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Rogue One. Jyn gets told a list of her crimes after busting her out of imperial prison (cant remember them off the top of my head but one of them is “resisting arrest”). This is ok I guess, they are just reminding her of what imperial laws she has broken to warrant her arrest by said imperials. Later, however, during the discussion on whether to believe her or not about her fathers message, they say something along the lines of “why should we believe this criminal?” surely it doesn’t matter to them that she broken imperial law? Can anyone give a good explanation?

fmalover said:

Since many of you have discussed how Rey is so OP in the Force I’d like to say you know which character should have been portrayed as having Rey’s talents with the Force? Anakin Skywalker.

Think about it. Throughout the OT both Obi-Wan and Yoda talk about how strong Anakin was with the Force, but once the prequels were done we never actually saw him do anything particularly impressive with the Force. All we see him do is move stuff around and do pretty ordinary stuff with the Force. Anakin should have been the one shown doing all the things Rey does without breaking a sweat, like instinctively Force pushing enemies to defend himself, or telekinetically pulling a lightsaber towards his hand and instantly knowing how to wield it, much like Rey does in TFA.

Yes but if Anakin was like Rey then he would be able to do everything and have no struggles at all. I dont think thats what George was going for, nor do I like the idea. There needs to be some level of tension.

SilverWook said:

Luke was wounded, and probably slowly freezing to death. And you try Force pulling your saber with the blood rushing to your head! 😉

Lol yeah you are right again, and I will fully admit that. But that doesn’t change my mind that I feel like Disneys version of force users are far too powerful and learn too quickly. Like I said, Rey learns all of Lukes/Anakins skills in 1 film, unlike their 3. Rey already beat Kylo in the first film, there is no tension at all for the final film. Ether she will beat him yet again or Kylo will just say “yeah, being bad is bad” and become good. They could have made Reys powers work. For example, Snoke could have been Darth Pleagusus, he learned how to bring others back to life, now his own. He made Anakin 2.0 - Rey. So insanely powerful that she can do everything really quickly and needs no training. But this doesnt correct the issue that there is no tension at all. Thats the whole point in NOT making your jedi godlike. It ruins the tension. What I also find funny is that the other characters dont even act like this is a first. The most insanely powerful force user ever but Yoda and Luke arnt fussed.

On top of this, and I know that this is irrelevant to our convo, but they constantly crack jokes at the bad guys and, as a viewer, I cant help but feel the same. They are to be laughed at. For example, before 7 was out I thought Kylo looked daft but when I seen him in movie form, at the beginning of the film, with the voice, attitude etc I realised that I was wrong. Buuuut…then Poe mocks him and, as a viewer, my perception of the bad guy comes from how the heros feel about him. Kylo is a good bad guy for 2 mins and then he is a joke for the entire sequel trilogy. Beaten, joked and mocked about multiple times.

SilverWook said:

All broom boy did was levitate a broom. It’s been implied Luke was subconsciously tapping into the Force which helped his piloting skills on Tatooine before he was even aware of it. Ditto for young Anakin. That’s not instant knowledge of the Force.

When the Jedi went looking for Force sensitive kids, I imagine levitating small light objects is one of the tells. Another child might display precognitive abilities. Still another might be a great pod racer. They would be pretty hard to find otherwise.

Yeah I get all that. The problem I find with it is that Luke clearly struggled to get his lightsaber, far older than broom boy who pulls the broom towards him without a care. Also Reys first ever lift with heavy objects (the boulders) is done with ease. That was deffinetly not something that Luke taught her. Rey did everything that Luke did throught the whole OT in just TFA. Then we are to belive that she is going to Luke for training?

Hope you all dont mind me jumping in here. There is an idea that I had ages ago that might mesh well with some of these other ideas. I actual have a rough cut of this and it works well. Might properly start this project after 9 comes out and I can get a better grip on how the mashup will go. Anyway:

Episode 7 - Have most of the opening of TFA as it is (until i can think of something else) up until Rey and Finn escape Jakku with BB8, ties destroyed. BB8 tells them where their base is and they go straight there. Destroyer is still over Jakku (we know this from Finn and Pow escaping said destroyer, ties came from it too). Snoke is angry at Hux, says that they are "tied to the end of a string. They get to the rebel base and thats when Han enters the falcon so, basically, Han is still a general and fighting. No reset of his character arc.

