations and arcs, but in TRoS it’s going to be more about managing the saga/lore destroying themes… I have plans for Leia, Kylo and Rey, but there’s still a lot I need to process. Ep. 9 is my least watched Star Wars film at only 3 completions, so I need to get a better grip on JJ’s story before trying to transform it into my own.

I suggest watching at least Resurgence and the No Palps edit for TRoS, just for two very different approaches to making changes. There are a few things in TRoS that draw on Legends plot points, like the hidden fleet, force clones, a revived Palps, even Rey’s parentage, but just pulling random pieces of lore and smooshing them together doesn’t make for good callbacks and doesn’t make up for the lack of showing Rey’s victory as a balancing of the light and dark.

I haven’t watched HotF or FotJ yet, but I havee skipped around to look at some of the big changes.

  1. Luke constantly saving Leia is excellent, it establishes him as a character who cares deeply but has succeeded in basically every way that his father failed. He was able to hold his attachments lightly enough to do what needed to be done to maintain balance, but not so lightly he forgot to care. And the way you implement these changes is really strong.

  2. When Rey arrives I would trim the lingering shots on her face and hand as she’s holding the saber to Luke. We already saw those in the vision in the last film, so I think this sequence would be helped by having her walk up and hand it to him sooner.

  3. I appreciate what you’ve done to remove the movie’s ridiculous attempt to have the entire plot fallout in like 3 days. A huge part of TLJ’s (and TRoS) problem was the pacing and it’s helped quite a bit here.

  4. I wonder if it is necessary to keep Luke’s line “I will not be the last Jedi.” Him saying it at all goes against both his and Kylo’s insistence that what came before has to be surpassed, and in TLJ was certainly used to show that he had decided he was wrong about the Jedi. Though I am intrigued by his saying while showing Kylo a shot of Jedi Leia.

  5. Finn and Rose’s plot is much helped by trimming Canto Bight and using some of their deleted material.

  6. Keeping Kylo as the big bad is a good idea and well executed. It helps with this feeling less like an irreverent rehash of ESB and RotJ and more like it’s own solid Star Wars film.

  7. When Luke is fighting Kylo and we get the shot of him in the WbtWs, I think their needs to be a shot where we see him meditating on the island and then it melts away to reveal the WbtW and he gets the blue tint of the Force Ghost. This way there’s some intro for people unfamiliar with Rebels and the WbtWs, it could be assumed he’s ascending, that he’s become one with the force without dying simply because he’s so powerful. And the blue tint provides visual continuity with his appearances in the next film. And we’ve already seen him helping out, so as you said above there is no big reveal that he can. So this final one needs some more oomph on his end.

Anyway, those are a bunch of my thoughts. I’ll be more thorough once I’ve been able to watch both films back to back.

Thanks for your hard work!

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Delpheas said:

I suggest watching at least Resurgence and the No Palps edit for TRoS, just for two very different approaches to making changes.

Thanks for the suggestions. I watched Resurgence last week and will draw a few ideas from it. I’ve also seen the anti-cringe cut, but still need to check out the No Palps cut, HAL’s, and the Movies Remastered edit when that releases
(Might do a V2 of my TRoS edit eventually as the MR cut is still a ways away)

There are a few things in TRoS that draw on Legends plot points, like the hidden fleet, force clones, a revived Palps, even Rey’s parentage, but just pulling random pieces of lore and smooshing them together doesn’t make for good callbacks and doesn’t make up for the lack of showing Rey’s victory as a balancing of the light and dark.

True, and on the surface I’m cool with a lot of the ideas. I just don’t think they were implemented with care. My worst part of the entire film is the “I am all the sith”, “well I’m all the Jedi” lines. My goodness that shows a lack of understanding of anything about balance across the entire saga. If they were both equal representatives of their sides of the force then they should have evened out at a standstill. Or even if Rey won, the force would soon correct this by producing someone to wipe out the new jedi to even the score. Either way it’s a mess and displays a clear lack of understanding of the main theme of the force.

I haven’t watched HotF or FotJ yet, but I havee skipped around to look at some of the big changes.

  1. Luke constantly saving Leia is excellent, it establishes him as a character who cares deeply but has succeeded in basically every way that his father failed. He was able to hold his attachments lightly enough to do what needed to be done to maintain balance, but not so lightly he forgot to care. And the way you implement these changes is really strong.

Nice to see you agree, thanks. Theatrical was legitimately depressing when it came to Luke and Leia’s relationship. I wanted to show that even though they were apart, Luke was always watching over his beloved sister, and she knew it. That’s the Skywalker bond.

  1. When Rey arrives I would trim the lingering shots on her face and hand as she’s holding the saber to Luke. We already saw those in the vision in the last film, so I think this sequence would be helped by having her walk up and hand it to him sooner.

I actually did trim a lot of just what you’re saying. I’ll go through again to see if it can be smoothed out any more, but I had the same idea as you and did some work in that area.

  1. I appreciate what you’ve done to remove the movie’s ridiculous attempt to have the entire plot fallout in like 3 days. A huge part of TLJ’s (and TRoS) problem was the pacing and it’s helped quite a bit here.

Ah yes, the constant insistence on how many hours of fuel remainins makes even Rey’s segments with Luke feel so unnecessarily rushed. The way I restructured Act 1 helps to push off that countdown timer until later, giving Rey actual time to learn… and sleep.

  1. I wonder if it is necessary to keep Luke’s line “I will not be the last Jedi.” Him saying it at all goes against both his and Kylo’s insistence that what came before has to be surpassed, and in TLJ was certainly used to show that he had decided he was wrong about the Jedi. Though I am intrigued by his saying while showing Kylo a shot of Jedi Leia.

