Anakin Starkiller

Currently watching Code Lyoko (rewatch) in the morning and Batman: The Animated Series (first time) at night. They work well in those time slots.

Given how old you folks here tend to be, you probably aren’t familiar with Code Lyoko, but do yourself a favor and give it a shot. It’s about a group of schoolkids defending the Earth from an evil computer virus by entering a virtual world while trying to bring their virtual friend into the real world. The first season episodes are all self-contained (save for the finale) but later seasons have story progression. Oh and the real world is 2D animation while the digital world is 3D.

Batman is great too, but the Internet has already waxed endlessly about it’s greatness, so I don’t feel the need to add to it. I’d be hard-pressed not to mention it’s brilliant stylized art deco design, though.

Yeah, I wasn’t aware of his films being held in high regard (unless you’re counting Monty Python).

Add pointless narration by Dante Basco.

Wouldn’t it be simpler to just change every mention of Bail to Ben? I guess it would be a little weird for Obi-Wan to then take the name, but I could easily see it being a common name.

“On second thought, we surrender.” followed by Ben killing them anyway would be hilarious, although it obviously wouldn’t work morally, and I wouldn’t want to lose the entire fight for that line.

fmalover said:

I tried very hard not to fall asleep watching Punch Drunk Love, and once the credits started rolling I felt like I wasted two hours of my life.

To put it in perspective, one of the other movies was Paterson. Literally nothing happens. Even worse was The Rider from an earlier semester. It’s genuinely the single worst movie I have ever seen. No entertainment value whatsoever.

Considering Punch Drunk Love was the only decent movie I saw in my last film studies class, I’m willing to give him a pass for now, although I’m not exactly gonna praise him.

What is the 9 part Star Wars Saga as a whole about? The tragedy of Darth Sidious the wise? The rise, fall, redemption, and legacy of Anakin Skywalker? The rise and fall of fascism?

I need to watch those films…

Now, if we could get back on the topic of thread…

Right, so as was saying, that’s why chinchillas are actually a communist conspiracy.

A few sparks perhaps. Personally, I wouldn’t put any at all, as I think it works best as is revealed in TRoS.

Panakin said:

The Crap Jedi is the Batman v Superman of Star Wars.

And not TRoS, which is literally co-written by the guy who co-wrote Batman v Superman?

And yeah, I agree with others’ sentiment. Your negativity and namecalling has place here.

I guess you could just drop that plot thread entirely after TFA… But some people would still say she’s a Mary Sue and her Force prowess has to come from somewhere.

Hayden Christensen was in Goosebumps once. Does that count?

Anyway, what if Rey’s parents were left open to interpretation? Or would not answering the question at all annoy people even more?

idir_hh said:

After watching TFA for the first time I got the impression that Luke went specifically to the first Jedi temple to learn something, perhaps even searching for the source of Snoke’s power.

Same.

The Emperor is the head of the Empire, which was the main threat of the original trilogy. Another separate threat would be introducing a new and separate antagonist. Lucas never did this. Snoke and the First Order was the primary antagonist, setting up Kylo to supplant him. Having an extra force to fight against that The First Order also has to fight against would have convoluted everything, be that threat another force or Knights of Ren.

Honestly, if in Episode IX something like the Yuuzhan Vong had shown up outta nowhere and the finale was about the First Order and Resistance teaming up for the greater good, I’d have been so down for that.

When Rey visits the Lars Homestead at the end of RoS, the area has been gentrified, and it’s next door to a boarded up McDonald’s.

1. Duel of the Fates prologue (“Promise me you will train the boy.”).

2. Anakin meets Padme for the first time as a padawan.

3. Palpatine seduces Anakin to the Dark Side.

4. Mustafar confrontation.

5. Match fade Binary Sunset.

6. Luke finds Leia’s message, meets the crew, rescues her.

7. The Empire follows them back to Hoth and a battle ensues.

8. Luke goes to Dagobah to train while the Falcon loses the Empire in an asteroid field. Ben tells Luke Vader is his father.

9. The Battle of Endor. No celebration beyond the modest Ewok party and no ghosts (they provide way too much finality).

10. Luke nearly kills Ben (the rise of Kylo Ren). Luke exiles himself. Kylo kills Han.

11. Leia hears the news and sends Poe to Jakku in response.

12. Jakku misadventures.

13. Stop on D’Qar before Ach-To and First Order attack.

14. Godspeed, Rebels.

15. Kylo meets Palps.

16. Kylo goes to Kef Bir (why?) and encounters his father’s memory, convincing him to return to the light.

17. Fight to the finish on Exegol!

Admittedly, this is probably still, like, 6 hours, but it’s a start.

Honestly, I don’t see anything wrong with the idea that both parties spend about two weeks doing their shtick.

Cinefy said:

I just said “this is the Radiant F VII”, which is the first class of ship ever seen in the Skywalker Saga chronologically

Nice! If only someone actually recognized that name… Didn’t it get destroyed, though? Probably shoulda had a different number.

Oh I totally agree. I think a montage would be unnecessary and indulgent.

jonh said:

Hal 9000 said:

jonh, how about you call in as “the Phantom four” or “Spectre four” or some synonym for ghost?

Or “Jedi Haircut” lol

“this is the Phantom four, standing by” i like it!!!
I send it to you today 😃

Canonically, the crew use Specter as a callsign, with each member being Specter 1-6. The Phantom is the name of the small ship that attaches to the back of the Ghost.

After 3PO says “One last look… at my friends!” it would be cool to have a short montage of Luke, Han and Leia from the Original Trilogy. This would make is appear 3PO is accessing his memory banks of Luke, Han and Leia instead.

No, that’s a horrible idea. The ST is already too obsessed with OT as it is. I’d allow the montage if it includes the Prequels and a bit of the Sequels, tying it all together, but just the Originals would be insulting. I get that has Prequel memories haven’t been restored at this point, but that’s not important.

Chase Adams said:

I decided I wanted to put my mental C-3PO inventory to some more good use, so I spent a few minutes screwing around with the scene where 3PO gets his memory back.

THIS IS ROUGH, I haven’t done anything with pruning the audio yet, this is just raw lines used:

https://streamable.com/o5rynb

I really didn’t like the joke about R2 “putting something in his head” as well as the smash cut mid-sentence, so I changed it.

I hope Snooker gets a chance to see my “mistress Rey” line replacement since she was the one who gave me the idea!

I agree with what Octorox said; the Prequel reference is nice but the original smash cut line was much better.

Did RoS really try to please everyone, though? It feels more like it tried to please those who hated TLJ.

I actually don’t see the connection there.

I just don’t see what good could come from him being in exile without disillusionment. What, was he just sitting there waiting for someone to come get him? And as soon as they did he’d go “Okay, well since you found me, I’ve totally changed my mind and decide to take on the whole First Order with a laser sword”?

Restore the original dialog.