Its from here that Rey speaks to Maz about Lukes lightsaber. Less coincidental that the rebels have the saber and the “Mazs castle planet” actually blends well with the “rebel base planet” (lucky that Disney only do wood, snow and desert planets). Like I said, I have tested this and it works but needed a little bit of background replacement. Rey now needs to go to Luke (due to now having a map to the jedi temple) but getting an explanation in there that Leia isnt going is tough. May be because the First Order attacks and she needs to stay to do commander stuff. Not sure, its shot too calmly. Anyway, this is how the “tied to the end of a string” line fits. They tracked the falcon there. They now have to escape and the film merges from 7 into 8. Rey starts training with Luke and the Rebels are forced down to crait. Movie ends during training with Rey.

Episode 8 - A few days have gone by while the First Order regather their troups for an assault on crait (not sure I like this, too close to Ep5. Maybe remove those half broken speeders). Because of the regroup of the first order, Rey has trained for the same length of time. Rey and Luke now go to crait together.

Theres a lot of edited out scenes that can be used later but will have to see what can be done when 9 is out. If I can get the movies to be 1.5 hous ill be happy. Might have to rethink the whole thing but i WILL be doing something like this. Will require quite a bit of VFX work though.

Mavimao said:

I honestly think the new makers want to re-shape the whole Force-training aspect of the original/prequel trilogy in order to move the narrative of new stories along faster.

Instead of having every new Force sensitive person having to dedicate a chunk of his or her life training (and thus taking up narrative time as well), we can do an X-Men-esque “awakening” in which characters are given raw powers but need guidance on what to do with those powers (so with great power comes great responsibility etc).

I understand fans’ frustrations with Rey’s sudden abilities, but did we really need another training montage?

No, we dont need another training montage but there are tons of ways around it. Have the training happen in between films, just like the OT & PT did, its been done before. You could even do it like they did in the Clone Wars TV show. Ahsoka was already trained to use her powers (assumed by Yoda - see Ep2) but when passed onto Anakin to continue her training, all she needed was “guidance on what to do with those powers” - exactly like you said. Story doesn’t have to slow down at all for the sake of training.

With all these insane new powers and instant knowledge on how to use them (including broom boy), jedi are starting to feel more like gods and Luke, under Disney cannon, is now the weakest jedi that ever lived with how much he struggled. Even Anakin “the chosen one” had it rough.

RogueLeader said:

Regardless, I think going through that process made me really think about what those movies were trying to say, and in the end it made me appreciate the prequels we already have even more. And while the movies clearly have problems (enter fan edits), I love the overall story they tell.

Maybe you won’t ever come around on the new films, and if you ever want to talk about them with me I would be happy to share my opinion, but I think for all of the people it is just going to take time for them to really get into them. I’m not saying they’re perfect, I’m over on the fan edit threads all the time trying to think of ways to improve them, but I think the overall story fits appropriately with the saga as a whole.

I personally love the prequels but yes, they do have a bunch of issues. BUT like you say, you love the story, even though the execution was off. However, I dont see much of a story in the sequel trilogy except from “We are bad and you are good. Lets fight!”. 7 isnt connected well to 6 (no, I shouldnt have to read 3 books to know whats going on) and 7 & 8 dont connect well ether. There is no narrative that links each together. When watching 2 & 5 for the first time, you somewhat knew what to expect story wise. Ep8 cuts away from 7 and yet sets nothing at all up by the end of it that literally ANYTHING could happen in 9 due to a lack of overarching story. Of course, some may like this and thats fine.

If I ever do start warming up the the sequels, it would have to be through a fan edit that massively overhauled the story and, unfortunately, that seems only possible through title crawls and/or reshuffling scenes & doing background replacement in order to create a totally different narrative. Been thinking a lot about this actually.