So I did toy with this line a lot, almost removed it. Decided it still worked and instead of the line being about Rey, in my cut it was about Leia, and here’s why… in Episode 9, Rey still clearly needs a teacher. Rey even calls her “master” and it was really off putting to me since it didn’t appear like Leia knew anything about the Jedi in 7 & 8. Showing that she is also a Jedi, as Luke is, should be a surprise for my viewers, and leave them anticipating more in the future. Also, since my film isn’t titled The Last Jedi, there isn’t so much emphasis on that one line. Luke is simply telling Kylo that he has underestimated his mother by fixating on killing Luke, and that may come back to haunt him in the future… Luke and Leia both trained as Jedi, but after Kylo, Luke realizes there shouldn’t be any new ones, although Leia already is a Jedi.

  1. Finn and Rose’s plot is much helped by trimming Canto Bight and using some of their deleted material.

That’s the goal! I still want to maintain the basis of their friendship for a love triangle aspect (that never really goes anywhere…) while not dominating the movie with a “b plot”.

  1. Keeping Kylo as the big bad is a good idea and well executed. It helps with this feeling less like an irreverent rehash of ESB and RotJ and more like it’s own solid Star Wars film.

Awesome, happy that worked for you. I read the novels and cannot find any reason for Kylo to be light or wavering after killing Han. It is so forced in there that it feels unnatural and weakens Kylo’s presence. They hinted at it non stop for 3 movies, making the payoff feel tired. If he turns in my cuts, it won’t be so obvious or clear cut. His weakness is caring for Rey.

  1. When Luke is fighting Kylo and we get the shot of him in the WbtWs, I think their needs to be a shot where we see him meditating on the island and then it melts away to reveal the WbtW and he gets the blue tint of the Force Ghost. This way there’s some intro for people unfamiliar with Rebels and the WbtWs, it could be assumed he’s ascending, that he’s become one with the force without dying simply because he’s so powerful. And the blue tint provides visual continuity with his appearances in the next film. And we’ve already seen him helping out, so as you said above there is no big reveal that he can. So this final one needs some more oomph on his end.

Hmm, I kind of like that idea. Struggling to think of a way to implement it, ill ponder it for a V2. To counter that point, in my cut I wanted this reveal to be more ambiguous and open to interpretation… maybe I missed the mark. Luke is a force ghost in the WbtWs, meaning that he has already passed away as one in the living force. Did this happen ala Ben Kenobi when Kylo cut through him and he faded away? Or perhaps… was Luke a force ghost in the WbtWs the entire film, having ascended long ago? Was he an illusion from the start, being projected as a real person from the WbtWs? What say you on that theory?

Anyway, those are a bunch of my thoughts. I’ll be more thorough once I’ve been able to watch both films back to back.

Thanks for your hard work!

Thank you so much for the well thought out message. I really appreciate that and love reading everyone’s thoughts. Let me know after you get a chance to sit down and watch through everything, would be interested to see if any of your thoughts change!

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Just finished your TFA edit… and your TLJ one seems really incredibile, due to the work you are doing with Luke. Can I have a link? Thanks!

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Jake Skywalker said:

Just finished your TFA edit… and your TLJ one seems really incredibile, due to the work you are doing with Luke. Can I have a link? Thanks!

Sent. Thanks for watching! Let me know what you think after viewing.

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May I please have a link to your TFA and TLJ edits? I really appreciate the outside the box approach you’re taking with these cuts.

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lavoyd said:

May I please have a link to your TFA and TLJ edits? I really appreciate the outside the box approach you’re taking with these cuts.

Sent, thanks for your interest!

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So I watched this with my wife, who also watched HotF with me. We really enjoyed it, and definitely appreciated the attempts to make Luke feel more consistent with the OT and Legends. The pacing was MUCH better and the inclusion of a number of deleted scenes helped with that.

Here’s the notes we had on things that we thought were weird or needing improvement.

Like I said in my other post, I think the shots of Luke & Rey staring at each other from a distance don’t work if we’ve already seen them as a vision. It is especially weird to have the shot of her holding the lightsaber out to him from a distance and then without the shots of her walking to him have her handing it to him. So just trim out the repeated shots of the staring and have her hand it to him asap.

After Luke hands Rey back the lightsaber, cut her putting it in the pack, just go right to him storming past her. I get the impulse, but it’s not really necessary.

The cut to Luke saying “you think what, I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all?” is rough, it feels like something is missing.

During lesson 1, right before Luke smacks Rey’s hand, she says something really garbled. I get what you were trying to do with trimming the joke down, but unless you can just have her reach out and get hit without the weird cut of her talking, I think it would be better to leave the full joke.

I really like the training montage, however by having it in the middle of the lesson, and ending on the lesson, it doesn’t quite give the impression of time passing. It needs something else, maybe a recolor at the end to give the impression it’s not the same day.

Also intercutting Kylo’s mask when the ground breaks kinda took away from the impact of being with Rey & Luke. Cutting right to Kylo after Luke says his thing about sensing that raw power before is enough to establish what he means.

During the fleet escape I don’t think cutting to Kylo’s broken mask on the floor adds anything, it kinda felt like an artifact.

Kylo taking the shot on Leia is well done.

And Luke saving Leia/them doing it together makes it feel like a much stronger moment and cuts down on how much focus is on Leia’s still body shooting through space. My wife and I really liked this moment, it was really poignant.

During Rey’s training the cut from “the legacy of the Jedi is failure” to the fleet is both musically and “lyrically” upsetting. By lyrically I mean, it feels like there is more to what luke was saying and it got cut off, and the musical cut is too abrubt. I was really enjoying this training sequence and it was over too soon imo. Maybe even having Luke repeat the line “It’s time for the Jedi to end” again here could help.

