The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 617

Yeah, I still feel like it deserves to exist and be made available. Even though I feel Rey Palpatine is the more seamless and presentable option. Not substantively, because they 100% could’ve tweaked things before releasing and have this work out fine, but in terms of conniving a fan edit using what we have to work with.

What would make the right ‘trilogy’ for the Rey Nobody version?

Both Nev’s TFA Starlight and Poppa’s TLJ Rekindled leant into the Palpatine angle, adding hints and forward references, but that makes them less suitable to precede a TROS Nobody finale.

Probably TFA Legendary, but I’m less familiar with TLJ edits.

It’s ironic; I came up with ‘Sith eyes Rey’ before TROS was even in production as a way to indicate that one particular moment should be read as darker than usual, and when TROS released people insisted I add the two small Palpatine sound references from Hal’s project into mine out of obligation more than anything else. I was trying to allow the project to play nice with any possible future, but personally I oppose Rey Palpatine with every fiber of my being.

But now the edit has apparently become the very thing I swore to destroy.

Yeah, none of those elements post a problem with Rey Nobody.

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Well, ‘Rey Nobody’ has finished the editing stage! I took Burbin’s feedback and applied it to Spence’s version of the bedroom duel and hangar scenes.

There’s still work to do, including retiming all the subtitle tracks to fit and reapplying all the LUTs. But, it’s a-comin’.

Also, a very minor adjustment I made which will also be present in any future issue of either version of Ascendant. TFA and TROS usually give the blue Skywalker saber an ignition sound that blends the classic one and the Sith one, whereas TLJ gives it a mostly new one based off the classic one.

So, if TFA Restructured ever gets reissued, it’ll feature a version of the ignition sound a bit closer to the classic. I will be reissuing TLJ to fix a dumb visual mistake (flopped wrong shots when DJ breaks out of jail), so I went ahead and replaced one ignition sound I had missed prior. Then, in TROS it will now feature the sound originally given to it for TLJ. The logic is that it sounds like its old self until being broken, then it takes on a different sound. (Also, Leia’s saber will be consistent throughout. Someone on YouTube pointed out that in the training flashback, her saber seemed to have a combination of Luke’s and Ahsoka’s ignition sounds. So, I approximated it and applied it to the two other times her saber is ignited, instead of using the classic sound again.)

Hello sir. Your edit sounds epic. Please can I have a link so I can watch it too? Thanks.

Chris

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It’s not gonna be as seamless as the main version but it really comes close to working. Closer than I’d have guessed. There’s still some weird things, like how Ochi is just some random dumbass now.

Is there no way to keep Ochii being a Jedi hunter, who was after the Nobody’s because of Rey and her force sensitivity?

That’s a theme that works even if she’s not a Palpatine. Her parents are just Ms & Mr Nobody, but Ochii - the last Inquisitor- went after them because Rey was an awakening in the force. It wouldn’t need explanation for why he was after her and not some other new force sensitive, imo, her being the protagonist works well enough imo… :p

You’d think so, but it doesn’t end up working in practice to keep Rey’s parents as nobodies AND have Ochi seeking her. Because her parents then become noble in shielding her, which begs the question as to why.

Not at all!

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