NeverarGreat said:

I think TLJ is divisive precisely because it seemed to be crafted to cater to those who found no interest in TFA. Everything set up in the Force Awakens, from the map to Luke to Hux and Snoke, to the Knights of Ren and Rey’s history, are all either ignored or confirmed as narrative dead-ends to be used at face value and then discarded. It is not that this makes TLJ bad. On the contrary, taken in isolation it works well.

I mostly agree with this. TFA was amazing in the cinema but after getting it on DVD, I came to the realisation what a bad film it was. Aside from the fact that its ANH again, the first half of the film is just a string of insane coincidences that get everyone to where they need to go. Not only that but its barely linked to 6 at all, like there is a film missing in between and, presumably, just so that they can do ANH again. Though, I admit that a few of the setups might of paid off so I was still interested. R1 was ok.

I walked out of TLJ on the day that it opened and it killed my love of SW for a long time. Ive only recently just started watching the films again. Aside from Luke trying to murder someone is their sleep, he abandoned his friends, causing one of them to die. Kylo went to the dark side, murdered TONS of innocents and blew up planets because his uncle tried to murder him? Character motivation flips constantly, the plot felt like a filler episode of TCW TV show and there are a few violations to cannon. Yes, people can disagree with me on this last one but its my opinion. Weaponizing hyperspace and allowing force ghosts, who can pop up whenever and wherever they want, the power to destroy things with lightning was a terrible idea. Yoda was goofy like the way in ESB to test Lukes patience, not his actual self and the list goes on…

NeverarGreat said:

But TFA was the start of a very different story, and to follow it with this is like forcing the pieces of two different puzzles together. It doesn’t matter if Rian’s oil painting is better than the crayon imitation of Star Wars from JJ, when put together it still results in a royal mess.

This.

I also dont want the mystery of Hans backstory explained to me ether. Sometimes the mystery is better than the actual answers. Will never watch.

oojason said:

‘Disney bought Lucasfilm six years ago today and has already recouped its $4 billion investment’…

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/six-years-after-buying-lucasfilm-disney-has-recouped-its-investment.html
 

“and has already recouped its $4 billion investment” - if these films were free to make and market then yes…but they arn’t.

NeverarGreat said:

I didn’t mean to imply that every scene of the Falcon is there purely because of nostalgia, just that its initial inclusion was very much for that purpose (and to get Han on board). But once the Falcon is now the ST ship of choice, there’s really no way to change its identity.

Listing all the scenes which rely on it being Han’s old ship:
-Han and Chewie finding and boarding the Falcon
-Han complaining about the compressor, and Rey’s solution
-The Tracking Ball reference and Game table
-Han thinking about hiring Rey to look after the Falcon

-Luke mourning Han’s death and the metal dice
-The Falcon drawing TIEs away at Crait (Requires Kylo’s hatred of Han and the Falcon)

I get what what your saying but I think we are both looking at this from a different point of view. Not to speak for you, but I am assuming that you are looking at this from the viewpoint of the films as is with minimal/no editing. I’m looking at it from my own personal heavily edited version of TFA (which a few of those points are cut) but mainly from my in-progress “sequel trilogy redux” project. While TLJ isn’t out yet on BR/DVD, as long as my plans work out and don’t get changed, the only point there that’s going to be included is the game table reference (and a slight possibility of drawing the TIEs away). Nether of them are even necessary, at least not for my version. Ive only seen the TFA once in cinema and a quick glimpse on cut scenes when editing so I actually completely forgot that two of those points even existed.

NeverarGreat said:

The Falcon is stitched into the ST’s DNA. No amount of rotoscoping can change that, since almost every scene with the Falcon relies on it being that particular vessel of nostalgia.

I’m not sure whether or not you mean nostalgic for the viewer or the characters but ether way, I completely disagree.

If you mean for the characters - There are only two scenes as far as I remember that reference nostalgia so far. One with Luke entering and turning the lights on and “Chewie, we’re home”. These can easily be cut or, if really needed, changed. It’s not like they constantly talk about the old days while aboard it.