Finn messing with Rose’s hair during their break in is an odd moment that doesn’t add to characterisation and isn’t really good humor. I would cut it.

I think there should a moment or two longer with Snoke after he “welcomes” Rey aboard.

In the Yoda scene, as much as I enjoy the scene, I don’t know that it adds anything to this version of the film. In the theatrical it’s part of Yoda teaching Luke, but in your edit Luke already learned the lesson of failure. It’s what he’s been teaching Rey, so for Yoda to tell it to Luke doesn’t work, especially with Luke’s facial reactions. Maybe some trims will help. Idk.

If you can, adding a shot of Holdo on one of the transports before it blows will help, because my wife was wondering what happened to her and I shouldn’t have to explain what was going on based off your notes.

I think you should include Kylo’s version of the events at the temple, it’s part of him getting Rey to doubt Luke as a teacher, part of him tempting her and is necessary I think.

I don’t know if this is a you issue or a FGR issue, but in the shots of Luke after he retracts his blade, you can see it’s Anakin’s hilt, not Luke’s.

And in the film Luke’s “I won’t be the Last Jedi” as it showed Leia was a really nice moment.

Also, having watched the whole film, my suggestion for needing some visual context for the WbtW, such as showing the island fading away from Luke still stands. My wife was completely thrown, and while I appreciate the attempt to have ambiguity, there’s a difference between ambiguity and having no in-film context for what’s going on. But it was still cool to see Leia and Rey sensing him there. Well done!

Overall really well done. Looking forward to what you put together next.

I’m getting ready to engage with the No Palps edit again, cus after watching these two edits, I can’t imagine a version of tRoS with him in it that works at all.

Edit: After some more thoughts, I have to wonder about the effectiveness of some of this ecits goals. I think it succeeded it a lot of ways, but there are some aspects about Luke that I want to address.

In this edit you are attempting to do away with the part of TLJ where Luke is there to die and has cut himself off from the Force. That he’s ready and able to help those he cares about.

This raises the issue however of why he wasn’t helping in TFA. Why didn’t he prevent Starkiller base from firing, why didn’t he save Han, (and why doesn’t he know Han is dead) why did he only start helping after Rey showed up?

If he wasn’t helping before what is the impetus for doing so now?

And if reading the Jedi texts is what brought him his better understanding of the force, why attempt to burn the books? Again, this scene only confuses your narrative more. Are the texts good? Or bad? If they’re bad and him burning them is good, then in the next film Rey having them should lead her down a bad path, but if the texts are helpful, like they are in RoS and are what helped Luke, then burning them needs to go.

And during the third lesson, when he’s explaining that according to the texts “a true Jedi only acts to maintain balance, but that’s bs cus thr galaxy needs people who are always ready to help.” you need to clarify what lesson us and Rey are supposed to take from this. Is she only supposed to act when she can maintain balance even if people die, or should she save her friends? It was unclear. I would suggest trying to have him say that the OLD jedi are the ones who only act when trying to maintain balance, but a TRUE Jedi would be what the galaxy needs and save people. Or something.

And if possible these are things that need to be addressed in the film, and if you can’t make a change work cohesively in a way that is at least somewhat coherent to the viewer, my thought is that you might have to walk back a change or try a different approach.

Good luck!

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Hey, can I get a link to both your TLJ and TFA edits? Would love to check them out!

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Delpheas said:

So I watched this with my wife, who also watched HotF with me. We really enjoyed it, and definitely appreciated the attempts to make Luke feel more consistent with the OT and Legends. The pacing was MUCH better and the inclusion of a number of deleted scenes helped with that.

Nice, glad to hear as a whole it was an improvement or at least a new enjoyable experience for you. Thanks so much for writing out this lengthy review. It will really help me refine for the final version. I’ll go through your points and see what I can fix.

Here’s the notes we had on things that we thought were weird or needing improvement.

Like I said in my other post, I think the shots of Luke & Rey staring at each other from a distance don’t work if we’ve already seen them as a vision. It is especially weird to have the shot of her holding the lightsaber out to him from a distance and then without the shots of her walking to him have her handing it to him. So just trim out the repeated shots of the staring and have her hand it to him asap.

After Luke hands Rey back the lightsaber, cut her putting it in the pack, just go right to him storming past her. I get the impulse, but it’s not really necessary.

I’ll definitely take another look at this whole interaction and try to tighten it up so the exchange feels more natural.

The cut to Luke saying “you think what, I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all?” is rough, it feels like something is missing.

You feel like it is missing something at what point in that phrase? Before, in the middle, or at the end?

During lesson 1, right before Luke smacks Rey’s hand, she says something really garbled. I get what you were trying to do with trimming the joke down, but unless you can just have her reach out and get hit without the weird cut of her talking, I think it would be better to leave the full joke.

Hmm, I’d rather cut it all if the whole joke has to be in it. They’re talking over each other in theatrical so I tried to splice it so it happens really quickly but maybe it’s too confusing without the context. I’ll see if anyone else feels the same and if so I might just remove it all. I wanted to show Luke with a little bit of ESB Yoda-like behavior, but it’s not terribly important if the cut detracts from the scene.

I really like the training montage, however by having it in the middle of the lesson, and ending on the lesson, it doesn’t quite give the impression of time passing. It needs something else, maybe a recolor at the end to give the impression it’s not the same day.

I was banking on the inclusion of some of the training segments occurring at night being the indicator that days had gone by. Did the night time shots not give the impression that time was passing during the montage?

Also intercutting Kylo’s mask when the ground breaks kinda took away from the impact of being with Rey & Luke. Cutting right to Kylo after Luke says his thing about sensing that raw power before is enough to establish what he means.

The intention was more to explain the Kylo/Rey mind link. Her venture to the dark was tied into the future connection between her and Kylo. But again, sometimes a good intention is more distracting than leaving things unchanged so I’ll re-evaluate that.

