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Hal 9000

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#1419607
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Worst Edit Ideas
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Communicated by a now-subtitled BB8, Rey was temporarily looked after by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s grandson for a couple weeks once when Uncle Plutt (that’s his name and biological relation now, too) was on vacation. BB8 was present for the occasion, being owned by Kenobi before sending him with an urgent message for then-Senator Leia shortly after.

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#1419292
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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I imagine the blue-ness of Luke is a limiting factor. One of the nice things about Nev’s grading is it takes that down a peg.

I’m getting a small business off the ground and so there will be times where I may not be all that active for a while. BUT, things are obviously still in motion and it will all come together. The Rey Nobody version is not pushed back by the default version taking a while, as development of that aspect is in the Rey Nobody thread.

“We’re taking this baby to the mooooooon!”

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#1419246
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Well, I knew there’d be a lot to come back to today after taking the weekend off from this thread.

The Mustafar shot: interesting idea and great mockup. I don’t think I prefer it over the either of the two existing shots we’ve added to the sequence, though, and I wonder if three shots would be too much. Or if it would even harmonize well with the existing forest shot.

The Exegol battle. Boy, oh, boy, I gotta be honest in saying that I don’t really care one way or the other. Personally, if there’s a decent argument to be made for the way it plays on in the theatrical, I’d rather leave it alone. I’ll just put this to bed and decide against making changes to it. Fortunately, as sherlock outlines, the couple of changed needed could easily be made by whomever may want to.

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#1418698
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

Alright, this is a SUPER subtle change but these are the kinds of things that will make Leia’s performance seem more realistic. I added in some light struggle effects when Leia collapses in the command room:

https://youtu.be/V-5pT7YxyB8

I forgot to lower the pitch on it but I think it works well enough as-is.

Pretty subtle indeed, but I like it.

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#1418606
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Thinking about that dumbass Sith fleet.

Seems like the best way to smooth things over would’ve been to portray the FO as crippled, desperate, and scrappy in TLJ. (There could’ve been a dangerous power vacuum.) Then they stood to benefit from an actual fleet in TROS.

The FO was already comically overpowered in TLJ, so it makes little sense to suggest their resources would be increased by a factor of ten thousand. This is compounded by the idea that random monk people on a hidden wasteland built all this (tens of thousands of ships identical to Imperial design) by hand over 30 years out of crap smuggled in from their pockets.

In our retelling, it’s a stashed Imperial fleet, which really can’t be all that large. But there’s just about no way to remove the idea that the FO is beholden to it, or drastically reduce their power in TLJ.