If you mean for the viewer - While the final film isn’t out yet, I’ve started doing some background replacement in advance for my “Sequel Trilogy Redux” and my son became interested so I showed him parts of the film that I thought might hold his attention while I pointed out characters and names. One was the escape from Jakku and he really liked it, mainly BB8 who he calls “Baby 8”. At no point did he say that “the Falcon held the scene together due to nostalgia”. To him, it was a new ship, it could have been any ship. It really doesn’t matter what ship it is, the Falcon isn’t necessary.

The only scene that I would agree with you on is with how Han picks up Rey, Finn and BB8. The Falcon is needed for Han to be searching for it and he found it because it can be easily tracked (which is flimsy anyway, I can poke holes in that). But since I want to have Rey follow BB8s instructions on where their base is and head straight there, where Han is still a general, this whole scene is scrapped for me. Falcon not needed.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I think the trilogy should have its own ship. The Prequels had Padme’s ships, which, while different in each film, all had the same interior, as well as the same chrome texture on the exterior. The Originals had the Millenium Falcon, obviously. The Sequels have…also the Falcon. How about the Falcon is destroyed when it crashes on Starkiller Base. All subsequent scenes featuring it would have another ship in its place. I really hope Episode IX introduces a ship like this to make adding more natural, not to mention not having to design it ourselves. The main issue will be rotoscoping the characters whenever they’re in the Falcon cockpit to place them in the new ship’s cockpit instead. That would probably be a nightmare. We could simply cut most of those shots, since they aren’t that important. We’d be cutting the shot of Luke in it anyways, since all he does is look at the familiar cockpit and retrieve the dice, none of which works if it isn’t the Falcon.

If this were done by someone else and it was good enough, I’d consider asking permission to use it. For me, however, it’s not a big enough deal for me to want it changed since I think there is so much other work that needs done. Whoever did this would probably need to have experience in 3D modeling/animation which I don’t have. Maybe the OP does?

Correct me if I am wrong but i cant find any extended edits on .info (eg octoroxx’s ep3)

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. This is an imperfect analogy but the closest historical example I can think of at the moment.

The Republic and the First Order each occupied a large part of the galaxy. Wary of an arms race out of a fear it could provoke war, the Republic signed a disarmament treaty with the First Order, which reneged on the agreement. The Republic secretly provided indirect support to the Resistance while publically denying this.

See, this is all good stuff and makes them feel like less of an empire 2.0 but the problem is that none of this was actually in the film. Its a huge shame. However, this may have been done intentionally since TFA was meant to be a nostalgic film with it being so close to ANH. Problem is that the nostalgia doesn’t hold up through repeated viewing and you start asking questions to which the film (or the whole sequel trilogy) doesn’t answer.

LordPlagueis said:

Logically, one person must have been the first Force user in the galaxy if you go back far enough. That person must have taught himself without training. Right?

While true, I imagine that scenario being a long long process of them discovering the power to becoming fully trained. Far longer than normal Jedi to be trained (from kid to adult). I’d even say that he/she wouldn’t have even come close to mastering the power but passed what little they knew to someone else who continued exploring the possibilities. Now we come to Rey with huge spikes in knowledge and power without even being told that any of these possibilities exist. Like I said in a previous post in this topic, apparently the cannon explanation is due to the force balancing her out with Kylo (which is why there’s a lot of talk about balance etc in TLJ) but if that’s the case then now Disney have went and put a plot hole in the original trilogy since the force never balanced out Luke and Vader so that he could kick his ass in Cloud City. It’s as if they just wanted to skip any training so that they could just carry on with the story without any regard as to what has come before.

hk47awesome said:

I agree to an extent with most of the criticisms but unlike OP and a lot of others who share them, I don’t hate the films at all just as I didn’t hate the Prequels either… TLDR I agree with the criticisms though that doesn’t make me hate the new films just like my criticisms of the Prequels didn’t make me hate them either. I love Luke’s display of Force Mastery at the end and I don’t mind what they did with Snoke. My issue lies more in the over arching story. It definitely should have been New Republic versus First Order. I’ve written new opening crawls for both TFA and TLJ that emphasize the role of the New Republic, acknowledging its presence as if it hasn’t been completely destroyed. From there, the only edits that need to be made are to the few instances where they imply “no one is coming”. No, fuck that, the New Republic absolutely would be coming but they just can’t get the signal far enough or something to that effect. That’s about the best you can hope for. The rest would basically be a fan film, not a fan edit.

