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Don’t know if this has been suggested yet, but how about having Palpatine’s Fortnite broadcast either replace or preface Starkiller Base firing in Force Awakens? Find or create additional footage for a montage of people hearing it across the galaxy, throw in the Resistance guy’s TROS line speculating as to how he’s alive.

Introduce that right away in the trilogy, then (as has already been suggested) move Kylo tracking Palps down to somewhere in Last Jedi, along with whatever other lines can be altered or added to integrate his survival into the trilogy.

A couple of minor fixes:

• It’s weird that Leia dies, but her body waits to disappear until Ben’s body does. Moving that shot to right after her death would be pretty simple.

• They make a point of saying how nobody answered their distress call from Crait, but then the explanation for how they get the MASSIVE fleet at the end basically boils down to “Lando made a few calls.” Cut the earlier line, and then imply that the closing fleet is simply the payoff for all the recruitment the Resistance has been doing over the past several months (or however long it’s been since TLJ).

Oh, good to know, thanks!

Correction: Temura saying “as you wish” is from the Bounty Hunter video game, not Battlefront. It definitely sounds better than the 2004 DVD version, but I’m not sure how easy it would be to isolate from the rest of the audio.

https://youtu.be/MPGmcYhHJE4?t=537

Temuera also has quite a few Fett lines in the Battlefront games, including “As you wish” and “worth a fortune to me,” which sound a bit less phoned-in than the lines he recorded for the 2004 DVD.

Obi-Wan’s external hyperdrive ring was introduced in the prequels to give at least one example of technological progression between the eras. By the time of the OT, hyperdrives are small enough to fit in single-man ships.

I recently watched this edit and loved it. It’s damn near perfect for my editing-related gripes with TLJ. I think the ONLY thing still in there that I really didn’t like was Rey’s line “Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force” at the start of the First Lesson scene. It just strikes me as incredibly stilted (plus repetitive of the “there’s no light left in Kylo Ren” conversation earlier), and the scene would work just fine if it started with Luke’s subsequent question “What do you know about the Force?”

I was thrilled with this edit. On an objective, technical level, I don’t think I would have known it was a fanedit if I hadn’t seen the official version before (or the fanedit disclaimer at the beginning). You made lots of smart choices that eliminated the things I hated most about ROTS and kept nearly all of the good, plus improved flow (especially the opening battle through the crash landing) and other improvements.

My ONLY nitpicks would be purely-subjective preferences over what bits to cut & what to leave in, But ultimately, this will be my go-to version of ROTS for the foreseeable future. Thanks, and great job!

I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this, and I enjoyed it a lot!

Pros – a lot of clever tweaks improved multiple scenes, good use of the deleted scenes, and GREAT use of additional dialogue from Clone Wars and the ROTS video game. Above all, you succeeded in making Anakin a more assertive and respected character.

I had a few nitpicks and personal preferences for other things I’d have liked to see changed from the official movie, but nothing huge. Impressive work overall, and the philosophy behind it absolutely paid off.

Really cool! Another thing I wonder about is if cutting out the “alright” in the middle of the line would help everything gel better. Aside from the volume discrepancy, the other thing that sticks out about the line is that Hayden is talking noticeably faster than in the rest of the scene. “You weren’t there…I did what I had to do” might sound more consistently paced, like two more of the kinds of declarations he’s already saying in the official movie (if that makes sense).

I love everything I’m hearing about your edit, from the thoughtful philosophy behind it to a ton of clever choices, and it also happens to sound like the closest yet to my personal tastes in terms of striking a balance between fixing flaws and respecting canon.

As for the birth of Vader scene, I had an idea I thought I’d throw out there, just in case it strikes you as worthwhile:

• PALPATINE: It seems, in your anger, you killed her.
• VADER: What? No… [Vader writhes a bit, Force rumbling sound begins] …she was alive! I felt it! I… [Force rumbling fades away] …I couldn’t have…
• End scene on close-up of Vader’s face. He doesn’t get off the table at all, and there’s no “NOOOO.”

I think that final twist of the knife is an important element to retain, and depicting it with an initial flash of angry denial that quickly gives way to quiet realization could be a really effective way of conveying it.

Either way, I can’t wait for the finished product! Thanks for all your hard work, and I’m looking forward to AOTC!

I loved the movie overall, and I think most of its flaws are relatively minor stuff that could be fixed or mitigated with light cuts, but I have VERY mixed feelings about its handling of Luke. The way he died – a display of the Force that was incredibly powerful yet epitomized “knowledge and defense” rather than attack, followed by peacefully disappearing while gazing on a twin sunset – was brilliant and perfect…except for the timing. Luke restoring the Jedi Order was one of the only specific bits of unfinished business the OT gives the main heroes, so to kick that can down the road to Rey’s generation just feels wrong.

So that’s the one thing I’d most like to see addressed by a fan-edit not beholden to official canon – whether by rearranging things in a set of Sequel Trilogy edits, moving Luke’s death to IX, simply cutting Luke’s fadeaway & the “he’s gone, I felt it” lines, removing the glow effect from Episode IX Luke, etc. But I don’t think it’s worth attempting until we know what Episode IX gives us to work with in terms of both Luke material and whether we see more Jedi begin to be trained at any point.