During the fleet escape I don’t think cutting to Kylo’s broken mask on the floor adds anything, it kinda felt like an artifact.

It kind of was. More of a callback to a Vader scene of telling someone to prepare his ship, and we also get to see that state of his mask which is great imagery. But it is sort of forced into that area of my cut, so I’ll try and find somewhere else I can move it rather than cut it outright.

Kylo taking the shot on Leia is well done.

Thanks. Do you think it is better for his character to ‘kill’ her rather than his hesitancy in theatrical?

And Luke saving Leia/them doing it together makes it feel like a much stronger moment and cuts down on how much focus is on Leia’s still body shooting through space. My wife and I really liked this moment, it was really poignant.

Awesome! I’m always nervous to include any of the Space Leia scene, but I also felt like this edit really worked. The power of the Skywalker bond!

During Rey’s training the cut from “the legacy of the Jedi is failure” to the fleet is both musically and “lyrically” upsetting. By lyrically I mean, it feels like there is more to what luke was saying and it got cut off, and the musical cut is too abrubt. I was really enjoying this training sequence and it was over too soon imo. Maybe even having Luke repeat the line “It’s time for the Jedi to end” again here could help.

Agreed. It is too abrupt and I really struggled with getting it even to that flawed state. It’s very difficult to find a smooth transition to the next part of the story here, but I do need to find an alternate solution. I’ll try to play with your suggestion, maybe even recut the timing of the “It’s time for the Jedi to end” line so it seems different than the other time he says it.

Finn messing with Rose’s hair during their break in is an odd moment that doesn’t add to characterisation and isn’t really good humor. I would cut it.

True, I didn’t even pay attention to that at first, but now that I see it I don’t like it. Cut!

I think there should a moment or two longer with Snoke after he “welcomes” Rey aboard.

Believe it or not, I didn’t actually cut anything there. Theatrical cuts at that same spot so there really isn’t any footage I can add in. I do agree with you though that it should linger at least another second, but there simply isn’t any footage of that.

In the Yoda scene, as much as I enjoy the scene, I don’t know that it adds anything to this version of the film. In the theatrical it’s part of Yoda teaching Luke, but in your edit Luke already learned the lesson of failure. It’s what he’s been teaching Rey, so for Yoda to tell it to Luke doesn’t work, especially with Luke’s facial reactions. Maybe some trims will help. Idk.

I was trying to show that Yoda also has reached the same conclusion that Luke has, that the Jedi must end. Yesterday, I re-watched the Clone Wars arc of Yoda’s journey, and I feel this scene is very consistent with what he learned. I’ll go through this scene and see if I can alter some of the face shots or something that will make it feel more thematically focused. I want Luke to feel comforted that his old master is supporting his decisions.

If you can, adding a shot of Holdo on one of the transports before it blows will help, because my wife was wondering what happened to her and I shouldn’t have to explain what was going on based off your notes.

Of course, the story should make sense without having to read an explanation. I don’t see any way to visually add a believable death scene for Holdo. There is an audio line that states that Holdo is onboard a transport, perhaps you missed that? I think the best I can do with her is keep that audio line and have the audience deduce that she died before making it to Crait. It’s not perfect, but I don’t have any other way to write her out of the story.

I think you should include Kylo’s version of the events at the temple, it’s part of him getting Rey to doubt Luke as a teacher, part of him tempting her and is necessary I think.

I considered it, but the problem is that then there is no resolution to his lie. That would be the last time this flashback is ever referenced and so people might start to believe that’s what actually happened, and that is something I wanted to run away from. In theatrical, Rey confronts Luke about Kylo’s “lie” and Luke confirms the truth. I have cut that whole discussion so now there is no way to resolve that Kylo’s lie is actually a lie. It would be weird of Rey to hear this side of things and then never bring it up to Luke after that, so I don’t think there’s any way for me to include this.

I don’t know if this is a you issue or a FGR issue, but in the shots of Luke after he retracts his blade, you can see it’s Anakin’s hilt, not Luke’s.

It wasn’t originally from FGR, but a professional VFX company. Unfortunately that’s all the VFX work that was included. I don’t have any way to add the hilt into the other scenes in a way that fits with their work, so sadly I think that has to remain as an annoying inconsistency.

And in the film Luke’s “I won’t be the Last Jedi” as it showed Leia was a really nice moment.

Great! I’m trying to set up some Episode 9 changes with that inclusion. I’ll start writing on that soon.

Also, having watched the whole film, my suggestion for needing some visual context for the WbtW, such as showing the island fading away from Luke still stands. My wife was completely thrown, and while I appreciate the attempt to have ambiguity, there’s a difference between ambiguity and having no in-film context for what’s going on. But it was still cool to see Leia and Rey sensing him there. Well done!

Has she seen Rebels? I don’t doubt that without proper understanding of the WbtW it would be very confusing. As a standalone movie, it should never include anything that completely confuses new viewers. However, I would also say my cut is not intended to be the best experience for people who don’t have a very deep understanding of Star Wars. The reason behind my Legends edits in the first place isn’t something that someone could clearly gleam only from only the movies, so my edits are meant to be watched with the context of KOTOR, TCW, and Rebels etc.

Overall really well done. Looking forward to what you put together next.

I’m getting ready to engage with the No Palps edit again, cus after watching these two edits, I can’t imagine a version of tRoS with him in it that works at all.

Thanks! I still need to watch the No Palps edit, and part of the reason for my delay on working on my TRoS edit is that it is a daunting task to fix, even moreso than TLJ.

Edit: After some more thoughts, I have to wonder about the effectiveness of some of this ecits goals. I think it succeeded it a lot of ways, but there are some aspects about Luke that I want to address.