Yeah, I get all that and mostly, if not completly, feel the same but…like you said, the over arching story is a problem. For the most part, there is none and if there is anything at all that you can think of, there is no progress, change or learning curve for characters happening at all. Which is why I feel like the sequels need to be heavily edited (one of quite a few reasons). TLJ is a huge example of this and the ending is so final feeling that there is no next objective for anyone to be excited for the next film except “kylo has to die/convert to the light side”. Of course, this was the same objective as in previous middle chapters but there was much more pilled on top of that.

It seems like Disney are more concerned of making each film it’s own thing and, if you look at each film as is, they are good as long as you don’t take them too seriously. Unfortunatly, some people do and find flaws. If you compaire character personalities, motivations, past story lines, galixy politics etc. that are all set up in previous fiilms, it doesn’t totally match up and sometimes not make sence. Plot points are dropped and forgotten about between films. Lots of decisions made for nostalgic reasons and not for actually making something new and good.

If you take a few flaws of the films so far:

-TFA was a copy of ANH
-Rey doesn’t have any training or need it at all but previous films say that you do. If the force can just make Rey stronger to balance out the light and dark (official explination apparently), why didn’t the force just balance out Luke so that he could kick vaders ass at the end of ep5?
-No large over arching story between films

These flaws are all fixed by doing the edit mentioned on page 1 - Have Rey trained in TFA and have the Resistance trapped on Crait at the end of the film. The more flaws you find and attempt to fix, the better the sequel trilogy could turn out. Just chaning the Resistance to the Republic and making it so that they cant get the message out on Crait doen’t fix the majority of flaws.

Jake Skywalker said:

I’m thinking about it and I still don’t know how easy would it be. Why does it appear so young? How does he survive? Or is he killed in the duel? One option would be moving the duel at the end of TFA, explaining why he is younger. Or could he be digitally aged to make him duel at the end of TLJ? (maybe the best option)

Well, I have only seen TLJ once as I was let down but as far as I remember, Luke only had a bit of a haircut and beard trim. Correct me if i’m wrong. I’d just take it as Luke had a shave on the way. Don’t think thats an issue.

Personally, when I get round to editing I’d probably make it so that Luke just keeps Kylo busy for as long as he can. He bought time for them, knowing that he wasn’t going to make it if he did. He sees the falcon leaving the planet and, knowing that he is now one person vs Kylo, Ties and a bunch of walkers, he is happy to go. Kinda do a Ben thing and have it so that when Kylo slashes through Luke for the first time, just mask over Luke, have him fade out and put in a cloak drop.

With Luke footage being 95% at the island and the rest on crait, I don’t think there is any other option to be fair. Due to Han not duying in TLJ, if follwing the story edit I mentioned before, we actually could have all three of them meet up together and say goodbye to Luke. Would have to mask in Han and find some dialogue for him. I’d be happy with a single line and then cut to something else.

Since Han hasn’t died yet. Was thinking of using that shot where they jump to hyperspace with the Rathtar on the window in TFA. Could use this shot when they leave Crait. Just remove the view from the windows and put a moving shot of crait outside. Think Han says “punch it chewie” in this shot. Cut back outside and luke sees the falcon shoot off. Then lets Kylo take him out.

Han obviously doesn’t HAVE to be the one flying it here but as there is only so much footage of old Han, I’d repurpose it all as much as possible to keep him on screen.

… speaking of dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmOPXhFensg 😄

Exactly what I was thinking of!

Jake Skywalker said:

I see your point. As Pixar’s Emma Coats says “Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.” But, given the material we have, we’d end up with Rey and Finn as strangers… I don’t know about that…

Your probably right. As much as the sequels arn’t for me, I actually like Finn but that might be just due to John’s likeability. He’s a cool guy lol. I actually felt bad when he was going to sacrifice himself. So, yeah it would be good to keep them together as to establish character etc. Hopefully find some lines from Poe that can be mashed together to give some sort of explanation to Finn when they meet up again so that he didn’t leave for no reason.

