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21C Peasant said:

Hey guys, thanks again for all the interest in this project! As I’ve said before, it was a fun experiment to see if I could make it work. As with most of my fan edits, I was originally just doing it for myself, but in the end, I thought it could at least be inspirational to others.

Anyway, I’ve been hearing that the Snoke identity reference is too hard to pick up. It’s kinda buried because I didn’t want it to be too over the top. I figured it would be better as an Easter Egg, but if you listen closely at 2:00:43, 2:01:08, and 2:05:12 you might pick it up.

SPOILERS AHEAD!
So stop here if you want to figure it out for yourself.

The first time, they chant, “Plagueis the Wise.” The next two times, they chant, “Plagueis.”

I KNEW IT! I JUST KNEW IT!

Spartacus01 said:

Okay, I finally finished watching the edits. You might not like what I’m about to say, but I personally think that being honest is always the best option.

I have five main criticisms:

1. I think that the concepts behind the main story are good, very good in fact. The problem is, the alterations to the original source material are easily noticeable. I know it’s not your fault, and I know that you tried your best to save these movies, but they look too much like fan edits, so to speak. There are a lot of instances where you can tell that things were modified or cut, there are a lot of scenes that shouldn’t be in the place where you put them, etc. Again, I don’t blame you, you really tried to do your best, and I really appreciate it. But I think that, in order to make your vision come true in the best possible and realistic way, we should at least wait 10 more years, allow the technology to advance more, and allow us to create entire new scenes. It’s the only way we can save those movies.

Tbh, I think I have to agree with that, it was an amazing fanedit, but you can just tell it had issues. Like, how can you forget your father’s starship? It would’ve been cooler if the dialogue were like “We can’t outrun them!” “We might! In my father’s ship.”

2. You kept the original motivations that Luke had for going into exile. Yes, he didn’t try to kill Ben in his sleep, but he still went into exile for 20 years and cowardly refused to help his friends because Ben turned to the Dark Side. I don’t think it fits very well with Luke’s character, because Luke is not a hopeless person. In my opinion, it would have been better if you used AI technology to create new dialogue that implies that Luke went into exile because he wanted to find the first Jedi Temple, and wanted to be alone in order to meditate and understand what he did wrong, with the hope of fixing it later. Maybe you could have kept the original dialogue where he talks about the mistakes of the Jedi, but modifying it in order to make Luke say that the Jedi shouldn’t end, but should only be reformed (which is what his Legends counterpart did). Sure, he should feel guilty for Ben’s turn, but it should not be his only reason for going into exile.

I actually disagree with this. Luke is not a hopeless person, but we gotta remember that he caused his own Padawan and nephew to turn against him, and now because of him, Ben is causing genocide and mass murder under the First Order. That’s a lot on a person.

3. During the confrontation between Kylo and Vader, you should have replaced their voices with AI generated voices. They don’t sound nothing like Adam Driver and James Earl Jones.

Yes, but at the same time, it sounded pretty accurate for what it was.

4. I personally think that it would have been better to use the classical Star Wars crawled for both movies. Sure, without the episodic title, but still with the crawl. Instead of showing flashbacks from other shows, I think it would have made more sense to use a crawl to explain what happened, who is Rey, etc.

I echo this. The classical title crawl just fits a lot more than the “A Star Wars Story” crawls.

5. Lastly, this is more of a nitpick criticism, but I personally think that naming Rey “Jaina” was pretty useless. It would have made more sense if her name was Rey and only Rey.

I think the point was to bridge Legends and Canon together. So that we have Jaina from Legends in Canon material.

I hope you didn’t get offended by my criticisms, I’m only trying to be honest.

HOLY CRAP! I’ve long waited for this fanedit, and it did not disappoint. Sure, it’s way too much of a risk to combine Canon and Legends together and make it work, but that risk very much paid off. Jaina’s character is so much better. She is literally a rebellious, sarcastic female Han Solo, which makes perfect sense, as she IS Solo’s daughter. The added scenes of Ben on the search for Vader’s holocron, and his hallucination of fighting him on Starkiller Base is wild, and I love this concept. Snoke is our main villain! FINALLY! All movies for the Sequels edits are now with just Snoke as the villain, instead of Snoke and Palpatine together. The plot is condensed to fit the narrative so much better, and I love the detail that Rey’s helmet has the name “Rey”, it’s a classic show, don’t tell writing strategy that Jaina named herself Rey after forgetting herself and her lineage as the Solo daughter. To further this, characters that don’t yet know Jaina isn’t Rey still call her Rey while her parents and her brother call her Jaina. It’s possibly the best Sequel edits ever. I tip my hat to this man, he’s gone above and beyond, and you all should give these edits a chance, regardless of how you feel about the Sequels, I guarantee this will be much more enjoyable for any Legends fans. MTFBWY!