In this edit you are attempting to do away with the part of TLJ where Luke is there to die and has cut himself off from the Force. That he’s ready and able to help those he cares about.

This raises the issue however of why he wasn’t helping in TFA. Why didn’t he prevent Starkiller base from firing, why didn’t he save Han, (and why doesn’t he know Han is dead) why did he only start helping after Rey showed up?

If he wasn’t helping before what is the impetus for doing so now?

It’s a valid question. I would say that all of Luke’s activity in TLJ is due to the threats against Leia. He has a special force bond with her. Luke wouldn’t necessarily be able to sense Han nearly in the same way that he can with Leia, so there’s no reason for him to know when or how Han died. He doesn’t have a force bond with him. The only acts of greatness in TLJ are Luke intervening for Leia. Not fighting a war, not getting involved in NR politics, but simply saving Leia. Also the fact that Rey physically shows up in front of him is something that motivates him to teach and become more active instead of simply studying and maintaining his balance.

And if reading the Jedi texts is what brought him his better understanding of the force, why attempt to burn the books? Again, this scene only confuses your narrative more. Are the texts good? Or bad? If they’re bad and him burning them is good, then in the next film Rey having them should lead her down a bad path, but if the texts are helpful, like they are in RoS and are what helped Luke, then burning them needs to go.

After seeing that Rey had failed his training, he felt like the lesson itself is too dangerous. He realized some of the flaws of the Jedi in the texts, but Rey’s fascination with the Jedi took her down a dark path so Luke felt that it was better if those texts were destroyed entirely, because Rey didn’t understand his teachings. The texts aren’t inherently good or bad, it’s what lessons you take from them that matters.

And during the third lesson, when he’s explaining that according to the texts “a true Jedi only acts to maintain balance, but that’s bs cus thr galaxy needs people who are always ready to help.” you need to clarify what lesson us and Rey are supposed to take from this. Is she only supposed to act when she can maintain balance even if people die, or should she save her friends? It was unclear. I would suggest trying to have him say that the OLD jedi are the ones who only act when trying to maintain balance, but a TRUE Jedi would be what the galaxy needs and save people. Or something.

I think this leads to a deeper discussion on what a True Jedi or an Old Jedi is, and what they would/should do. Luke is trying to teach Rey a simple lesson about intervention. He isn’t pointing to a definitive right or wrong, or attempting to resolve millennia of philosophical debate here. He’s merely showing Rey the different sides, her options, and the consequences of her actions.

And if possible these are things that need to be addressed in the film, and if you can’t make a change work cohesively in a way that is at least somewhat coherent to the viewer, my thought is that you might have to walk back a change or try a different approach.

TLJ is a film that was meant to spark debate. I think I would want my cut to do the same thing, but for different reasons. No, Luke’s new philosophy isn’t explained in depth, but I don’t think it has to be. Luke doesn’t even have all the answers in my cut. He is a powerful, and flawed force-user looking to do his best to make the galaxy a better place. That is to say that I don’t think there needs to be clear, definitive answers to these questions. Again, I will reference Yoda’s journey in TCW. You leave those episodes with a million questions. Does Yoda want the Jedi to end? To change? What’s his new philosophy of the force? Why doesn’t he tell others everything? None of these things are answered, but we can speculate his reasons, and that’s the fun part of it! I do wish there were ways to flesh out Luke’s stances because I find them so interesting, but I don’t think a lack of specific answers detracts so much from the film that the original goal has failed. I will show to a few more people, my own wife included, and if there is far too much confusion then I definitely would look into recutting a lot, but at least from my perspective now I don’t think there is anything that is so blatantly contradictory or confusing that it takes anything away from my goal.

Good luck!

Thanks so much for the well thought out review! I really enjoyed going through everything and I know my next release will be even better because of the time you took to help me. I appreciate it!

AntonioGK said:

Hi! can you send me the link, please?

AdroBit said:

Hey, can I get a link to both your TLJ and TFA edits? Would love to check them out!

Sent to both!

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My response to most of what you said is: Ahh. That is good! Realising that Luke is helping because of Leia and Rey makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying. Same with Luke’s philosophy, Yoda, and the meaning of the lessons. He wants Rey to learn to go beyond the Jedi. And in RoS we do actually see that the Jedi texts only lead Rey to struggle more with her darkness. I will definitely add this to my collection once it’s finished.

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Delpheas said:
The cut to Luke saying “you think what, I came to the most unfindable place in the galaxy for no reason at all?” is rough, it feels like something is missing.

You feel like it is missing something at what point in that phrase? Before, in the middle, or at the end?

Right before, it felt like a hard cut where something else had been.

I really like the training montage, however by having it in the middle of the lesson, and ending on the lesson, it doesn’t quite give the impression of time passing. It needs something else, maybe a recolor at the end to give the impression it’s not the same day.

I was banking on the inclusion of some of the training segments occurring at night being the indicator that days had gone by. Did the night time shots not give the impression that time was passing during the montage?

It did for me. My wife wasn’t able to let go of the fact that in the theatrical it was just one scene. Personally I liked it quite a lot.

Kylo taking the shot on Leia is well done.

Thanks. Do you think it is better for his character to ‘kill’ her rather than his hesitancy in theatrical?

It could go both ways. I like him taking the shot, but there’s no reaction from him when it’s discovered she survived. It did feel weird for it to go unacknowledged.

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I believe I’m going to begin work on my Episode 9 cut tomorrow so be on the lookout for a new thread. I would say the next film is still weeks-months away from having a released version, but I’m ready to begin the process.

After I release that workprint and see my whole trilogy I will go back through and release the final cuts.

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Hopefully, I’m not asking too much but I would love a link to this trilogy you edited, sounds incredible! Thanks!