I’d try (but I don’t know if it’s possible) to trim the dialogue to avoid any mention of the Resistance, while establishing the New Republic in the crawl. This is a possible TFA crawl that:

• justifies Luke’s journey as needed in is path as a Jedi Master (and avoid to make him just run away);
• establish the New Republic and Leia’s role in it;
• as you say, make Poe retrieving the whole map from Lor San Tekka (another problem: who is him? just another random character thrown in by JJ… 😕 ).

Anyway, here’s the crawl:

Luke Skywalker has vanished! The Jedi Master left in order to find the SACRED JEDI TEXTS, the ancient books containing the knowledge and the wisdom needed to rebuild the Order.

Luke doesn’t know that, in his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER is born from the ashes of the Empire, menacing the fragile NEW REPUBLIC, for which Princess Leia Organa is tirelessly traveling as ambassador from system to system, hoping to annex as many planets as possible.

Desperate to find her brother Luke, Leia has sent the most daring pilot of the Republic on a secret mission to Jakku, where an old ally has discovered a map to the possible Luke’s whereabouts…

Not a bad crawl, I might actually use this as a template and tweak it a bit for my own edit, If you don’t mind lol. Lor San Tekka is another thing but I don’t think that he is a big enough issue to worry about. Only possible way I can think of fixing him is just adding it to the crawl but he barely has any screen time so it might come off as strange. Plus, by changing it from him having a map to Luke (as stated in the crawl) to a map to the Jedi temple. It makes the issue even less important. They know Lukes gone to the temple, just don’t know where it is themselves, but Tekka does. Of course, this might bring up the point of why wouldn’t he just tell them through hologram or whatever. I’m assuming that they must of contacted him previously to meeting him.

I think the biggest problem would be with a continuity issue due to Kylo Ren with his helmet off/on and scarred face/no scar. Mainly since the whole trilogy would be completely rearranged.

Also, as you said previously, I would also prefer Luke to go in person. Would be easy enough to do. Need to keep in mind that his lightsaber would have to be recolored and handle replaced with his green one. Would love an actual clash of blades too but no idea how to properly pull that off. Maybe I’m just dreaming but I’m gonna try anyway.

Jake Skywalker said:

Apart from not having Rey and Finn together in TFA (I really like how they interact)

Yeah, I totally get that and I did think of that while thinking of this. The idea was to reduce the number of coincidences and the fact that Poe is so eager to take Finn back to Jakku but then just goes back to base after crashing.

Coincidences in original cut - Map and Rey are on the same planet, BB8 runs into Rey, Rey and BB8 run into Finn, the 3 run into Han, Rey Finds the lightsaber at Mazs castle where Han takes them (maybe more?).

In this version - Map and Rey are on the same planet, BB8 runs into Rey.

Far less in this version. I guess running into Finn would just be one more but then Poe just leaves without BB8. I dunno.

Not sure how you would turn the Resistence into the New Republic aside from the crawl. There must be a lot of important dialogue with “The Resistance” in it and almost no one says New Republic so there isn’t any chance of dubbing over.

I have more or less the same feelings as the OP and yeah, there is bearly any explination on whats going on politics wise etc. I had no idea where the First Order came from or why the New Republic and the Resistance weren’t part of the same team. It wasn’t until much later that I found it all out by reading. The New Republic didn’t see the First Order as a threat so started laying down weapons, Leia thought otherwise and created the Resistance etc. It’s a lot for a faneditor to cram into an opening crawl, especially when also having to explain about the map and Luke.

This will be a long post but my thoughts on how to do this was:

TFA - Somehow fit into the crawl who the First Order are and that Luke has gone to the island for the Jedi Temple. Luke is now needed but they don’t know where the temple is. The guy with the map at the start of TFA knows where and gives them the map (full map).

Events carry on as normal but Finn and Poe escape in the Tie, no crash. First Order go for the droid on the planet below as they got it out of him earlier. Next time we see Finn and Poe is when they enter the Resistance base together. Troopers catch Rey with the droid, the run to escape and board the falcon, Falcon vs Ties then Rey asks bb8 where the base is. Finn would have to be masked out of shots and any fire coming from the falcon will have to be removed as, obviously, Finn isn’t there to shoot. Will take a lot of work but Ive quickly looked over it and I think its possible.

