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Anakin Starkiller

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#1447136
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<strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> — Official Review and Opinions Thread
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I really liked that J.J. brought back Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, and I thought it was an absolutely necessary thing to do.

By bringing him back, it ties all nine Skywalker saga movies together as one cohesive, overarching story and makes The Rise of Skywalker feel like an actual series finale to the saga, it feels like there really is one overarching villain for the saga rather than just killing him off for good in Return of the Jedi and then having Kylo Ren be the villain in the last trilogy.

He is so important to the saga, and had he not been included as the final villain of the trilogy, and, by extension, the saga, then it would’ve felt like something was missing. We have more of an established connection with him over the first six films than with Kylo Ren or Snoke or Plagueis or the Yuuzhan Vong from Legends or Maul.

For once I agree with you. No one else agrees with me on this.

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#1447134
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What do you think of the <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong>? - a general discussion thread
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I’m a little baffled we’re only now starting a thread like this.

Overall, the trilogy was an uninspired mess with moments of greatness. Everything is needlessly derivative in both story and aesthetics. For settings we get a bunch of boring desert and forest planets. Only TRoS actually tried to tell an original story, but even then said story is utter crap. Only Rey, Luke, and Kylo get lightsabers because that’s what the OT did and god forbid we deviate from it. It’s blatantly obvious to me the Knights of Ren should’ve all had lightsabers.

Finn actually an excellent character in TFA, he just unfortunately never evolves out of being a Rey simp. I certainly wouldn’t call the character racist like fmalover. Rey is not OP in the slightest. She has the power level I’d expect her to, and I don’t get why everyone else is so up in arms about it. Luke doesn’t feel out of character at all. He feels like a believable progression of his RotJ self. Poe is…honestly not bad for someone who was supposed to die in the first 20 minutes.

Now for the good. The first 40 minutes of TFA are flat-out perfect. The rest needs a lotta work, but that opening is gold. I think bringing Palpatine back was not just good but necessary. He’s the thing that ties the whole Saga together. Was he handled well? Not particularly, but it’s better than nothing. And no, I don’t care about the Prophecy, not to mention it’s literally explained in the movie that balance was restored in RotJ and that it just wasn’t permanent balance. The two rhyming Han and Ben scenes are perfect. Rey and Kylo’s dynamic is great, and just Kylo as a whole. TRoS’s breakneck pacing feels 100% appropriate imo for a finale. I love Fuhrer Hux’s speech.

Oh and the tone across all three movies feels like a parody. No, not just TLJ, TFA did it too.

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#1446391
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Pokémon: The Last Jedi (pre-production)
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That might be very difficult to rotoscope, but, if everyone is okay with me doing an exceptionally bad job of it, it’s doable! (Not that I anticipate much of my visual additions to be good, but I figure that’s not really the point of this whole endeavour.)

I figured you’d do the whole thing with G5 style animated sprites overlaid on the actual film.

Very important question time: who is Holdo’s partner pokémon?

Some kind of fairy type. Maybe Snubull.

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#1446074
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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CaptainFaraday said:

I really want to end my TLJ edit by irising out on the group shot of the Resistance inside the Falcon, but the shot isn’t long enough to fit the music. It’s only a few seconds too short - I’ve seen people here extend shots using interpolation software, but I don’t have the technical know-how to do it myself; is there anyone who could give it a crack?

Just change the music. Or better yet, take DZ-330’s suggestion.