“Dark Leia,” much like “Dark Luke,” is an incredibly stupid idea. We don’t want to see “evil” versions of the classic heroes.
It’s not as stupid as the one time I saw a prequel rewrite that had Luke and Leia being the product of Vader raping the Padme equivalent.
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Sorry, but that’s almost certainly not a good idea, even for a rewrite. A vengeful Leia becoming the new emperor would be even more of a depressing ending than what we got, and it just doesn’t make sense for the character. She got her home planet blown up by the Empire, and now she wants to emulate them?
Victims often become monsters. Vader could see the potential in her. She choked Jabba. Stood over Lando as Chewie choked him. There is much of Vader in her. The ST is missing a story that needs telling. Anakin was never the fallen hero because we never got to like him. Leia could have given that idea real gravitas. Carrie would have loved being a villain.
I still think we missed a grand opportunity in the sequel trilogy. Consider the chaos of the last years of the Republic. Putting things back together after ROTJ would have been deeply frustrating for Leia. She has the Skywalker blood. She lost her home. The war as left a squabbling mass of political intrigue. She could have invented the First Order. To give the Republic something to unite against but eventually the allure of the powers she was using could have corrupted her. Imagine the reveal that it wasn’t Palpatine pulling the strings of Snoke but our beloved princess. Wouldn’t that explain why Luke would lose faith? Especially if she had warped her own son into becoming the new Vader. Rey could just be the Force readdressing the imbalance as it did with Anakin. How the hell someone would edit the material to make this work I don’t know. Perhaps replacing the Smoke model with a cowled figure that could add plot changing exposition. Just imagine Kylo’s face when Snoke says" I am your mother"😁
This has probably already been suggested but as Palpatine was born on Naboo it might work better if the Mustaphar sequence was relocated there. All those burned trees would tell a story of the garden paradise of episode 1 turned to ash. Maybe some added images of the palace in ruins.
Ady attempted this for ESBR, if I recall, it was too much work and didn’t look quite right. You can see it in the early trailers he made.
The glow on Luke’s face during the ESB:R trailer was beautifully done.
I know these edits are their own thing but adding Imperial ships escaping in the background before the Death Star explodes wouldn’t hurt. They just seem to vanish in the theatrical cut and if people are into the sequels it would set those up too.
When Luke goes to collect the Green Kyber crystal for his new lightsaber a rebel general could ask him confirm his report that the bulk of the wreckage has disappeared.
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Palestine turns the crystal sacred to the Jedi into super weapon. Luke restores it.
Damn Disney always having to push a political agenda! 😉
Damn you auto correct 😁
I’ve probably mentioned this before but I always wanted the Jedi of the Old Republic era to only have blue lightsabers. That way Luke’s ROTJ one has more significance. A potential opening scene cold be Luke in his X-wing. Flying near Yavin trying to salvage a Kyber crystal from the debris cloud of the Death Star. As he reaches out with the Force. Vader telepathically tries to contact him but he shrugs it off. A crystal fragment is found. Luke pulls it to the ship and Artoo captures it with his claw arm. It is green because of its prior use in the super laser. Palestine turns the crystal sacred to the Jedi into super weapon. Luke restores it.
It’s good to see Bingowings posting again.
Thank you. It’s nice to know you are still here. Ive forgotten how to do text mark up it’s been so long.
I remember randomly putting Immigrant Song in the middle of my tragic 7-1 3.5hr Vader edit. It comes out of nowhere. Not sure why I did it.
I can hear it
I did this one yesterday https://twitter.com/umbongowings/status/1252016255504125953?s=09
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I did this one yesterday https://twitter.com/umbongowings/status/1252016255504125953?s=09
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I did this one yesterday https://twitter.com/umbongowings/status/1252016255504125953?s=09
But Three was wearing Two’s tux when he fell out. Also, she didn’t show up in Brain of Morbius.
But the wrong shoes and trousers. So presumably whatever incarnation preceded Pertwee went back to wearing a tux.
Thought I’d drop by with a few thoughts
I don’t mind the Morbius Doctors inclusion or the lore alterations, but I also understand how deeply upsetting it is for many fans who have grown up with the show facing a change on this scale. It’s the most sizemic we’ve had since the publication of Lungbarrow. Some believe this will go away like the half-human thing did, but I don’t personally feel like there’s a point to decanonising something of this size. Better to embrace a new idea than hold on so tightly to lore that at one point, was also pulled out of nowhere to keep the show interesting.
Jodie unfortunately hasn’t been ‘owning it’ as The Doctor all season and I fail to see how anyone is getting the impression she is putting in an effort. She is a woefully unprepared actress and Jo Martin’s Ruth Doctor acted the socks off of her in comparison. The Doctor had very little authority in this series and felt too much like a victim of circumstances. Ruth’s Doctor was in far more control of a room and a situation that she was.
But isn’t that the point. 13 has lost Gallifrey again. Had the corpses of its dead turned into Cybermen by the ‘friend’ she spent her previous life trying to redeem. Yes she has had the wind knocked out of her sails. Ruth Doc hasn’t had that yet. I still think she is the true third Doctor.
“Oh Là Là? Oh Là Là?!”
Fit a Death Star laser on the bottom of every Star Destroyer in the Battle of Endor. If that doesn’t work have the Emperor zap space craft out of the sky with Force lighting.
Just thoughts really but what if the “dead talking” is in the very first episode. When Hux and the first order generals are talking to the Supreme leader they see Palpatine. But it’s a ruse to generate a myth that the Emperor survived. When alone Renn sees Snoke. The final show down would be Renn delivering Rey to Smoke and Renn killing him. The Palpatine in the last film is literally a puppet to make convincing holocasts with.
Dreamt last night my family were staying at some sort of resort or hotel. And my dad died again. Often in my dreams my dad didn’t die but had a row with my mum and moved out and I visit him in his flat where he isn’t coping too well. I guess it’s anxiety, entering my 50th year. If I make it through to my dad’s birthday I will have outlived him. In the dream everyone was roughly the same age when he died last time but more stoic. I had to explain death to some random little girl and I didn’t have a photo of him.
One obvious change across the whole nine part saga would be to not name the children in part 3 so Rey could be The Other kept on ice and placed on Jakku by the Church of the Force to make another Anakin. So their Palpatine clone could turn either Ben Solo or Rey Skywalker to the dark and fight the other. Surely a church of the Force would need the dark and the light. In a world with a Jedi Master like Luke they would need a sudo Palpatine. Snoke can just be edited away. That way Leia is never Luke’s sister.
I mean, theoretically there’s 3 years we didn’t see of them trading saves.
That’s just Sir Alec Speak. Han was frozen in Carbonite for most of that time. Did he fall on Vader’s toe or something? 😁
I don’t know if it could be done but. In Return of the Jedi Han says to Luke “I owe you one” it would have worked better if he said “You still owe me one” as he saved Luke in the original Death Star attack and on the frozen wastes of Both. It would show that despite his gratitude for being saved he has retained his essential 'Han’ness, something sorely missed in this film.
Here’s an idea I had recently: We actually see Palpatine transfer Padme’s life energy into Vader, and this is what kills Padme.
This is an idea I floated a few years back. I saw ROTS again a week or so ago and it makes more sense now than it did them. How else does Sid Idios know she is dead? Similarly I thought that Anakin subdued by Vader is keeping Padme from passing onto the next life so she can appear as a ghost to Leia in the mode of Curse of the Cat People.