Scenes from TLJ tell us that they are tracking the Falcon using the new tech. Rey lands at the Resistance base (can use shots from the planet where Maz’s castle is as the scenery is quite similar as far as I can remember). When the Falcon lands BB8 reunites with Poe and Han and Chewie enter (still a general and part of the Resistence) and discuss the map with Rey on board (whered you get this from? Jakku. I told you we should of searched there Chewie etc) BB8 shows the full map to Leia. Rey goes down the stairs to find Lukes lightsaber and leaves for training. First order appear above (as they were tracking the falcon) and they have to evacuate the base.

TLJ evacuation and escape is intercut with Rey meeting luke and training begins, Resistance lands on Crait. Film ends on Rey swinging her staff at the rocks and cuts on Lukes face.

TLJ - Crawl says that its been a few days since TFA, First Order know that the Resistance are trapped so have spent the time rearming and have brought in the walkers. Rey has been training for the same length of time. When we first see Rey she is now using her lightsaber on the rock to mirror her at the end of the last film.

Ive got tons more ideas and a good bit of TLJ worked out but I’ll leave it at that for now. I’ll be working on my own version at some point in the future (probably after EP9) but your welcome to take any ideas of mine.

Edit: Since reading your post again, the part about snoke - if it isn’t answered in EP9, I may shange the reflection Rey sees of herself to Snoke. In the waterfall shot after, instead of a voiceover from Rey, we hear Palpatine say something like “Darth Plegasis was so powerful, he was able to create life” or whatever he said. This would answer who he is and tie the sequels into the prequels a bit better. Currently, the sequel trilogy feels more like its been forced onto the end of episodes 1-6 and doesn’t quite connect as episode 6 seemed so final.

Seen it too. Its not been edited very well but I was surprised by how much of the first half of the film made sense with so much cut out. Its not until the second half that it starts getting really bad.

Some of the worst bits of editing - Even though Poe is made to be the one who sacrifices himself (with c3po next to him in one shot), he jumps back and forward between being in the small ship with Leia and the large ship. Later on, Poe still has a line of dialogue spoken with him off screen, even though he is supposed to be dead.

Also, its edited so that it looks like Luke boards the falcon with Rey to leave the island but when the Falcon takes off, you can clearly see Luke looking up at it flying away. Later on, Luke walks out in front of the walkers for no reason at all, cry’s and then dies in one hit. Obviously, in the actual film he is buying time for the rest of them but due to some of the main characters being killed off, no one is able to have any dialogue with him so it’s more like Luke has just given up on life and just wants to die as soon as they arrive. It’s weird. Has to be a joke.

Hey,

I hope that I have posted this in the right section. I haven’t noticed anyone else bringing this up (maybe no one cares?), but anyway…I have been watching through the Force Awakens many times as I am working on a Fan Edit. I noticed that the display (the red screen) on Finn’s turret appears to be wrong.

If you watch the whole escape from Jakku scene, it seems like they were using the arrows as an indicator for aiming (which would probably make more sense anyway) but from ANH, arrows actually indicate direction of shots and whether or not they hit their target and where.

The best way to show these differences is in the following two videos.

ANH - 2:25 - The Tie gets hit and an arrow shows direction of shot into the wing and starts to flash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_OSeRxhGOY

TFA - 2:17 - Finn hasn’t fired a single shot and there are arrows flying around the screen in different directions
TFA - 3:09 - Arrow Moves to Ties center and stops there. It hasn’t been hit by Finn, suggesting that its where he is aiming.
TFA - 4:15 - Arrow moves to center of Tie and starts flashing like crazy, showing Finn that he now needs to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sarFZJl3h0

Maybe I am wrong and again, I don’t know if anyone actually cares, but I hate continuity errors lol

I feel like I am standing in an empty room and talking to myself but anyway, not to sound like I am complaining or anything, I am just a bit confused…

As I said before, I didn’t expect anyone to view my topic but 15 people were interested enough to read my post, watch my 13 minute video but not take 10 seconds to reply? I wouldn’t have minded if no one watched my video at all or just said “That was terrible” but I only got 1 reply out of 15 views? Why is that?