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maxvirtuemc said:

Hopefully, I’m not asking too much but I would love a link to this trilogy you edited, sounds incredible! Thanks!

Not at all, sent! Have fun, would love to hear your review after you watch

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Hi! Can you send me the link please? Thanks!

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Can I get a link when you have a minute?

Sent! Hope you enjoy

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Ok so much like your TFA edit I gave this 2 viewings, the second viewing was mainly for just taking notes for feedback.

Right before I go into details I would just like to say that the first time I saw TLJ (Official Release, not Fan-Edit) my reaction was not great to say I was disappointed would have been an understatement and any hype that TFA had made was quickly gone and my returned passion for Star Wars just died (The PT killed it first but TFA had me hooked once again and it felt like I was back in 1999 for that brief moment).

So Christmas time 2019 a friend showed me what was being done here at the OT site and when I seen what the fans here were able to achieve 🤯, for me personally Hal 9000 saved the PT, Harmy did something incredible, he removed all the things I hated that the SE brought which then brings me to TLJ lol. (Sorry for going off track there).

So needless to say I wasn’t a big fan of TLJ but a few people at the OT site showed me that not everything is as bad as it seems, from FGR, Hal 9000 and Poppasketti all managed to save what I initially thought to be unsavable. With each of their edits there was always something different they did compared to next edit and I loved each one which now brings me to The Legends Edit😁.

As previously stated I have not read or seen anything Legends related (Other than your TFA edit of course) and OMFG🤯, No… No… No… This is not TLJ it can’t be, why could we not have got if not this but something similar officially released, you somehow managed to make this edit not just enjoyable but holy s@#ts it felt like I was watching something completely new.

Things I loved:
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  • Everything, you managed to keep in the things that almost everyone complained about and made them enjoyable.
    Luke training Rey 😳😮 wtf, canto blight (ok it’s still canto but less of), Phasma which I was glad you kept in as I never really had a problem with the character and actually like the idea of the character so having her and Fin face off and Fin finally getting his resolve which I think needs to be kept in the movie.

  • Luke saving Laia (I first saw this in FGR’s edit), don’t ask me why I just much prefer this and I totally hate Laia Poppins scene.

  • Luke saves the rebellion by sending their cruiser via lightspeed crashing through the First Order, this scene was awesome as we see General Hux telling his officers that the ship is empty and I wasn’t expecting to see that happen next.

  • Luke force ghost in-between world’s.

Things I didn’t Like:

  • The Milking scene😞 lol.

Things I won’t say I didn’t like but maybe worth rearranging (keep in mind that I have not seen anything to do with Star Wars Legends so what you are achieving won’t probably work out l but just my ideas anyway).

  • Luke saving Laia, I love the scene but I think bit could work a lot better if you move the scene to an earlier point, so it would work as Rey has found Luke on this Island and he is annoyed because he didn’t want to be found but realises that the resistance must be some form of serious danger for his sister to seek him out, so at the scene where we see him sneak aboard the falcon and R2 plays the help me obi hologram and Luke at this point realises how desperate the resistance is, Luke now saves Laia afterwards he see’s Rey sleeping outside his hut and then tells her “I will train you in the ways of the force”.

  • Luke saves the resistance by crashing their cruiser ship. I know I said I loved this scene and I really do just with this plus him saving Laia and then force projecting to face off against Kylo, don’t get me wrong yeah I love all of these additions and the official release should have had way more Luke but with all 3 plus him training Rey it just seems the resistance is relying on him just a bit too much. I know the resistance is meant to be on its knees and that’s why he does these things but just seems like they are relying on him a bit too much.

Sorry this is very long winded, I absaloutley loved this edit and it honestly felt like I was watching something new to what I had previously seen and this felt like what it was meant to be a Star Wars movie.

Thank you once again Acbagel for sharing this absaloutley amazing edit with me.

Now onto TROS edit😭.

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Atom-88 said:
As previously stated I have not read or seen anything Legends related (Other than your TFA edit of course) and OMFG🤯, No… No… No… This is not TLJ it can’t be, why could we not have got if not this but something similar officially released, you somehow managed to make this edit not just enjoyable but holy s@#ts it felt like I was watching something completely new.

Great, one of the main goals was definitely to give that “new” feeling to the story Rian tried to tell. It just wasn’t something I enjoyed and I wanted to create something much closer to home.

Things I loved:
(Warning as there Spoilers)

  • Everything, you managed to keep in the things that almost everyone complained about and made them enjoyable.
    Luke training Rey 😳😮 wtf, canto blight (ok it’s still canto but less of), Phasma which I was glad you kept in as I never really had a problem with the character and actually like the idea of the character so having her and Fin face off and Fin finally getting his resolve which I think needs to be kept in the movie.

  • Luke saving Laia (I first saw this in FGR’s edit), don’t ask me why I just much prefer this and I totally hate Laia Poppins scene.

  • Luke saves the rebellion by sending their cruiser via lightspeed crashing through the First Order, this scene was awesome as we see General Hux telling his officers that the ship is empty and I wasn’t expecting to see that happen next.

  • Luke force ghost in-between world’s.

Glad those things helped improve your experience!

Things I didn’t Like:

  • The Milking scene😞 lol.

Haha while I do understand that scene left a bad taste in a lot of mouths, I trimmed out the more obnoxious parts of it but thought just having Luke drink the milk shows that he is in tune with nature and therefore the living force. It doesn’t bother me at all when the bad half is cut out, especially with the new version of Luke I have created.

Things I won’t say I didn’t like but maybe worth rearranging (keep in mind that I have not seen anything to do with Star Wars Legends so what you are achieving won’t probably work out l but just my ideas anyway).

