EddieDean

Could I get a link please, ChainsawAsh?

Definitely a good plan, Kanemedhurst. I like most of the Clone Wars, so I’d advocate for keeping as much as possible - making as many arcs as you can and pruning the bad episodes and sketchy scenes from otherwise good episodes. You’re right that Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and Maul/Mandalore are the main threads of the show though, so depending on how radical you want to go with the editing you could see what you could do to really bring those into focus. Don’t forget the best clone/Palpatine/Yoda episodes though!

Palpatine’s lifelong torment/manipulation (via Snoke/Vader voices) really works, IMO, and makes both characters’ stories in the sequel trilogy better.

Sounds grand! Where are you with your plans for Ep2 and 3?

How about we find some alternative to him throwing the lightsaber away early - perhaps in their fight on the DS2 wreckage Rey damages it - and then he disappears when he’s thrown down the shaft by Palpatine. Rey defeats Palpatine without him, then leaves. After most other plots have resolved, we show Ben climb back up the shaft, then make his own way out of the wreckage for the final heart-to-heart with Han. So roughly at the same time, as we’re wrapping up all the plotlines, we finally have Rey accept her new legacy, and Ben finally reject his Vader one. We end on the ambiguity of what Ben does next as a free man.

I really like that idea.

Yes please!

I think our best option to justify Rey Nobody’s power using existing footage is twofold:

Firstly, imply more training. I’d have Rey with Luke from the beginning of TLJ, to allow more time in-universe to pass until the First Order assault on the rebel base which kicks off the timed plot. I’d try to have as many different scenes of Rey on Ach-To as possible, spread over as much of the movie as possible. I’d try to imply that her training continued in TROS under the tutelage of Jedi from beyond the grave, where possible (you could, at the very least, use the opening crawl).

Secondly, lean into the ‘she’s using the dark’ angle. Luke explicitly says “You went straight to the dark” in TLJ, and we have the accidental lightning scene in TROS - more could maybe be done with effects work, especially that ‘sith rumble’ sound effect, when she’s being particularly powerful.

There’s also the idea that Kylo’s mind probe in TFA goes both ways, and she learns a bit of technique from that, but I think that’s already been solved as well as it can.

tobiwan1984 said:

StarkillerAG said:

DominicCobb said:

StarkillerAG said:

DominicCobb said:

Get over it.

We’re in a fan edit thread. Not getting over things is the only way we can fix them. I think he should be allowed to criticize. Whether his criticisms are valid is another question, but you shouldn’t just try to shut him up like this.

In fairness, it’s not just that his criticisms are bad, but there’s no way to accomplish what he wants. In which case my suggestion is legitimately the best thing he can do.

You’re probably right. His criticisms do belong more in the rewrite thread.

Honestly, I think I can say whatever I want to say as long as I don’t offend anyone…

You’re welcome to think and say whatever you want, even if it does offend people, so long as it doesn’t break the rules. So by all means, you do you. However, since you mention offence-

I’m offended. You use the phrase ‘identity politics’ twice.

Identity politics is a political approach based on people prioritizing the concerns most relevant to their particular racial, religious, ethnic, sexual, social, cultural or other identity. It typically aims to reclaim greater self-determination and political freedom for marginalized groups through understanding each interest group’s distinctive nature and experiences of injustice.

Not one iota of that happens in Disney Star Wars, so I have to read from this that by ‘identity politics’ you mean you object to the prevalence and/or roles of women in these films.

I’ll say it again: Representation is not politics. Representation is not an agenda.

There are plenty of problems to have with these films. There are plenty of problems to have with the power Rey has without training. None of those problems come from the identities - gender or otherwise - of the characters. None of those problems come from the identities of the members of the production teams.

I’m making an assumption there so forgive me if I’ve interpreted your choice of words unfairly. But if not-

Strong women exist. Female characters who serve something other than male characters’ romantic subplot exist. They’re not a threat to you. Get over it.

If the movies existed in isolation without the TV shows (which for me, they don’t), I’d be an advocate for making both Dooku’s and Qui Gon’s sabers the same purple as Windu’s, to imply this kind of grey area of force users, with Dooku being the lesson that there’s a risk they’ll turn sith. As for eyes, eh, I don’t think he’s that dark/powerful to deserve it.

I feel like a couple of things are well and truly spoiled now, and Yoda’s identity is one of them. Culture has absorbed that bit of knowledge, you’d have to go extra young to find someone for whom you could preserve the suprise. (Source: My four year old knows so much Star Wars passively that she immediately called out the Darksaber when it appeared in the Mandalorian)

That Green is nasty and alien. I love it. It looks mysterious and sick, which I think really helps hint at how Palps is still about.

Agreed, idir, A little more subtlety in the green might be best. I think I’d favour a greyscale planet (“dead”) with green fog around the emperor (“mysteriously arcane”), a colour scheme I’d call ‘necron’.

Lesser said:

I had a thought on just changing all the fog in the interior to a greenish and possibly add nightsister chanting from the Clone Wars to add to the resurrection aspect. Not a necessary edit but it could be neat to play around with, and if not it’s just another color change option.

https://streamable.com/egpe4u

This idea deserves a lot of respect!

From an EU perspective, we know that the Nightsisters had resurrection-like magics, and we know that Palpatine cowed them during the Clone Wars.

But the key here is that even without knowing that, it still works. The green is a lovely evil shade that takes us off the usual blue-red Jedi-Sith spectrum and implies that Palpatine has tapped into even more mysterious arcane methods to bring about his return.

I think that this, coupled with changing the vats to have Palpatine bodies, uses all of the established Star Wars rules to far better justify Palp’s return:
Cloning technology + ‘many abilities some consider to be unnatural’ + Nightsister magics => ‘More than a clone, less than a man’.

Really interesting concept. What role does Snoke play in this? And how does the Rey/Kylo arc conclude?

👏Replace👏Palpatine👏with👏Dooku👏you👏cowards!👏

I’d rather just have it subtly glow, or even just a sound effect and gentle vibration to it or something, than have it be cut in the exact shape of the wreckage as seen from the position they conveniently happen to be in.

StarkillerAG said:

EddieDean said:

Whoah! How the hell did you pull together that audio?

The audio was like that in the original movie. Rey calls on the spirits of every Jedi to help defeat Palpatine. Whoever edited that just added subtle still images to match the voices.

Huh! I’ve only watched it the once, so I’d forgotten how dense the sound was.

Whoah! How the hell did you pull together that audio?

Good notes all round, guys. It’s been hinted at in every movie after ANH, so fine to expand on it in the finale without needing Leia Poppins.

As a side note, I doubt that the Leia knowing it was Luke in ESB was originally intended to be her being force sensitive, since she only became his sister (and also the ‘there is another’) in one of the drafts of ROTJ, but retroactively it totally works.

smpearce, I’m convinced too. Well argued.

That’s true, it has been implied since the OT. Still, I’d vote for a hint in the ST before TROS, just to remind the audience.

I’m not a fan of Leia’s spacewalk, so glad it’s removed, but given that TROS shows her training and uses her force sensitivity, is there anything else we can do in order to imply she’s force sensitive a movie early? TROS already has a few too many new things out of left field.

I actually did a little of this a while back, Star Wars Legacy issues 1 and (I think) 7 were set at the same time, showing similar scenes from another prespective, so I cut the two together.

Oh, yes! I love the idea of Purple, since it implies ‘a different path than most Jedi’, as Rey’s yellow one later will too.

Mustafar is really problematic. But it’s a lovely dramatic slow-mo fight scene.

I don’t know why I’m justifying it though, that’s not reason enough for it to stay. It does look great though.