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Absolutely, that’ll save me a lot of effort if you are already doing that. Thanks in advance. 😃

Personally I think a shuttle would be better for believability because he’d found one laying around and it need not be special.

I had ROTJ ready to go but found a problem: I forgot to overlay RogueLeader’s two Sarlacc shots! So it’ll probably be another week of encoding…

If you want to remove the Goonies moment with the knife, it could still be found and need translation to inform them they need to go to Endor.
Then Rey finds it in Kylo’s room and pockets it.

It rough, as you say, but I could see that working potentially. Thanks!

Feel free, certainly! English subtitles exist, so you could take a language subtitle file and align the timing or even just do a custom translation if you really want to.

I’ll try to do Spanish for ROTJ that I’m trying to get out the door, and the others sometime later.

My prequel edits have Spanish subtitles thanks to a volunteer. Originally MalaStrana did the French subtitles but I’ve done them since.

I’ll be sure to do Spanish subtitles for this and future releases, and go back and do them for ANH-TLJ. The work and syncing is done, as I can mirror the English subtitles’ timing to the Spanish ones. It’s not rocket science but requires some time and attention.

Wow, that’s amazing. And it really helps.

Hmm, we’ve only see one TIE like that, and we’d have to assume it was on the DSII. This concern might be silly in light of having the wreckage be the way it is in the movie, but I’d find it more believable if he arrives in a craft of which there were presumably many. Maybe he had to rummage around a while to find one that actually worked. A shuttle could be cool, and only enough of it would need to be in frame as would appear from that distance due to its size.

Hard to keep up with everything, but I keep tabs even when I can’t do any actual work. I’ll keep revisiting the crawl until we get it solved. Thanks for the continued good feedback.

Even when the baby sleeps well, leave it to something like my wife having hiccups to drive me here in the middle of the night.

I was perusing the review thread and saw a good point raised by NeverAr: Kylo shouldn’t have been able to take the TIE fighter from the Death Star II to Exogol, as ANH made clear that they do not have hyperdrives. Given that we see it for all of one shot, standing still, it should be feasible to replace with something else, like an Imperial shuttle or a TIE variant.

Then again, it doesn’t really make sense for Luke’s X-wing to be functional without serious work either. TLJ showed us he used part of a wing for a door. Lol, maybe for the few interior shots of the X-wing, it could be made to look gross and covered in moss.

Part of why it sucks is that it is ostensibly the end, the final conclusion. If episodes 10-12 were a foregone conclusion rather than explicitly precluded by all the marketing, I might be just a bit less harsh on this movie.

It really is difficult for me to muster goodwill for this movie. It’s just so… dumb is the only word that fits it. It’s a paint by numbers cowardly way to handle the conclusion. And I don’t blame anybody in particular, just the platonic construct of the “author.” I don’t care what went on behind the scenes or politically, the end result needs to be treated as a product of an author, even if there were many hands involved at a high level. And I just don’t see that author as having anything interesting to say. It feels to me like someone tasked with doing something they didn’t want to do and finding the easiest path to completion. An algorithm wrote the movie, with no sense of myth and only a sense of storytelling inferred from earlier material and regurgitated as a matter of rote.

It’s an after dinner mint served in lieu of the final course, which turned out to use artificial sweetener.

The author of this movie, who appears to be no one particular person and could very well not truly exist as such, is a hack fraud. It’s really saying something that the prior movie, without being modified at all, makes for a genuinely superior ending and your movie actively detracts from the sum of the series. This movie felt obligated to exist, and this pervades it.

It was made by Gill from The Simpsons.

Episode IX
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

Rebellion has been kindled. To suffocate a growing uprising, the tyrannical First Order has silenced communication between neighboring systems.

While Rey, sole heir to the Jedi, continues her training, General Leia Organa has dispatched her brave agents across the stars to unite the disparate worlds in the name of Resistance.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar, chasing whispers of a hidden power that would allow him to destroy any threat to his rule…

Yeah… as genuinely interesting as that is as an idea and a mock-up, I just don’t quite buy it. I’ll likely keep the Han scene more or less as is.