  • Luke saving Laia, I love the scene but I think bit could work a lot better if you move the scene to an earlier point, so it would work as Rey has found Luke on this Island and he is annoyed because he didn’t want to be found but realises that the resistance must be some form of serious danger for his sister to seek him out, so at the scene where we see him sneak aboard the falcon and R2 plays the help me obi hologram and Luke at this point realises how desperate the resistance is, Luke now saves Laia afterwards he see’s Rey sleeping outside his hut and then tells her “I will train you in the ways of the force”.

That’s a really cool idea actually. I’ll have to take a big picture look at the scene order again but I will definitely consider it because I think that has potential.

  • Luke saves the resistance by crashing their cruiser ship. I know I said I loved this scene and I really do just with this plus him saving Laia and then force projecting to face off against Kylo, don’t get me wrong yeah I love all of these additions and the official release should have had way more Luke but with all 3 plus him training Rey it just seems the resistance is relying on him just a bit too much. I know the resistance is meant to be on its knees and that’s why he does these things but just seems like they are relying on him a bit too much.

That’s a valid criticism. Maybe all of my edited scenes showing Luke constantly saving the day do weaken the appearance of the Resistance as a whole, but I think for the narrative of the ST as a whole that’s not a bad thing. To be frank, as a fighting force the Resistance sucks. It’s a very, very small band of soldiers who have left the New Republic to take matters into their own hands and their whole purpose is to take small rebellious actions that ultimately encourage others to take a stand as well. They aren’t meant to be a challenging military force, and them fully needing the myth of the Jedi and providence of the force works out for the old theme of destiny.

Sorry this is very long winded, I absaloutley loved this edit and it honestly felt like I was watching something new to what I had previously seen and this felt like what it was meant to be a Star Wars movie.

Thank you once again Acbagel for sharing this absaloutley amazing edit with me.

Not at all, I love reading feedback and am very happy that you enjoyed.

Now onto TROS edit😭.

😭 is right, haha. I tried my best, but with Disney refusing to release any deleted scenes/extra footage it is a very difficult task. I don’t think there’s any way to redeem it as much as I did here with TLJ but I at least tried to make it a tolerable entry in my ST remake.

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Version 3.0 changes:

I did A LOT of reorganizing scenes in the first Act, even moving things from Act 2 into here. Extensive changelist follows, I will export tonight and upload tomorrow.

  • Edited a few of the Falcon flying to Ach-To scenes to better reflect Luke’s perspective from the new end of my TFA edit.

  • With the changes to my latest TFA ending, I adjusted this version to be fully compatible. This means that upon finding Luke, Rey only briefly locks eyes and then immediately offers him the lightsaber (this also helps the pacing a few of you mentioned about how ridiculously long they used to stare at each other, now that already took place in a dream in my TFA edit where it is honestly much better suited). The pacing and musical swings work so much better here, and that lightsaber fully bears that heavy burden now. I also removed Rey putting the lightsaber back into her back just to tighten up the interaction, it was awkward that Luke stood there waiting for her to do that before storming off.

  • Removed the line from Rey “Do you hear anything I just said?” and Luke’s initial antagonism “You think what?!” She looks up to the legend of Luke and her berating him minutes after telling him his best friend Han is dead is stone cold from her and not in character. Luke also now appears more mysterious/somber instead of frustrated.

  • Big scene rearrangement here, so after Luke mourns Han, we no longer go into Rey following Luke around. Now we switch to the opening space evacuation battle. So instead of the first 15 minutes being about Luke and Rey it’s now only the first 7 which works much better for storytelling the overall picture. So we carry through the space battle until Finn wakes up and asks, “Where’s Rey?” which then cuts into her following Luke around the island learning his routine.

  • Re-added Leia’s line about 3P0 wiping the nervous expression off his face. It actually is a decent bit of characterization and humor that is in character for once. Trimmed the end off though since it went a bit overboard.

  • I didn’t entirely remove, but I did further tone down the milking scene to remove some of Rey’s overly gratuitous facial expressions…

  • After the tree hut scene I now brought in the R2-D2 scene from Act 2 with Luke boarding the Falcon. (Thanks Atom-88 for the idea, this works REALLY well) This does a number of great things for the story. First, it helps set a better day/night cycle to represent the amount of time Rey is spending on the island and how the First Order is chasing the Resistance. Second, it gives Luke motivation to save Leia in a whole new way. This is such a beautiful place for this scene to occur and I am super excited someone thought to suggest it.

  • Removed Luke’s line about “I’m NEVER coming back”, because with the new scene placement it’s all about him realizing he can’t stay away from the fight, as much as it pains him. I also removed his quip to R2 “That was a cheap move” because the tone of his voice and his facial expressions no longer fit the context of the scene. The Luke we have seen is greatly burdened by something, but he has not been presented as a failure or coward at all. Seeing the scars in his soul through his expressions in silence is more convincing.

  • At the conclusion of the R2 + Luke scene we now instead cut to the Throne Room scene with Kylo. It works really well because R2 had just played the recording and you just know Luke is thinking of her, Han, and Kylo here. Now BOOM, Kylo is instantly on screen for the first time.

  • Overlaid Palpatine’s voiceline saying “Vader” underneath when Snoke says it.I will do this a few times throughout the film where you almost feel as though there are two voices speaking some of his lines, but it’s vague enough to not be a direct giveaway.

  • The throne room scene plays out through the end of space battle Part 2, and now it works so much better to see Luke reach out to save Leia at night time because we just saw him with R2 at night. I also added another voiceline of Leia saying “Luke” during the tension with Kylo and you can really feel the connection the three of them share. Especially when Luke responds with “Leia” after the missiles are launched. It’s really poetic, and you almost feel like Kylo pulls the trigger knowing it’s not going to work anyways.