Ive seen quite a few people constantly complain about the Rey mind trick (even up to a few days ago but not naming names). Isn’t this a possible solution to that problem that some people have? Are they just trying to spare my feelings from being hurt? Is the video just too long? If so, why bother clicking the video at all? “I just skipped through it and didn’t think that this was a very good way to go about the issue that you and others have” would have been fine. Is it because I am new so not as respected as others? Have I done something wrong?

As I said, not complaining or trying to disrespect anyone, just confused. I am not even sure this will get a reply but hoping for some sort of clarification. Thank you.

Not sure I remember that specific wipe but I’ll watch it again and add it in, see how it looks.

I’m also not sure about the gap in the time it takes from Han lowering the shields to the time the Resistance realise this and send in Poe. Originally, it was instantly but I had to put in a bit of a gap so that Rey could be rescued.

Edezio Enk’or Valorum said:

All I can say is that the Hux-Snoke scene feels pretty short, and the jump to Hux saying to the crew to fire the weapon, was a (too) quick jump (at least for me). Also, the jump from ‘‘bring her to me’’ to the next scene feels, wierd (maybe a wipe like in old sw movies?), and the finn hugging rey feels abrupt too. Other than that, this could work for me.

Thanks for taking your time to check it out, I wasn’t sure if anyone would actually bother.

I’ll see what I can do to fix these quick jumps. It’s been difficult due to whats avalible but i’m sure there will be something I can use to correct it. Thank you very much!

Hello everyone! I am in the middle of making an edit of TFA that I was making for my own private viewing but as it’s gone on, it seems like I may need a second opinion on one section of the film.

I never liked how Rey used the Jedi mind trick to save herself and how she defeats Kylo. I think ive done a good job in “fixing” both of these issues but in order for Finn, Han and Chewie to save Rey, I have had to reorder the majority of scenes that take place on Starkiller base. This means that I am unsure of how well this actually works as I am a bit worried about the pacing and consistency throughout.

I have uploaded the footage and put a link below. Its 13 mins in length (sorry) but if you wish to help me, I hope that you could watch from start to finish and not skip through so that I can get the kind of feedback that I require (pacing & consistency).

A few things to note before watching:
1 Video – The first scene has Hux speaking to Snoke. Kylo should not be there at all. I have removed Kylo from the first 2 shots of Hux but not removed him from the rest so ignore the inconsistency there, it’s a WIP.
2 Audio – It can be kind of bad in certain sections, there is an AWFUL audio cut when we go back to Finn saying “Lower the shields!” to Phasma. It will be corrected, it’s a WIP

Again, im looking for feedback on the pacing and consistency of the entire video. Thank you to anyone who helps.

https://vimeo.com/214496811
Password: fanedit

Hal 9000 said:

Nice! I’ll let Sir Ridley decide how to handle the sequence, but it seems like a distinctly viable way to go, so thank you for making it available.

Thanks. Please don’t feel bad about using Sir Ridley’s version. TBH, I only wanted to post it as, like I said earlier, I am making my own edit and noticed that someone said something along the lines of “Why don’t you just remove the line?” and you said “and leave the lips flapping about?”. I just wanted to show that it was possible, not trying to jump into the project.

Hal 9000 said:

Thanks, and that’s a very interesting idea. In the name of keeping TFA as close to itself as possible while merely implementing low-level restructuring, I think the solution already being worked toward is more appropriate for this project. I’m enjoying the approach of changing as little as possible to have the best overall effect. That said, I’d love to see what you’ve cooked up, especially the Finn line.

I know you won’t use it but just because you asked for it, here it is. Only missing a “What’s that in the sky!?” or something in order for Finn to look up and used NeverarGreat’s Star Destroyer for context. Sorry about the quality, it was taking ages to upload…

I’ll leave you guys alone now and looking forward to your final edit. 😃

URL: https://vimeo.com/212426290
Password: Fanedit