I also think there’s a decent chance of Abrams course-correcting in IX with substantial use of Luke as a Force Ghost (though there’s obviously only so much that can be done now that he’s dead), and there’s some indication he had a somewhat different motive for Luke’s exile in mind – TFA ends with him in full Jedi robes (which, okay, could simply be Rule of Cool), but he has no reason to be wearing them most of the time under Johnson’s characterization, so much so that changing clothes is one of the first things Luke does. Besides, it’s one thing to want to go into hiding, and another thing to specifically do so at the site of the universe’s oldest Jedi Temple. I bet Abrams and Kasdan’s original idea was that Luke sought it out not because he wanted to end the Order, but that he was looking for some sort of long-lost Force knowledge that could give him some new insight into the dark side and turn Ben back…but never found it.

But again, it all depends on what material Episode IX gives fan editors to work with.

ANH and TESB Revisited were absolutely incredible, and I am looking forward immensely to ROTJ Revisited. Longtime reader, VERY rare commenter here. If I may throw in a few ideas and thoughts:

• It might be cool to add Jabba’s unused line “I was killing your kind back when being a Jedi meant something.” Hardly important, of course, but a potentially nice touch.

• Jedi Rocks is musically much worse than Lapti Nek, and a lot of the moments of the new CGI band members are WAY too cartoonish. However, the awkwardness of the original Sy Snootles puppet during that scene still strikes me as a problem, and it would be a shame to lose every shot of the other new additions. Something like this seems close to ideal for me personally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7omDRTzbmM … but of course, if fixing Snootles through cantina-izing alone is possible, more power to you!

• In the official cut, once Luke jumps back onto the skiff plank, he stands there waiting for his lightsaber to fall into his hand long enough for one of the guards to attack him. Maybe cutting/shortening a shot or shots in that sequence could make it quicker? Maybe even have Artoo launch the saber before Luke makes his move?

• “Luke, you’re going to find that that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” As iconic as the previous “what I told you was true depending on your point of view” line may be, this explanation that followed it seems more like Obi-Wan is rationalizing rather than delivering wisdom. The focus should be Obi-Wan coming clean unconditionally and the audience learning how painful Anakin’s betrayal was for him too, not detached equivocation.

• I was glad to read that Adywan is going to be reducing Leia’s dialogue during the “you’re my sister” scene. Both Harrison and Carrie’s performances don’t quite match the level of their Hope and Empire performances, and with Leia in particular her dialogue seem to be written differently too. It’s always been jarring. Hopefully other out-of-character moments can be tweaked throughout the movie.

• Maybe removing Vader’s “He will come to me?” It seems like an odd duplication when Palpatine already told him “in time he will seek you out” in a previous scene.

• Luke’s line “I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate” sounds less like a passionate plea than it does trying to recite the line as fast as possible for some reason. Maybe introducing a pause between those two sentences would suffice to make it more natural? Or, barring that, would cutting “let go of your hate” be seen as a bridge too far?

• I always thought it might be cool if when Luke surrenders to Vader, Vader igniting Luke’s lightsaber was moved to after the stormtroopers lead him away. That way, it would come across as Vader reflecting on Luke’s words about whether he’s redeemable, an expression of his internal conflict symbolized by Vader holding a Jedi rather than Sith blade for the first time in decades.

• Just one instance of Palpatine or Yoda using the word “Sith” would be great, if possible. Even before the prequels, it was a strange omission.

• Last I read, Adywan intends to keep Coruscant at the end (albeit with the celebration changed to a riot), which presumably means Bespin and Tatooine are staying too…but is Naboo on the chopping block? It would be a shame to lose one harmless bit of prequel connectivity (“wesa free” aside; of course get rid of that), given many fans will be marathoning Revisited alongside their preferred prequel edits. In fact, I’d personally like to see a couple more planets, particularly Kashyyyk. (For those who ignore the prequels, brief flashes of previously-unseen worlds can just be viewed as a tour of a vast galaxy that’s much larger than a lawless backwater like Tatooine and obscure gas mine Cloud City.)

• Finally, bear with me on this last one: I know Adywan intends to restore Sebastian Shaw as Anakin’s Force ghost. I understand why; regardless of one’s like or dislike of the prequels, it was staggeringly sloppy and lazy of Lucas to simply reuse existing footage of Hayden’s head that hadn’t even been aged up to look like a man who’d be in his late forties. Having said that…Shaw still presents the audience with the opposite problem: Obi-Wan standing next to his former student as played by someone a decade older than Alec Guinness. Is there any sort of visual tweaking that could be applied to make Shaw look somewhat younger, somewhat easier to connect with the character audiences know from either the prequels or the Clone Wars? Facial tweaking, more hair, darker robes, anything?

Thanks! Nice work; I enjoyed it. Definitely a more interesting take on the scene than “Jedi Rocks”!

That would be fantastic. Thank you!

Does anybody by any chance know whether someone ever created a HQ version of this clip or something similar?