Anakin Starkiller

This just made my day.

I’d like to cut Rey and Poe’s strangely romantic first meeting in TLJ. It’s the sole remnant of Colin Trevorrow’s Episode IX and feels thoroughly out of place in the Reylo-focused TLJ and TRoS. It’s just awkward, really. It’s another instance of setting something we get no payoff for.

That’s besides the point.

Well at least doesn’t need to return from the dead.

Jedha is just another boring desert planet, though, and it doesn’t appear in the saga itself. Geonosis appears in the saga, and has a very distinct appearance.

People who thought the Sequels were gonna tie into the Spinoffs are too use to the MCU. Not everything needs to be connected.

snooker said:

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Fixed.

Here’s an idea: Pasaana is Geonosis. It would tie the saga together more.

And for the love of the Force, give some of the aliens different skin tones then the same tone of fleshy orange they all seem to have some variant of. Give me purples, yellows, and greens!

Exactly. All mentors are contractually obliged to perform a noble sacrifice. And they tend to return in some form. Gandalf (ressurrected because God said so), Dumbledore (meets Harry in purgatory), Obi-Wan (Force ghost), etc… Actually, this makes me realize there is no such figure in Avatar, one of my go-to examples of a fantasy epic like the other three, unless you count that one monk Aang liked who died in the Air Nomad genocide.

No, I think that gives it a reasonable amount of poetry, and with both other trilogies too.

What if in TLJ, we intercut between Rey and Kylo for a training montage? Luke teaches Rey Jedi stuff while Snoke tasks Kylo with retrieving a Sith artifact on Mustafar to prove himself. Hell, maybe remove the artifact and have this taking place in Snoke’s garden (hence the trees), with Snoke watching. That way it would look more like training.

He’s not really a joke. He’s just kinda there. He doesn’t do anything. How’d he even get on the poster? He’s in, like, two shots in the whole film.

How 'bout adding the Emperor to ANH as well?

The biggest difference between the PT and the ST is how much is borrowed from the OT. To make them feel consistent, we would have to make it consistent how much they borrow from the OT. That means make the PT closer to the OT while distancing the ST from it. Any thoughts on how to do that?

How could we reduce all this excessive “poetry” (read: plagiarism)? How do we make the plots feel different enough?

Hal 9000 said:

I wonder what NeverAr’s bleached sand aesthetic would look like applied to Pasaana.

Well here you go.

I tried messing with some of the planet designs to make them more unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXc4VQkCVVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKhNYo9uQu8

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Asajj Ventress, was another comics character he used quite heavily in the animated series.

It’s worth considering she was originally created for AotC before they hired Christopher Lee as the villain and scrapped her.

I’m looking for anyone interested in writing ~20 page scripts set around a college campus. The atmosphere should be creepy and unsettling, and it needs to be producible with no budget. Besides that, anything goes. This is for a series I’m making called Tarot Grove. I don’t have much in the way of vision for this, so run wild!

I know, and as I said it played really loose with its connection to EU material so it doesn’t really matter, but if we were to nitpick, then CW season 7 is technically part of both continuities. CW is such an oddity canon-wise. It is, as you say G-canon, so it trumped all other content, yet it was also made to fit within the time-jump in Tartakovsky’s CW cartoon, hence why season 1 starts with Anakin being a Jedi and why it never intended to show the attack on Coruscant. However, despite being the last part of Legends, it was canonized as the first non-movie content in the new EU and has been treated as the starting point for new animated series. The reason I find this funny is that it’s a canon series that was made to fit within a non-canon series, yet they continued several unresolved arcs in a canon sequel series, which means that the Legends version (regardless of whether season 7 counts) will most likely always be unfinished.

The weirdest part is that without Tartokovsky’s CW, Grievous and Ventress just sorta show up outta nowhere.

What if we ended TFA on the shot of the Resistance watching Rey leave? It allows for the implication of a time jump, confirmed in a modified crawl for TLJ, during which Rey and Chewie search Ach-To for Luke’s island. Ending on this hsot could also allow for better poetry with TPM and ANH, assumign you can emphasize it as celebratory.

CW always fell between the two, not quite fully fitting with either.

I think the Force healing works thematically, it’s just on a lore/continuity level that it fails. For that reason, I think it could work if we make it so that only dyads can heal each other. Pretty much all you need to do is cut Rey healing the snake and have Palpatine or somebody clarify that this is a property of Force dyads.

And I absolutely agree with StarkillerAG on Rey’s parents. Rey Palpatine doesn’t work, we all agree on that, but Rey’s parents ditching her to protect her does. The thing is, Rey’s parents being drunkards works far better.

I suggest we have someone mention that First Order troops have been sent to Exegol. That way, we’d solve the “where did this army come from?” conundrum. As for where the Star Destroyers came from, we could have them say they were stashed there during the imperial days, explaining their imperial design.

Gothamknight said:

hk47awesome said:
I do think they missed an opportunity at showcasing a new dynamic. . . . I would have much preferred the new dynamic of the New Republic battling a small faction known as the First Order that still believes in the ideals of the Empire. . . . Technically, in canon, it’s been thirty some odd years but TFA is literally the first film after ROTJ, in the main saga, and so the fact that we go from “we did it!” to “welp, it was nice while it lasted” just like that is disappointing.

And:

LordPlagueis said:
The lack of political context irked me at first. Eventually, I realized the relationship between the Republic and the Resistance is at least roughly analogous to the relationship between the French Resistance and Free France in World War II.

You guys are circling the central point of the framing that I wish had been done with these sequels: an analogy with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis between WW1 and WW2.

• The Allies punish Germany too harshly / the New Republic bullies the Imperial remnant
• German resentment soars, and a young, bitter corporal named Adolf blames Jews and communists / Imperial resentment soars, and a young “Hitler” blames uncontrolled, unaccountable Force-users for supposed incompetence and the failure of their “sorcerer’s ways” to carry the Empire to victory
• Hitler rises to power by tapping German resentment and desperation; outlines a plan for a fascist, antisemitic state and brand new war machine / The Imperial “Hitler” outlines a plan to destroy Force-users, rebuild the Imperial war machine, and get vengeance on the New Republic
• The Allies didn’t take Hitler seriously until it was too late to prevent a new war / The New Republic doesn’t initially take the Imperial resurgence seriously

I mean, good grief and bantha poodu, the parallels that could be drawn throughout a sequel trilogy!!!

I’m also considering a new TFA-TLJ amalgamated crawl that actually sketches these parallels, with the opening scene on Jakku being all about an Imperial hunt for Force-users.

Getting a serious Legend of Korra vibe here. It’s an interesting idea. However, it’s not really compatible with having Force users running the place.

Just put Lone Prayer over every single fight.

I think adding a green glow coming from beneath the surface of Exegol through cracks would give it a nice memorable aesthetic, while also letting us see what’s going a lot more clearly. It’d just take basic color correction and more thorough edits to long shots.