  • Removed the brief scene of Kylo’s destroyed mask in the elevator after he departs for his ship. I do love the visual but it hinders the pacing and is an artifact that gets in the way of my new scene orders.

  • With this new scene placement, it’s so sequential how now immediately after saving Leia, Luke walks straight to wake up Rey to tell her he will teach her the lessons. And this scene is still at night, so everything happens in a much more logical way. Moving that R2 scene up really changes the entire first Act.

  • We immediately cut from Luke waking Rey to the next morning where she begins her training. These scenes work so much better when referring to Kylo because Luke just witnessed him attempt to murder Leia mere hours ago instead of in the future. It’s a great contrast for the viewer, as we see how Luke’s powers just saved the day, but he STILL wants the Jedi to end which would point to there being a much bigger meaning than he is just being a coward. He actually has some untold reason for this, and it’s not fear. I hope you love how this Act flows as much as I do now!

  • Removed the remainder of the grass smacking hand gag. Luke is serious here, and he is presented as a caring mentor with no antagonism. The tone of this scene is so different without it!

  • Removed the clips of Kylo’s mask from Rey’s training, I used to have it as a flashing transition to the Throne Room scene, but the new Act order drastically prevents that.

  • Another new scene order, we now jump straight from Luke talking about Rey going to the dark, only “seen this power… in Ben Solo”, and then straight cut into the scene of Kylo getting his stitches removed where Rey has her first connection with him. It makes so much sense that right after Rey touched the dark that their connection would bridge (especially what we know from Episode 9 that Palpatine is actually the one bringing them together).

  • Fixed a few bad transitions to be smoother in the visuals and audio, removed a couple dead frames, and also changed a few soundtracks for the same purpose.

  • Cut BB-8’s dance in the deleted scene when he tries to cheer up Finn. I didn’t even notice it before, but it drags the scene on so long and it’s just weird… Imagine R2 dancing for Han.

  • When Luke tells Rey about Kylo’s betrayal, I have further cut lines that make Luke appear resentful rather than wise. I cut “that MiGhTy Skywalker blood” because his tone is mocking and cut “In my hubris”. Now Luke appears to have genuinely tried to train Kylo without fear, and the blame lies more squarely on Kylo. It’s the same dynamic of Obi-wan and Anakin where sometimes the training is good, but the apprentice still falls. But the master always bears the weight that they could have done something more.

  • Since the Luke + R2 scene is moved out of Act 2, we now go right from Finn + Rose escaping the Canto Bight cell straight into another force connection with Rey and Kylo. Again, this works so well because the last we saw of Luke and Rey was them arguing in the deleted scene of the caretaker village. Now each time Rey has lashed out she is making some connection with Kylo instead of it being totally random like theatrical.The next we see Luke is him busting down the hut after sensing Kylo’s presence. The Rey/Luke relationship now has the tension it deserves to reach the breaking point.

  • Added a couple sound effects from Anakin’s lightsaber for when Rey wields it.

  • Trimmed a bit off the Finn brushing Rose’s hair down gag in the deleted scene.

  • Overlaid a line from Palpatine underneath Snoke’s command to kill Rey in the Throne Room battle. “Fulfill your destiny”. It actually sounds really cool and the very subtle hints throughout my edits point to his spirit still being present.

  • Cut the initial overly shocked face that Snoke makes when Kylo kills him. Now we only hear a lightsaber ignite, see Rey fall down, for her to then look back at Snoke to see what just happened. It preserves the surprise for another few seconds and cuts that weird facial expression.

  • Cut Poe’s line “… all of ‘em!” during the battle of Crait. It’s good enough when he just says “She drew them off!” His delivery is weird after that and it doesn’t make sense that every single TIE fighter would go after the Falcon.

  • When Luke meets Leia in person, I cut part of her phrase “at the end” because with how much Luke has been involved in saving her in this edit and them sensing one another, it makes it more touching for her to simply say “I’m just glad you’re here”. The “at the end” implies that Luke has been more absent than I portrayed him so it’s gone now.

  • I also cut the icebreaker about Leia’s hairstyle. It doesn’t really work in my version of Luke because there is no awkward tension to break. They are endeared to one another, truly loving siblings as we have always known them to be. This scene is now purely somber, as they both know what must be done.

  • Did you happen to tear up at the end of the Mandalorian Season 2…? Well boy do I have a surprise for you in the soundtrack department. The Luke + Leia scene will tug your heartstrings like never before 😉

  • Continued the above soundtrack as Kylo lands to meet Luke.

  • As Kylo stabs the illusion of Luke, I replaced part of the force ghost scenes with ones of his body fading away from Ach-To. Force Projection is a cool ability and his voluntary death here also pays homage to Ben Kenobi’s. We still immediately see Luke take the form of a force ghost though, indicating his Grand Master status.

  • Added lines of Palpatine talking in Kylo’s head as Rey escapes in their final force connection. We see Palpatine speak in Kylo’s head much more drastically in my TRoS cut so I want to foreshadow that even more here.

  • I didn’t like how uplifting things end when it’s just the Falcon jumping off into hyperspace again just like my TFA ending. It doesn’t have any weight, and this film should have weight like ESB. The broom boy scene also does not give the vibe I am looking for, so I have added a scene of Palpatine’s “The Dead Speak” speech as more of a cliffhanger ending with alternate credit music [lantern51]. This is atypical of a Star Wars film, but I think it’s worth trying out in this workprint. I gave the opening crawl an atypical intro (fading the stars into a hyperspace jump) so I feel like this alt-ending could also work. TLJ is supposed to be the odd egg of the bunch in the saga anyways with the red lettering and such so maybe this works. Let me know what ending you think works better.

Preview of Luke’s new theme: https://vimeo.com/644952805

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