And poppasketti, I missed your TIE flyover before. Nice work! That’ll make excellent visual continuity between the pan down from the crawl to the planet surface, whether or not anything ends up being placed in between.

Removing some of the Final Order ships wasn’t really a serious idea. It does need to qualify as “the largest fleet the galaxy has ever known.” It’s silly to imagine the Emperor cackling, “Witness my fully armed forty-seven thousand star destroyers! You’ll never defeat that many star destroyers!” But, going to trouble to paint out some of them won’t really make anything any better.

nl0428’s mockup is what got me thinking about Kijimi today, incidentally.

I agree, that’s real nice!

Here’s another stab at the crawl. The first line needs replacing…

A new hope has been kindled in the galaxy. To suffocate a growing uprising, the tyrannical First Order has silenced communication between neighboring systems.

As Rey, sole heir to the Jedi, continues her training, General Leia Organa has dispatched her brave agents across the stars to unite the disparate rebelling worlds in the name of Resistance.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar, chasing whispers of a hidden power that would allow him to destroy any threat to his rule…

Hmmm… maybe not a bad or worst idea, but why not just paint out half the destroyers in the Final Order?

What will they blow up next? The galaxy? The UNIVERSE?

I’m probably not going to move the Han scene up like that because it doesn’t seem to me that the following scene bears the change believably. 😕
I wish it worked better.

I’ll have to think and stuff about how to structure the post-duel scenes. I guess Kijimi’s destruction really can be pretty much snipped with few lateral effects. This makes it feel more like the First Order and Final Order were meant to come together in the end, rather than “Muwhahaha, that was just a false start and HERE is the REAL doomsday machine!”

Here’s the current state of the crawl. The first sentence is temporary and needs something more inspired. And the second paragraph needs another clause. Not sure if “rumored” could be replaced with something like “stashed.”

Episode IX
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
The flame of rebellion burns. To suffocate a growing uprising, the tyrannical First Order has silenced communication between neighboring systems.

General Leia Organa has dispatched her brave agents across the stars to unite the disparate rebelling worlds in the name of Resistance.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar, chasing whispers of a rumored Imperial fleet that would allow him to destroy any threat to his power…

Jamesleaf, thanks! Pedantry makes for a good end result.

Ed, love the sig.

Han wears his dice around his neck when he appears to Kylo Ren in TROS.

And I’d love to (see someone) edit it into Episode X (through XII).

We will have to let it sit and see if it… ferments? I do like the idea and would prefer it, as long as I‘m wrong about the healing scene feeling wrong being made to follow Kylo resolving himself.

Yep, and there’s that idea coming around again. I like it a lot, but I still feel like Driver’s acting after being stabbed feels like it’s pre-Han conversation, not post. But again, it’s hard to imagine whether it would have felt that way in the theater.

nl0428’s restructure of the post-Leia death section of the movie allows for removing the destruction of Kijimi, along with the sole pre-FO-personnel-getting-involved-as-lead-by-Pryde interior glimpse of one of the Final Order destroyers.

The destroyers will all still have those big guns mounted, but nothing in the movie would need to spell out “THESE ARE MINI DEATH STARS” or actually destroy yet another planet.

Any thoughts about this? In this order, it does make it look like Ben was standing around for a while, and we lose the direct transition from the crew reacting to Leia’s death to him dealing with it. I guess a restructure wouldn’t even technically be needed to remove Kijimi. Just have Palpatine say “come to me on Exegol, General Pryde,” and go to Poe praying to Leia. (That’s not sarcastic, he’s interceding to her for help even if it’s symbolic; we all do it.)

Excellent thoughts, you all. Perhaps simply using the establishing shots of the forest may be nice enough of an addition to the opening. Truth be told I never had an issue with the opening scene as it was.

And I won’t be using the Palptine broadcast.

idir_hh said:

I think a combination of shot 2, Chase Adams’ establishing shots https://youtu.be/bVM5aOUbRdk and Vader’s Castle would work perfectly.

Yeah, that’s very nice. I still think it seems a little weird to see him on the bridge for a second. If the helmet scene were moved there, it’d be perfect. As long as the consensus ends up saying that’s the way to go rather than leaving it during or after Rey trains.